God at the Corners: The Turning Points of Life

Steve Pitt is a Toronto-based freelance writer and an award-winning journalist. He has written many young adult and children's books, including Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox.

The title of this collection of 56 short worship services is based on
Psalm 59:10, which has been translated as “The God of my Mercy shall
meet me at the corners.” The Rev. Robert A. Wallace says he chose that
verse because “God meets us in those life events that become turning
points, crossroads, corners. They are times of joy, sorrow, dilemma,
rites of passage.”

The collection is designed for two types of worship: to provide
ready-made liturgy for people who do not have time to prepare their own
devotional services, and for private meditation. The worship cycle
starts in September and takes the congregation through an entire church
year. Four extra messages dedicated to the specific celebrations of
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Lent, and Easter are included at the back. The
book’s spiral binding is ideal for leading worship because it stays
open on a lectern. The format is equally useful because each service can
be

read from start to finish without having to turn pages.

Rev. Wallace has more than four decades of pastoral ministry
experience and several books to his credit. Most of the messages
presented in this collection are about retirement, aging, learning to be
a senior, going home (death), recuperation, and church merger—themes
familiar to most Protestant congregations these days.