Love So Amazing : 40 reflections on my favourite hymns

"Hymns are prayers in our pockets", writes Pam Rhodes, expressing how hymns help us to respond to God. Pam brings together reflections on some of her favourite hymns.Drawing on her experience of presenting Songs of Praise and sharing the stories of hymn writers past and present, she helps us to make use of their words in expressing our joys and sorrows to God, and finding hope and inspiration in them. Whatever our circumstances, these hymns turn us again to the God who created, knows and sustains us with that "love so amazing" described in the immortal words of hymn writer Isaac Watts. Pam Rhodes has presented the BBC's Songs of Praise for many years.She has written numerous novels, including With Hearts and Hymns and Voices, Fisher of Men, and Casting the Net.