Prayers for Healing: 365 Blessings, Poems, & Meditations from Around the World (Meditations for Healing, Sacred Writings)

Prayers for Healing: 365 Blessings, Poems, & Meditations from Around the World (Meditations for Healing, Sacred Writings)

Daily Meditations and Prayers from Around the World Create a tapestry of comfort and inspiration. Maggie Oman creates a healing space for readers in her deeply spiritual book Prayers for Healing: 365 Blessings, Poems, & Meditations from Around the World . During moments that are filled with despair, illnesses, depression, or spiritual longing, Prayers for Healing draws on the power of wise and healing devotionals for reflection and deep mediation. Embrace physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation. Prayers for Healing demonstrates the transformative nature woven through the power of prayer and wisdom, drawing from a select collection of influential spiritual leaders, philosophers and thinkers of our time that include: The Tao Te Ching - The Koran - The Torah - Native American texts - The Bible - Thich Nhat Hanh - Wendell Berry - Jack Kornfield - Rumi - Rainer Maria Rilke - Marian Wright Edelman - Martin Luther King, Jr. - Marianne Williamson Discover the power to heal through many meditation and prayer voices. This interfaith book provides insight from various religious and cultural texts that touches on our pain and inspires the healer within all of us to be reminded of hope and faith so that we may live a deeper, more meaningful, and fully self-expressed life. If you have found that works such as Prayers That Bring Healing , Earth Prayers , Prayers of Hope for Caregivers , Prayers for Hard Times , or Prayers for Hope and Healing have brought inspiration into your life, then this book is an invitation to cementing your inner healer. Rev. Maggie Oman Shannon, M.A. , is an ordained Unity minister, spiritual director, workshop and retreat facilitator, and author of six books including works such as One God , Shared Hope and The Way We Pray , editor of Prayers for Healing and coauthor of A String and a Prayer . In 2000, Oman Shannon founded The New Story, a coaching and consulting business focused on helping people create deeper meaning in their lives. Ordained as a Unity minister in 2014, she has had the honor of serving as the spiritual leader of Unity Spiritual Center of San Francisco since January 2010. Oman Shannon lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter. Prayers for Healing 365 Blessings, Poems, & Meditations from Around the World By Maggie Oman Red/Wheel Weiser, LLC Copyright © 1997 Maggie Oman All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-57324-522-7 Contents FOREWORDINTRODUCTIONLETTER OF THE HEARTWINTERSPRINGSUMMERFALLACKNOWLEDGMENTSINDEX CHAPTER 1      WINTER     December 21      Winter Solstice     In the beginning was the Tao.     All things issue from it;     all things return to it.     To find the origin,     trace back the manifestations.     When you recognize the children     and find the mother,     you will be free of sorrow.     If you close your mind in judgments     and traffic with desires,     your heart will be troubled.     If you keep your mind from judging     and aren't led by the senses,     your heart will find peace.     Seeing into darkness is clarity.     Knowing how to yield is strength.     Use your own light     and return to the source of light.     This is called practicing eternity.     — Lao-Tzu     Translated by Stephen Mitchell      December 22      English novelist George Eliot     (Mary Ann Evans)     dies in 1880     May I reach     That purest heaven, be to other souls     The cup of strength in some great agony,     Enkindle generous ardour, feed pure love,     Be the sweet presence of a good diffused,     And in diffusion ever more intense!     So shall I join the choir invisible     Whose music is the gladness of the world.     — George Eliot      December 23     The tree in winter is like The lines upon my father's face     Or like the paths I tried to take     When I was young searching     For one clear way to understanding.     In every branch I found     A smaller branch leading me     Toward many ends and many sorrows.     Too fragile to bear my weight,     All my branches broke     And I fell to the earth confused.     I saw the tree in winter     Reaching toward the sky     With bare branches tangled     Like so many paths and yet     Each path had a purpose,     Leading back to the roots of the tree.     — Nancy Wood      December 24      Hanukkah     (date varies)     How wonderful, O Lord, are the works of your hands!     The heavens declare Your glory,     the arch of sky displays Your handiwork.     In Your love You have given us the power     to behold the beauty of Your world     robed in all its splendor.     The sun and the starts, the valleys and hills,     the rivers and lakes all disclose Your presence.     The roaring breakers of the sea tell of Your awesome might;     the beasts of the field and the birds of the air bespeak Your wondrous will.     In Your goodness You have made us able to hear     the music of the world. The voices of loved ones     reveal t