The Power of Prayer: Make a Joyful Noise

by Pamela Brode

Overview

Faced with raising two children with disabilities and the loss of her own eyesight, author Pamela Brode experienced seemingly insurmountable hardships in her personal life. Through her discovery of the power of prayer, she rose to meet the challenges confronting her family with remarkable strength and fortitude. Inspired by her experiences, she set out to collect stories from others who had firsthand experience with the transformative power of prayer. The result is The Power of Prayer: Make a Joyful Noise, a heartwarming collection that demonstrates how prayer can assist us in overcoming individual challenges and in effecting social change. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the practical application of prayer, meditation, and spirituality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781618510266
Publisher:	Baha'i Publishing Trust, U.S.
Publication date:	11/13/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	270
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Pamela Brode is the publisher of Fragile X Advocate, an international, bimonthly magazine designed for professionals and parents who work with children, youth, and adults with developmental and learning disabilities associated with fragile X syndrome. A performing artist, playwright, composer, and poet, Pamela also finds time to teach drama and music to children. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Editorial Reviews

Since its foray into trade publishing in 2002, Baha'i Publishing has produced books of increasingly high quality; these two volumes are among five titles on its spring 2006 list. The classic Divine Art of Living, in print since 1944 and expanded and reorganized 20 years ago, is here compiled by Paine and revised by Anne Marie Scheffer. It is a standard anthology of Baha'i scriptural passages on the basics of spiritual life (e.g., trust in God, immortality, prayer, faith, sacrifice, humility, marriage). These passages guide readers in applying a practical spirituality to their lives. As such, the book enters a well-established market for preselected texts on daily spiritual living and complements other books for that audience. Issued simultaneously is Brode's (publisher, Fragile X Advocate) Power of Prayer, a moving discussion of prayer as a universal need of the soul and an instrument of personal and social change. Brode's engaging true accounts of prayer's transformative quality give the book a special attraction (particularly moving is the story of her use of prayer to change an angry nine-year-old girl into a friendly and poised young woman). Because Brode draws on the world's entire spiritual heritage and sets Baha'i sacred texts within that framework, this work will connect with people of many backgrounds, not just Baha'is. Both books, among the better ones on the practical use of prayer and meditation, are recommended as a set for public and religious libraries. If only one is to be purchased, it should be Brode's volume.-William Collins, Library of Congress Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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