WomanPrayers: Prayers by Women from Throughout History and Around the World
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Overview
This rich blend of prayers, poems, and sayings by women writers and sages from around the world and throughout history offers daily inspiration and delight. Included in this collection are diverse voices ranging from the early Sufi mystic Rabia and the trailblazing Mechtild of Magdeburg, to contemporary poets Denise Levertov, Kathleen Norris, Maya Angelou, Jane Hirshfield, and Mary Oliver. These and many other treasures of women’s wisdom are gathered here from such wide-ranging sources as Celtic blessings, Native American petitions, and Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Hindu, and Chinese prayers.
An expert on spirituality with a remark-able eye for the best inspirational literature, Ford-Grabowsky includes in this collection prayers of praise, thanks, petition, mystical ecstasy, and insight. Her book explores self-discovery, mothering, inner strength, needs, work, gratefulness, spiritual darkness, mysti-cal experience, and love.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780061758683 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Publication date: | 01/17/2024 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 224 |
File size: | 493 KB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Thanks | xiii | |
Introduction | xv | |
Chapter 1 | Finding Myself | 1 |
The Way of the Three Steps: A Native American Way to Begin the Day | ||
The Truth About Myself | ||
How Could I Reject Who I Am? | ||
Lord of Healing | ||
The Monk Stood Beside a Wheelbarrow | ||
Listen | ||
Gestalt at Sixty | ||
Wild longing in my eyes | ||
Prayer | ||
Prelude to The Dance | ||
Grace for My Twenty-Fifth Year | ||
Handicaps | ||
The Well | ||
Order of Melchizedek | ||
Bonsai | ||
I Was Obsessed | ||
Our deepest fear | ||
Lord, not you | ||
Blessed Are You | ||
Be Who You Are | ||
It is by seeking | ||
O Lord, One tiny bit of water | ||
Chapter 2 | The Mother Line | 19 |
Pastoral | ||
The Boston School of Cooking Cookbook | ||
I Have So Much I Can Teach Her | ||
The Meaning of Bones | ||
The Tablecloth | ||
Dying at 31 | ||
Source | ||
Oh, God, thank you for the child I carry | ||
To Jacqueline, Age 2, in Her Great-Grandmother's House | ||
Cost of Living | ||
Prayer for Easy Labor | ||
Consecration | ||
35/10 Sharon Olds to dance at your daughter's wedding | ||
Gift from My Mother | ||
Your Clothes | ||
To Elvira, My Maternal Grandmother | ||
The Turning Point | ||
What Came to Me | ||
The Power in My Mother's Arms | ||
Chains of Fire | ||
Mother of Mothers | ||
Chapter 3 | Gathering Our Inner Strengths | 45 |
Letting Go | ||
A Cedary Fragrance | ||
Self-Giving | ||
Three times each day | ||
From Self-Consciousness to Happiness | ||
Learning to Grow | ||
May you be drenched with the longing for peace | ||
The Last Story | ||
As I light these Sabbath candles | ||
In Pain | ||
Buddhist Vow | ||
Moments of Real Grace | ||
Life in Ravensbruck | ||
Women Who Light Lives | ||
Purnima | ||
We see you | ||
How can you go on sleeping | ||
Breakdown | ||
I Taught Myself to Live Simply | ||
God Alone Suffices | ||
May the Blessing of Rain Be on You | ||
Chapter 4 | Finding Heaven in Mother Earth | 61 |
A vein of sapphires | ||
Sow in me your living breath | ||
His Heart Shone Right Out of His Eyes | ||
Play in this universe | ||
The Seven Directions | ||
The little cares | ||
Earth Teach Me | ||
The Holy may speak to you | ||
The Sapphire | ||
How Should I Fear to Die? | ||
The Stars | ||
The mountain | ||
The Sacred Berry | ||
This Island, This Season | ||
I know I am made from this earth | ||
Spiritual Life | ||
I think everything and everyone slept that afternoon | ||
How shall I begin my song | ||
Earth is crammed with heaven | ||
The Prayer of the Cat | ||
My Lord, Lord of the mountain grove Andal and how could anyone believe | ||
Chapter 5 | For All Our Needs | 75 |
Ti Prego M.P.A. Sheaffer | ||
God our Mother, Living Water | ||
A Prayer for Spiritual Teachers | ||
Brigid's Feast | ||
Give Me Someone | ||
Different Ways to Pray | ||
May I be free from danger | ||
Open our eyes to see our own part | ||
Help in Old Age from the Mother | ||
Make us ready, Lord | ||
Prayer for Village Earth | ||
Prayer for Beauty | ||
Prayer for a Child While Listening to Rachmaninoff | ||
Prayer for Wellness | ||
Metta Prayer | ||
Chapter 6 | At Work | 91 |
A Zen Prayer for Preparing a Meal: How to Stuff a Pepper | ||
Kalighat | ||
You Can Also Pray While You Work | ||
A Pediatrician's Prayer for Perfection | ||
What Must I Do? | ||
Litany of Sorrow for Denying Women Authority | ||
Litany of Blessing for a Woman Taking Authority | ||
I saw God in an instant of time | ||
My Poems | ||
Prayer Before Work | ||
Lord of all the world | ||
Cleaning Rice | ||
Too Much to Do | ||
Radiating Pain | ||
May there always be work | ||
Doing the Best We Can | ||
The Great Work | ||
Go Forward Securely | ||
Chapter 7 | Grateful for Everything | 107 |
Magnificat | ||
Unexpected Blessings | ||
To Sing Is to Praise | ||
Faithfulness | ||
For the Darkness | ||
To Our First Grandmother | ||
Gratitude | ||
Celtic Thanksgiving | ||
All you clear and shimmering waters | ||
Thank you, my dear | ||
Theology | ||
Thank You | ||
I Arise Today | ||
The Flowers | ||
Praise to You Spirit of Fire! | ||
Give Thanks for Everything | ||
Chapter 8 | Out of Darkness | 123 |
Mother Wisdom Speaks | ||
Why Do You Hide Yourself? | ||
Dear God, it is so hard | ||
Passing the Refugee Camp | ||
For Victims of War and Refugees | ||
Lament for September 11, 2001 | ||
The Next Day: 9/12/01 | ||
For the 500th Dead Palestinian: Ibtisam Bozieh | ||
In the Cemetery of Your City: Israel, March 6, 2002 | ||
What Is Happening | ||
Prayer from Auschwitz | ||
Bodhi | ||
Not Without Longing | ||
In the morning | ||
I saw you in the doorway Miriam | ||
From moment to moment | ||
May the angel of God make smooth the road | ||
Psalms of a Laywoman | ||
There is a Brokenness | ||
Chapter 9 | Our Spiritual and Mystical Experience | 143 |
Preparing to Greet the Goddess | ||
Fire in Water | ||
As a silkworm weaves | ||
You | ||
The desert waits | ||
Enter and penetrate | ||
The Sacredness of Time | ||
Speak and Write What You See and Hear! | ||
Dangerous Prayers | ||
Clea--La Chanson de Ma Mie' | ||
The silence is all there is | ||
Oh God, whose true nature I cannot know | ||
With Your Light | ||
When We Stumble and Find It | ||
Mahakranti: The Endtime | ||
Invocation to the Light, December 2001 | ||
I come in the little things | ||
God Everywhere | ||
God is | ||
Beautiful One | ||
A Way In | ||
A Thousand Ways | ||
Chapter 10 | Love | 165 |
And you held me | ||
Black and White Blessing | ||
Balada | ||
I am watching all the roads | ||
Between Words | ||
Do you ever wonder | ||
And so it came | ||
A long time I have lived with you | ||
First Passion | ||
One must go down | ||
To Aphrodite | ||
Who Will Teach Me Now? | ||
The Soul in Love | ||
My Book Was Begun in Love | ||
You Have Come, My Beloved | ||
No Words At All, Just Love | ||
Mira Speaks to Her Lord | ||
A Dying Grandfather's Prayer | ||
To Be an Island in the Sea | ||
In this still moment, Lord | ||
Cold | ||
I Am My Beloved's | ||
All She Needed That Day | ||
To what shall I liken you, Lord? | ||
Index of Authors and Sources | 185 | |
Index of Titles or First Lines | 189 | |
Permissions and Acknowledgments | 193 | |
About the Editor | 199 |