Prayers for Healing: 365 Blessings, Poems, & Meditations from Around the World (Meditations for Healing, for Readers of Earth Prayers or Pr

I've loved this book for years. I didn't do it the daily devotional way the book is set up. I read through it and marked the ones that I found especially helpful and comforting. I turned to those when times are tough I have given a dozen or so of these books to friends and to pastors. I wrote the dates of my favorites in the fly and encouraged them to add their own to the list. Nearly everyone has told me how helpful the book has been. It's use of prayers from all religions and over hundreds/thousands of yrs helps us to know that our troubles and feelings are not ours alone but have been experienced by others engaged in this experience we call life. It is really a wonderful treasure when the times are really tough. Clarice Bates

I don't usually write reviews but this book of prayers taken from around the world and throughout history is so beautiful and powerfully moving that I had to write to recommend it. Well worth the money - I plan to buy more to give as presents.

I read this book every day. It has enriched my spiritual life tremendously. Now I give it to friends and family. We all have places in our lives and selves that need to be healed-- this book speaks to many of those different dimensions.

I was knee deep in the muck, as they say. My mother had passed away much too early in life for me to make any sense of it, and directly thereafter i was going through a painful divorce. I was bitter. This book is for those of you that believe that God is in all things. That pain is a medium for growth, and as A. Powell Davies would say, " . . . There comes a gentleness, a returning quietness, a restoring stillness. This too is a door to life. Here also is a deepening of meaning - and it can lead to dedication, a going forward to the triumph of the soul, the conquering of the wilderness. And in the process will come a deepening inward knowledge that in the final reckoning, all is well."

If you, or someone you know, needs healing of some sort, this interfaith book of calendar meditations can help; but, even if not, the prayers for the healing of society, the healing of the world, are appropriate for anyone to pray. The selections range from ancient times to modern, some are deeply religious, some are more secular. I got multiple copies of this, two years ago, and I have given away my last copy; now I'm ordering one more, for me. The book is divided by the seasons of the year. It is compact enough to travel easily. Even if you already have a daily devotional book, this is worthwhile as a supplement.