A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles Reviews
A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles
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Now in paperback, A Grateful Heart is a tool to help readers reclaim and enrich the tradition of pausing before the evening meal to give thanks. Drawing from a range of religious and cultural practices, these 365 blessings celebrate friendship, love, peace, reconciliation, the body, nature, joy, and appreciation of the moment. This illustrated feast for the mind includes quotations from Martin Luther King Jr., Thich Nhat Hanh, Gandhi, Rumi, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Denise Levertov, the Bible, and the Tao Te Ching.
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This diverse collection of beautiful prayers and blessings contains themes which are relevant to whatever gathering I’m a part of. I have used the blessings to begin meetings, as part of a presentation, at family mealtime and for my personal inspriation. I have bought my own copy and have given two other copies as gifts. The language of each blessing speaks very powerfully.
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This book is much like Gibrahn’s “The Prophet” in that whatever passage you turn to, it is the correct one for your meal’s blessing. Whether it is a contemprary figure or Buddah, the author has compiled these prayers to give maximal contemplation without imposing secular overtones to the thought. I have just given away my copy to a close friend who immediately became absorbed.
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The entire collection is outstanding, but as we sat down for my grandson’s eleventh birthday dinner, I flipped to page 7 and found the perfect reflection on the wondrous gift of being, in itself. It blessed our celebration.
Review by Fred W Hood for A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles
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For well over 5 years I have been blessed by well-know and well-documented M. J. Ryan’s collections of prayers and quotations of deep wisdom! Many of these have been left out of collections, such as, St. Ignatius’ Prayer, ee cummings’ “i thank you,God” Walter Rauschenbusch’s deeper prayers, Daphne Rose Kingma’s many faces, Thomas Merton, May Sarton, W B Yeats, etc. Only recently I searched and found 12 Native American Indian Prayers.
“So when Life Fades, as the fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame.”
(Native American Prayer”
One of the most succintly worded themes of the book is by Simon Greenberg: “One does not need to fast for days, meditate for hours at a time to experience the sense of sublime mystery which constantly envelops us.” Represented are the unique riches from Seven Biblical quotes, The Buddha, Einstein, and Schweitzer!
Where else could one find such variety of Faith, mood, and/or source of healing alogside life-changing examples of Prayer, and Wisdom? They seem to be profoundly combined and edited! From a collector of Jewels of Poetry, Prayers, and Wisdom! …Retired Chaplain Fred W Hood
Review by Sally Wood for A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles
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This is a nice collection of poems, blessings and short devotionals and they are categorized. I was looking for a book with more traditional blessings that appeal to a house with three teenagers and these selections are just a little too “devotional” and not quite what I was expecting.