Affirmations, Blessings, Prayers and Inspired Ideas for Life's Journey
You gain strength, courage, and confidence
By every experience in which
You really stop to look fear in the face.
You are able to say to yourself,
“I lived through this horror.
I can take the next thing that comes along.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
This post is an excerpt from The Woman’s Book of Prayer by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.
I was missing something
a laying on of hands
not a man
laying on
not my mama/holding me tight/saying I’m always gonna be her girl
not a laying on of bosom and womb a laying on of hands
the holiness of myself released
I sat up one nite walking a boarding house screaming/crying/the ghost of another woman who was missing what I was missing
I wanted to jump up outta my bones
& be done with myself
leave me alone
& go on in the wind
it was too much
I fell into a numbness
til the only tree I did see
took me up in her branches
held me in the breeze
made me dawn dew
that chill at daybreak
the sun wrapped me up swinging rose light everywhere
the sky laid over me like a million men
I was cold/I was burning up/a child
& endlessly weaving garments for the moon
with my tears
I found god in myself
& I loved her/I loved her fiercely
—Ntozake Shange
This post is an excerpt from The Woman’s Book of Prayer by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.
O, mighty Lord, I pray
That You will be my shield,
just as You protected St. Joan of Arc in battle.
As I do battle against ignorance, cruelty, and injustice,
through Your unending love,
I pray that You will deliver me from my enemies
and that You will grant me goodness and steadfastness,
so that I might lead others to do Your will
and glorify Your Name.
Through the power of Christ, our Lord. Amen.
—Eighteenth Century Schoolgirl Prayer
This post is an excerpt from The Woman’s Book of Prayer by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.
Make me strong in spirit
Courageous in action
Gentle of heart
Let me act in wisdom
Conquer my fear and doubt
Discover my own hidden gifts
Meet others with compassion
Be a source of healing energies
And face each day with hope and joy
—Abby Willowroot, silversmith and priestess
This post is an excerpt from The Woman’s Book of Prayer by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.
You may encounter many defeats,
But you must not be defeated.
In fact, it may be necessary
To encounter the defeats,
So you can know who you are,
What you can rise from,
How you can still come out of it.
—Maya Angelou
This post is an excerpt from The Woman’s Book of Prayer by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.
Faithful virgin and glorious martyr, St. Philomena, who works so many miracles on behalf of the poor and sorrowing, have pity
on me. Thou knowest the multitude and diversity of my needs.
Behold me at thy feet, full of misery, but full of hope. I entreat thy
charity, O great saint! Graciously hear me and obtain from God
a favorable answer to the request which I now humbly lay before
thee…(Here mention your petition.) I am firmly convinced that
through thy merits, through the scorn, the sufferings, and the
death thou didst endure, united to the merits of the Passion and
death of Jesus, thy Spouse, I shall obtain what I ask of thee, and in
the joy of my heart I will bless God, who is admirable in His saints.
Amen.
St. Philomena, powerful with God, pray for us.
—Catholic Liturgy
This post is an excerpt from The Woman’s Book of Prayer by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.
Dear God,
I have many problems in my life
That I don’t know the answer to,
But I trust that you do.
Please guide me in the way
That is best and gives me wisdom and strength.
May your will be done! Amen.
—Katrina Brohn
This post is an excerpt from The Woman’s Book of Prayer by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.
When you get into a tight place
And everything goes against you,
Till it seems as though you could not
Hang on a minute longer,
Never give up then,
For that is just the place and time
That the tide will turn.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe
Patience is the key.
Patience.
If you learn nothing else from meditation,
You will learn patience.
Patience is essential
For any profound change.
—Henepola Gunaratana
This post is an excerpt from The Woman’s Book of Prayer by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.
There are the waves
and there is the wind,
seen and unseen forces.
Everyone has these same elements
in their lives, the seen and unseen:
karma and free will.
‘how are you going to handle what you have?’
You are riding the karmic wave
underneath and the wind can shift.
Everyone must take what they see
and deal with that which is unseen.
—Kuan Yin
This post is an excerpt from The Woman’s Book of Prayer by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.
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