A Child's Book of Blessings and Prayers
Collected and Introduced By: Eliza Blanchard
Product Code: 4753
ISBN: 9781558965355
Publisher: Skinner House
Publication Date: 6/13/08
Pages: 40
Size: 7 X 7
Binding Information: Hard cover
Availability: In stock.
Price: $12.00
Rich treasury of graces, poems, prayers and blessings drawn from around the world. Selections hve been specially chosen to address the spiritual needs of children and to encourage giving, service and gratitude. Includes words to bless the morning, share at bedtime, honor a birthday, even give thanks for a friend next-door. Each selection is surrounded by engaging and child-friendly, full-color illustrations. This diverse collection, with prayers from Hindu, Sioux, Islamic, Jewish, Christian and Unitarian Universalist traditions, to name only a few, highlights the common threads that can unite people of all faiths. Beautifully illustrated in full color. Ages 4 and up.
For Eliza Blanchard, volunteering as a religious education teacher led to a mid-life career change to become a Unitarian Universalist minister. Ordained in 2004, she is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Grafton and Upton, Massachusetts. A former English teacher, Blanchard resides in Westborough, Massachusetts.
View sample illustrations:
Blackfoot Chant
Christian Prayer
Sioux Prayer
Jewish Blessing
Hindu Blessing
There is a love/
Holding me/
There is a love/
Holding you/
There is a love/
Holding all/
I rest/
in this love.
--Rebecca Parker
At night, I open the window/
and ask the moon to come/
and press its face into mine./
Breathe into me.
—Rumi
Thank you for my friend next door;/
And my friend across the street,/
And please help me to be a friend./
To each and every one I meet.
—Anonymous
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