Today I am offering the book: Comfort Prayers by June Cotner. This is a timeless collection compiled by June Cotner, that brings hope, encouragement, and inspiration. A thoughtful book that will calm the soul and lead to a path of healing and recovery. This was a gift after a retreat that was enjoyable to read, but we just need no longer.
Following are some excerpts:
WHERE I’M BOUND
I am looking for comfort.
They tell me all I have to do is ask
and you will help me.
Simply.
I am in need of peace.
They urge me to turn to you
and you will grant my wish.
Silently.
I am searching for happiness.
They tell me to open my heart
and you will fill it with love.
Sweetly.
I am listening and
I promise to accept your truth.
Sincerely.
--Lori Eberhardy
We find our way in the dark
using light from the lives of others.
Their sufferings and celebrations
are like constellations in the midnight sky,
orienting patterns above the horizon.
Tracing their paths through the night,
we connect our stories to one another;
circling together, we turn toward morning.
--Reverend Lynn James
Birth is a beginning
And death a destination.
And life is a journey:
From childhood to maturity
And youth to age;
From innocence to awareness
And ignorance to knowing;
And then, perhaps, to wisdom;
From weakness to strength
Or strength to weakness—
And often back again;
From health to sickness
And back, we pray, to health again;
From offense to forgiveness
From loneliness to love,
From joy to gratitude,
From pain to compassion,
And grief to understanding—
From fear to faith;
From defeat to defeat to defeat—
Until, looking backward or ahead,
We see that victory lies
Not at some high place along the way,
But in having made the journey, stage by stage,
A sacred pilgrimage.
Birth is a beginning
And death a destination.
And life is a journey,
A sacred pilgrimage—
To life everlasting.
--Rabbi Alvin I. Fine
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