Four youngsters lead the way in a lively, colorful romp through the letters of the alphabet. Lighthearted rhyming verse and joyful illustrations combine to teach children the alphabet and introduce them to their spiritual world. With an emphasis on positive interaction with all creatures and the natural environment, this book will invite discussion and inspire the imaginations of children of all faiths.
Francisco de Osuna (c. 1492-c. 1540) Spanish Franciscan and mystic, wrote a series of maxims as a practical guide for recollection. These were arranged into a series of Spiritual Alphabets, this being the third.
Beautifully illustrated with jewel-tone paintings, Good Night God is a restful story sure to soothe a tired child to sleep. Starting with the setting of the sun and the ending of a day, a young boy starts his nighttime rituals that include bidding good night to all his favorite and familiar animal friends and his parents. Ending with a child's anticipation of another day filled with adventure, the young boy shares a special goodnight prayer with his Creator. Good Night God is the third collaborative effort from best-selling author and illustrator duo, Holly Bea and Kim Howard. Their first project, Where Does God Live?, has sold more than 125,000 copies. Good Night God is a warm and comforting story filled with nighttime rituals and bedtime preparations that children can relate to.
The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.
A modern, one of a kind ABC book designed to promote confidence and self-love. The Inner Rainbow Project's ABC is a cadence of empowering words carefully chosen to ignite the heartfire in people of all ages. Created with gift-giving in mind, the book has a page to add your own dedication and makes a perfect gift for birthdays, showers or anytime you want to remind someone how special they are (including yourself!) Much more than just a book, Inner Rainbow Project's ABC is a complete learning experience. It includes a downloadable dictionary and learning guide with 100+ activities, exercises and questions for parents, teachers and counselors to use to create a holistic learning experience (details in the book). A percentage of the profits of each book will be donated to families in need and organizations aimed at empowering girls. To learn more about the currently highlighted cause, visit: innerrainbowproject.com/giving-back I created this book as a gift for my daughter to help her hold strong to her ability to freely express her true self. My wish for her is the same as for everyone who holds this book. I hope these words fill your mind and heart and help you stay connected to the unique spark of light inside you. Love, Carly WORDS HAVE POWER
In Mercy & Melons, each letter of the alphabet calls forth two words: a word that celebrates an ordinary thing, and another word that names a holy quality about God. Those pairings speak to each other. For those who pay attention to those pairings, they discover something about prayer and about God. This companion guide to Mercy & Melons offers a practical guide to living and exploring and praying those pairings in our daily life--as we look for beauty and hope in the “ordinary” things around us. Each of the 26 chapters focuses on four ways to explore those pairings: Ask Practice Implement Center “Praying the alphabet allows us to be thorough in our prayers because each letter conjures up something we might not otherwise have remembered: mercy, melons. Suddenly, we can taste both.” Use this companion along with Mercy & Melons or as its own guide to prayer, for a retreat, for Lent, or any time you want to explore praying in new ways.
"Judaism has always regarded Hebrew as a sacred language, the medium of divine communication. And its letters are no ordinary forms. The very word for letter, ot, means sign or wonder ... reveals the spirituality and power of all 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, from aleph, which signifies creative energy, to tav, symbolizing wholeness and joy. Each concise, historical, and poetic letter profile, written by Judaica scholar Edward Hoffman, is accompanied by a lustrous illustration wrought in hues of olive, blue, and silver ... this insightful meditation delves into the rich mystical heritage of the letters, offering a modern link to ancient times, when contemplating the Hebrew alphabet could enlighten the inmost soul."--Publisher's description.
A personal and cultural exploration of silence and its value in our lives—“[an] artful book, mixing autobiography, travel writing, meditation, and essay” (Independent, UK). In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, and beautifully written book, Maitland describes how she began to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. Maitland also delves deep into the rich cultural history of silence, exploring its significance in fairy tale and myth, its importance to the Western and Eastern religious traditions, and its use in psychoanalysis and artistic expression. Her story culminates in her building a hermitage on an isolated moor in Galloway. “Her book is probably unique in its subject, and timely, because good, healing silence is becoming hard to find, and we may not know we need it” (Guardian, UK).
