The Prayers of Others

The Prayers of Others
Author: David Keplinger
Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2006
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

The U.S. merchant marine played a critical, though often overlooked, role in World War II. This historical text provides a brief narrative of each of the recorded attacks on American-flagged merchant ships, as well as an accounting of the men and the ships, which were a part of this worldwide conflict. In addition to the wealth of data on the ships, their crews and cargoes, this text depicts the exciting and often violent story of the hundreds of enemy attacks on convoys and lone merchant vessels. Evident within the narrative is the gallantry and sacrifice of naval gun crews and the merchant crewmen.

Gratitude Prayers

Gratitude Prayers
Author: June Cotner
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2013-02-12
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1449421768

"Gratitude Prayers is an uplifting collection of inspiring prayers, reflective poems, and motivating quotes that will open you to experience more joy and wonder in life. In this gracious anthology, June Cotner offers more than 100 motivational selections that remind you to embrace each and every day with abundance and thankfulness. Gratitude Prayers includes the voices of classic visionaries such as Rumi, Anne Frank, Walt Whitman and Helen Keller, whose words mingle eloquently alongside contemporary writers such as Michael S. Glaser and Barbara Crooker. The writers in this exuberant book share how to seek out tiny moments of joy, which will point the way toward finding the good in every situation."--Publisher.

Dog Blessings

Dog Blessings
Author: June Cotner
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1577316169

With heartwarming, funny, silly, and sad tributes, "Dog Blessings" honors the special connection between people and their canine friends. The essays collected here wax eloquent on subjects ranging from dog days at the beach to the lives of rescue and shelter dogs.

Breath of Joy

Breath of Joy
Author: Danna Faulds
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2013-11-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9780974410692

Garden Blessings

Garden Blessings
Author: June Cotner
Publisher: Cleis Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2014-05-13
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1936740818

Garden Blessings is an eloquent tribute to the wonders of the garden, a place where our souls are nourished and memories grown. June Cotner’s books comprise a balance of about 20 percent classic and famous writers and 80 percent lesser-known, award-winning writers, uncovering many selections not found anywhere else. Ranging from childhood memories of planting and harvesting to celebrations of the changing seasons to contemplation on the joyful art of gardening, Garden Blessings is a moving collection of poems, prayers, and reflections that reminds us of what really matters -- making and sharing memories. Our gardens grow us, and this collection of readings takes us down a path of pleasure. The overriding intention of Garden Blessings is to provide a heartwarming, spiritually focused collection of uplifting prayers, prose, and poems that share a common joy and appreciation for the love of gardening and the many blessings that gardens bring to our lives. June Cotner, a best-selling inspirational author, has gathered a bounty of garden blessings here, offering gems of wisdom that remind the reader and gardener in all of us just how much we learn from our gardens.

Prayers of a Young Poet

Prayers of a Young Poet
Author: Mark S. Burrows
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1612612911

This volume marks the first translation of these prayer-poems into English. Originally written in 1899, Rilke wrote them upon returning to Germany from his first trip to Russia. His experience of the East shaped him profoundly. He found himself entranced by Orthodox churches and monasteries, above all by the icons that seemed to him like flames glowing in dark spaces. He intended these poems as icons of sorts, gestures that could illumine a way for seekers in the darkness. As Rilke here writes, "I love the dark hours of my being, / for they deepen my senses."

The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be

The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be
Author: Brian Doyle
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2016-10-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814646751

Proems, taut tales, small stories with rhythm and blues and grace and bruise and laughter between the lines. Brian Doyle’s The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be is a book of cadenced notes on the swirl of miracle and the holy of attentiveness; a book about children and birds, love and grief and everything alive, which is to say all prayers.

Comfort Prayers

Comfort Prayers
Author: June Cotner
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2010-04-22
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1449400019

“A collection of poems and prayers from poets and spiritual writers for those who have suffered or been through hard times..” —Spirituality & Practice “Thy fate is the most common fate of all. Into each life some rain must fall..” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This simple quote illustrates the truism that no one is immune from challenges in life. As a gift book or self-purchase, Comfort Prayers is a collection of prayers and poems that offers solace and encouragement. At different times in life, everyone encounters sorrow, adversity, or a sense of being overwhelmed. Consider Comfort Prayers that motivating friend, wise inner voice, or soothing balm you can turn to when times get tough. The words within are the sage thoughts of those who have survived their own trials and then eloquently imparted their wisdom in the form of a prayer, poem, or prose. Carefully chosen from more than 4,000 submissions from writers worldwide and more than 1,000 inspirational books, this timeless collection, compiled by author June Cotner, will bring hope, healing, and encouragement to its readers. Like June’s successful inspirational collection Graces, this book is composed of 80 percent material from contemporary writers and 20 percent from classic and famous writers, such as Louisa May Alcott, William Wordsworth, and Eleanor Roosevelt. The result is a thoughtful collection that will calm the soul and lead to a path of healing and recovery.

Poems and Prose

Poems and Prose
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1954
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

In his poetry Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 89) sought to discover afresh the potentialities of language, and to that end developed his idiosyncratic theories of instress, inscape and sprung rhythm. Hopkins's verse is also informed by his religious beliefs; having converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1866, he became a Jesuit priest eleven years later. However, his poetry is free from a sense of religious dogma, and instead offers a whole hearted involvement with all aspects of life, a love of nature and a search for a unifying sacramental view of creation. His best known poems include 'The Wreck of the Deutschland', 'The Windhover', 'Pied Beauty', 'Spring and Fall', 'Carrion Comfort' and 'Harry Ploughman'.

YOUNGER and WISER

YOUNGER and WISER
Author: Gene Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-11-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9780998324005

A unique fusion of three literary formats that gives poetry mainstream appeal. This innovative book combines storytelling and wisdom phrases with contemporary poetry to form a universally appealing literary masterpiece.