Serenity Prayers: Prayers, Poems, and Prose to Soothe Your Soul

By June Cotner

Serenity Prayers is a lovely and timeless collection of prayers, prose, and poems that leaves readers feeling relaxed, peaceful, hopeful, and encouraged. It's a thoughtful resource for facing everyday challenges.

Excerpt from the book:
"A Clear Midnight
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,
Night, sleep, death and the stars."
--Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Features selections from Mitch Albom, Emily Dickinson, William Penn, Rumi, Carl Sandburg, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and William Butler Yeats.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jan 13, 2015
• ISBN: 9781449460969

June Cotner

June Cotner is the author of the celebrated Graces, Bedside Prayers, Get Well Wishes, Animal Blessings and Family Celebrations. She lives with her husband, two wayward dogs, and two stray cats in Poulsbo, Washington, just outside of Seattle.

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CONTENTS

Thanks

Letter to Readers

one

SERENITY

Joy

Welcoming Angels

A Clear Midnight

Let Us Spend One Day as Deliberately as Nature

An Ordinary Day

I Must Walk Again the Wooded Path

The Gift I Give Myself

When I Dance, I Dance

Drop Thy Still Dews of Quietness

Listen

Be Still

Mining the Heart

Serenity Is Not

two

FAITH

When I’m Weary

Angel Embrace

Win or Lose, I Will Survive

You Must Believe

Renewal

Consolation

The Kaleidoscope of Life

Let Nothing Disturb You

Prayer for Protection

three

COURAGE AND HOPE

Living in Hope

Hope

Contentment’s Recipe

Climbing the Jade Mountain

Building Bravery

Yes

Seeds

four

RELAXATION

Sometimes, in a Summer Morning

Let Your Soul Create a Sanctuary

Windchimes

No Hurry

Sanctuary

How the Rose Works

Hammock

five

REFLECTIONS

Chasseurcistic

The World We Make

Success

Forgiveness

Is It So Small a Thing

Passion

Requiem for My Sister

The Lame Goat

Of Consequence

It Will Pass

Unconditional Dividends

I Saw That It Was Good

Realizations

Enigma

Clouds That Pass

The Songs Along the Way

six

JOY AND GRATITUDE

The Cup of Life

Listen,

Nevertheless;

Humility

Gravy

Precious Moments

Take Nothing for Granted

Dawn’s Grace

My Beautiful Day

Going Through the Motions

Gratitude

No Longer Forward nor Behind

Invocation

Everyday Blessings

seven

PRAYERS

Psalm for the Meaning of Life

Live Quietly

Poet’s Compline

Hindu Prayer

A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Prayer for Perspective

On This Day

I Pray Today

eight

INSPIRATION

My Symphony

Epiphany

The Way Home

Tomorrow Is Not Promised

The Journey

Writer’s Colony, Spring

I Can Believe in Fairies

As If Forever . . .

I Believe

It’s All Good

The Gift

Pippa’s Song

Permissions and Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also By June Cotner

THANKS

The idea for Serenity Prayers came about when I was talking with my friend Anna Johnson about my prayers and blessings books. Anna was feeling particularly frazzled and said, I could use something called Serenity Prayers right now! Thank you, Anna! Here it is.

I was excited about the possibility of creating a book in which the selections would actually help us feel more serene and at peace within ourselves and our circumstances. I sent out a call for submissions to my nine hundred–plus regular contributors and placed an ad in Poets and Writers.

Initially, I considered more than three thousand submissions for Serenity Prayers and found many other possible selections from my extensive library of inspiring books. I narrowed down my favorites to two hundred selections. I knew that the final book would contain a little over one hundred selections; truly, I had a good problem— too many great selections! My deepest