Graces电子书

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Thanks

Introduction

1 For Any Gathering

Morning Grace

Sanskrit Salutation to the Dawn

Grace at Breakfast

Blessed Be

Grace for Dieting

An Early Saint’s Prayer

Our Purpose in Life

Prayer for Our Home

Family Prayer

A Hylander’s Blessing

The 23rd Psalm Revisited

We Close Our Eyes

Mountain Lullaby

A Group Grace

I Thank Thee

Celebration

Blessing

2 Seasonal Graces

Psalm of Praise

Spring

A Spring Crocus

Lilacs

A Summer Grace

The Island, This Season

Winter Vision

December Blessing

Litany for Light

3 For Holidays

A Gaelic Blessing for Saint Patrick’s Day

Easter Invocation

Easter Song

Easter Meal Grace

For Mother’s Day

Memorial Day Picnic Grace

For Father’s Day

Grandparents’ Day

Halloween Grace

Thanksgiving Day Prayer

Thanksgiving Blessings

Thanksgiving Grace

Advent

Chanukah Message

Chanukah Lights

Christmas Eve Dinner

Credo at Christmas

Christmas Come

Christmas Prayer

A New Year’s Eve Prayer

A New Year

4 For Family Gatherings

A Wedding Toast

The Eve of a Wedding

Wedding Rehearsal Dinner Grace

The Wedding Feast

For a Wedding or Anniversary

Wedding Anniversary Grace

An Anniversary Celebration

New Baby

Milestone Birthday Grace

Birthdays

I Wonder If God Has a Birthday

For Our Children

For a Family Reunion

Northwest Indian Memorial on Death

The Circle of Life

The Toast

For Friends and Family

5 Native American Graces

Chief Seattle

Native American Prayer

Sioux Indian Saying

6 Traditional Graces

A Breakfast Prayer

We Thank Thee

Thank You, God, for Everything

God Is Great

A Traditional Blessing

The Lord’s Prayer

The 23rd Psalm

7 For Children

A Child’s Grace

A Breakfast Grace

Prayer from England

Our Thanks

All Things Bright and Beautiful

A Child’s Prayer

God’s in His Heaven

8 For the Earth

Inuit Song

Prayer Based on Psalm 19

Call of the Wild

God’s Handiwork

Teach Us

Garden Credo

The Refuge of the Glen

Trees!

Thanks to the Sun

9 Musical Graces

His Sheep Am I

Morning Has Broken

Canticle of Brother Sun

Scottish Grace

Doxology

Mystery

’Tis a Gift to Be Simple

10 Short Graces

Live Each Day

Bless Our Hearts

Earth and Sky

With a Wineglass (A Grace)

Lift the Veil

Always with You

Within Us

I Believe

Eternity

Heartfelt

Remembering Our Gift

Your Gift

11 From Around the World

English Prayer

German Prayer

An Irish Blessing

The Saint Francis Prayer

Prayer from the Netherlands

Japanese Prayer

Ancient Chinese Prayer

12 For Peace and Justice

Tolerance

A Peace Prayer

Sonnet to Freedom: A World’s Prayer

Final Prayer for New Genesis

13 For Contemplation

God’s Love

For Those Who Live Alone

Slow Me Down, Lord!

It Was Said with Such Authority

This Is Life

This Is It

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher