Prayers for Healing by Maggie Oman Shannon Summary
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In this daily sanctuary of 365 global prayers, Maggie Oman Shannon guides your healing journey across physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions. Praised as "soul enriching" during life's darkest moments, this daybook transforms personal practice - what healing ritual will you discover tomorrow?
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When the World Goes Silent, the Soul Begins to Speak
Have you ever noticed how crisis strips away everything except what matters most? In hospital waiting rooms, on sleepless nights, during moments when life cracks open-that's when we reach for something beyond ourselves. Maggie Oman Shannon's "Prayers for Healing" exists for precisely these moments, though it offers far more than emergency spiritual relief. This collection of prayers spanning centuries and traditions has quietly become a sanctuary for over half a million readers worldwide, translated into 28 languages. What makes these ancient and modern words so powerful? Perhaps because they speak to the part of us that knows healing begins not with fixing what's broken, but with remembering what remains whole. Prayer operates in a realm where logic cannot follow. It's the whisper we speak when no one's listening, the plea we make to forces we cannot name, the gratitude that wells up unbidden. Shannon's collection honors this mysterious territory by refusing to limit prayer to any single tradition. Here, a 16th-century Catholic mystic sits beside a Buddhist monk, a Sufi poet converses with a Native American elder, and contemporary voices join the chorus that has echoed through human history since we first looked up at stars and wondered. What emerges from this diversity isn't confusion but recognition. The Dalai Lama notes in his introduction that inner peace discovered through prayer must flow outward into service-contemplation and action form an unbreakable bond. This insight appears across traditions: Martin Luther King Jr.'s spiritual practice fueled his civil rights work, Dorothy Day's contemplative life inspired her service to the poor. Prayer becomes not an escape from the world but a deeper engagement with it, transforming both the one who prays and everything they touch.
Winter's Dark Medicine and the Wisdom of Dormancy
Spring's Insistent Green and the Permission to Be Human
Summer's Generous Heart and the Courage to Flourish
Autumn's Letting Go and the Harvest of Forgiveness
The Circle Completes Itself and Grace Arrives Unbidden
Your Prayer Awaits and the Journey Begins Again
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"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
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