Blessing the Animals: Prayers and Ceremonies to Celebrate God's Creatures, Wild and Tame - Softcover

Lynn L. Caruso

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594732531 ISBN 13: 9781594732539

Publisher: Skylight Paths Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

Take a spiritual journey through this beautiful collection of blessings, prayers and meditations about the creatures wild and tame that inhabit our world. These moving contributions about all types of animals - playful dogs and beloved cats, giant whales and powerful elephants, tiny insects and delicate birds - are drawn from many faith traditions including Native American, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Buddhist. A special section, also, provides animal blessing ceremonies you can use to memorise the loss of a companion animal, offer prayers for an animal suffering illness or injury or simply recognise the spiritual connection we create when we fully appreciate another member of God's creation. This book is a veritable jewel box of comfort and ecstasy reverence and wisdom. It provides powerful testimony to the different ways that animals inspire us to worship our creator.

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Review:

"A jewel box of comfort and ecstasy, reverence and wisdom. Powerful testimony to the different ways that animals inspire us to worship our Creator."
―Sy Montgomery, author of The Wild Out Your Window

“A threshold to a deeper understanding of God.... Allows us to experience the relationships God has created between creatures in this Sacred Circle of life.”
―Rt. Rev. Mark MacDonald, Episcopal bishop of Alaska

“Delightful ... lovely ... timeless.... A book that pet lovers will treasure.”
―Diana L. Guerrero, author of What Animals Can Teach Us about Spirituality; founder of Ark Animals

“Gives voice to the unspoken yet eloquent expressions of prayer and praise offered daily in the Animal Kingdom. The sights and sounds of the poetic imagery linger long after we close this book.”
―Nancy Sohn Swartz, author of In Our Image: God's First Creatures and How Did the Animals Help God?

About the Author:

Lynn L. Caruso is an inspiring educator, writer, parent/child ad­vocate and mother of three children. A contributing writer to Mothering magazine, her work has been published in many other national journals and magazines. Caruso is also the editor of the first-of-its-kind Blessing the Animals: Prayers and Ceremonies to Celebrate God's Creatures, Wild and Tame and Honoring Motherhood: Prayers, Ceremonies & Blessings (both SkyLight Paths).

About this edition

• Publisher: Skylight Paths Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594732531
• ISBN 13: 9781594732539
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Lynn L. Caruso