If you’re like me and suffer from the winter blahs, then Blessings: Prayers and Declarations for a Heartful Life by Julia Cameron may help.
This book
slipped into my life unexpectedly. I was scanning the book table at a church
fair on Mane Island and its red cover caught my eye. Hmmm, Julia Cameron? Didn’t she
write The Artists’ Way? I flipped the book open and sure enough my
speculation was correct. Clearly this book deserves further exploration. I
turned it over and read the blurb on the back cover…‘contains prayers and
declarations that enable those who read them to rejoice with the knowledge that
they are part of a larger whole that holds them in a benevolent and protective
view. With lessons and observations on the nature of gratitude and the power to
change, this book allows us to perceive the secrets of a bountiful existence,
one that is intricate, priceless and insightful.’
Sold, I
thought and bought the book.
Soon Blessings
became part of my bedtime routine.
Each devotional
is brief: begins with a quote from a
famous author—from Rumi to Leo Tolstay to Henry David Thoreau to Hildegard of Bingen to…—and concludes with a reflection related to the quote.
Blessings is
a small book but it’s powerful. I wake with a seed of postivity firmly planted
in my mind.
