Glad Day: Daily Meditations for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender PeopleWith this inspiring book of meditations, every day brings a reminder of "the wholeness and beauty of our nature, of the glad spirit that dances in each one of us." Addressing the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, Glad Day speaks to the issues that touch everyone, regardless of sexual orientation: change, fear, self-disclosure, faith in a power greater than ourselves, success and failure, and openness to ourselves and others. Written with a poet's grace, these daily meditations are interwoven with reference to the transforming experiences of coming out and of recovery. As the meditations foster a "daily conversation with the Spirit," they lovingly conjure the mutual trust and compassion that lead to a rich, fulfilling life. |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 96 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all 9.
Página 96 - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3 . Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5 . Admitted to God , to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove...
Página 96 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Página 60 - ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul ; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
Página 92 - I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks— who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer,
Página 92 - The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . nothing can make up for excess or for the lack of definiteness.
Página 92 - Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
Página 92 - The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Glad Day: Daily Meditations for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People Hazelden Meditations Series |
| Autor | Joan Larkin |
| Editora | Hazelden Publishing, 1998 |
| ISBN | 1568381891, 9781568381893 |
| Número de páginas | 400 páginas |
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