Stillness: A deep silence and quiet calm, bringing feelings of peace, solace, contentment and serenity.
You may need this book
if you have ever felt afraid, unsure, anxious or uncertain…
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if you have ever had sleepless nights, faced difficult decisions or craved an answer to life’s many mysteries…
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if you are on a journey of self-discovery…
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to start to trust and accept, forgive and let go, with love and peace.
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if you want to rest or pause - if you want Stillness.
In Stillness Through My Prayers, Sister Stan shares simple, profound and calming prayers that she herself uses to help her achieve Stillness – that most elusive and treasured state of mind.
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STILLNESS:THROUGH MY PRAYERS
A TRANSWORLD IRELAND BOOK: 9781848270619
Version 1.0 Epub ISBN 9781409082279
First published in Great Britain and Ireland TownHouse, 2006
Transworld Ireland edition published 2009
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Cover
About the Book
Title Page
1. Beyond Fear
2. Trust
3. Letting Go
4. Mystery
5. Truth
6. Awakening
7. Acceptance
8. Stillness
About the Author
Also by Sister Stan
Copyright
Sister Stanislaus Kennedy is an Irish Sister of Charity and the founder of Focus Ireland, the Inaugural Council of Young Social Innovation, Ireland, and the Sanctuary. She has been instrumental in developing and implementing social-service programmes that have benefited thousands of people in need throughout Ireland and Europe. For this work, she has received many awards, including Honorary Degrees of Law from Trinity College Dublin, the National University of Ireland and the Open University, as well as a presidential medal from New York University.
She has written four bestselling books, Now is the Time, Gardening the Soul, Seasons of the Day and Stillness Through My Prayers, and is currently working on her latest book.
Help me arise today like the morning sun, feeling
safe, protected, watched over, cared for.
Help me arise today with courage to ascend
beyond the fray, regardless of difficulties, threats
assailing me, criticisms meeting me, knowing
nothing can destroy the gift of who I am.
Help me make something of this day, before it is
too late, before letting it go. Let me give myself to
the joy of the day before leaving it.
To know the light we must know the dark.
To be full we must be empty.
Bring me comfort, bring me support, help me to
feel safe, give me something to hold on to.
There is never a moment that isn’t an opportunity
to create something new.
There is never a moment when there isn’t
something to let go.
There is never a moment that isn’t an opportunity
to make space for the new by letting go
of the old.
Grant me;
in time of fortitude, sturdiness;