Honoring Motherhood

Make a spiritual journey through this beautiful collection of blessings, prayers and meditations honoring motherhood¿a path both beautiful and terrifying, a great joy and a vessel for sorrow, an inheritance and at times a loss. These moving meditations for all mothers¿traditional, single, adopted, bereaved, foster and step mothers¿are drawn from many faith traditions, including Native American, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Buddhist. Exploring the cycle of motherhood through the metaphor of the planting seasons, these writings capture the reverence for mothers found in various faith traditions and cultures, and the profound experiences¿often bittersweet and ripe with paradox¿shared by mothers throughout history. Contributions stem from both ancient and contemporary sources, and many contributions were written specifically for this book. Contributors include: Maya Angelou; Anne Lamott; Mirabai; Julian of Norwich; Louise Erdrich; Christina Rossetti; Sappho; Adrienne Rich; Virginia Woolf; Gunilla Norris; Rabindranath Tagore; Thich Nhat Hanh; Taniguchi Buson; Hafiz; Rainer Maria Rilke; Kahlil Gibran; Edgar Allen Poe; D. H. Lawrence; Patrick Kavanagh; and Gerard Manley Hopkins.