A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meals from Buddha to The Beatles

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M.J. Ryan

A Grateful Heart

Daily Blessings for the Evening Meals from Buddha to The Beatles

M.J. Ryan

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Mango Media
09 April 2025

Prayers & liturgical material; Prayer; Family & health

Celebrate the Human Experience by Giving Thanks at Mealtime. Try It!

Count your blessings.

Today there is a deep hunger for connection with ourselves, with nature, and with the process of birth and death itself says life coach and author M. J. Ryan, creator of theNew York Timesbest-sellingRandom Acts of Kindnessseries. What her book,A Grateful Heart, is offering from a wide variety of spiritual disciplines and secular perspectives, is a way of satisfying that hunger by setting aside time before we eat to acknowledge the blessings in our lives. When we give thanks, we take our place in the great wheel of life, recognizing our connection to one another and to all of creation.

Choose from 365 blessings and give thanks.

A Grateful Heartis a tool to help readers reclaim and enrich the tradition of pausing before the evening meal to give thanks. Drawing from a range of religious and cultural practices, the 365 blessings in this book celebrate friendship, love, peace, reconciliation, the body, nature, joy, and appreciation of the moment. This illustrated feast for the mind includes quotations from Martin Luther King Jr., Thich Nhat Hanh, Gandhi, Rumi, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Denise Levertov, the Bible, and the Tao Te Ching.

M. J. Ryan wroteA Grateful Heartto encourage families to share the experience of being part of something greater than themselves.

With that in mind, the book includes 365 traditional and nontraditional blessings organized into four sections corresponding to the seasons.

Experience the blessings inA Grateful Heartin a variety of ways:

Just open it and begin reading one-a-day in the order given Use the index to pick and choose topics of interest that day Open at random and read what is offered

If you have benefited from books such asEarth Prayers, M. J. Ryan'sAttitudes of Gratitude, Don Miguel Ruiz'sPrayers, June Cotner'sGraces, or Marcia M. Kelly's100 Graces; you and your family will love M. J. Ryan'sA Grateful Heart.

By: M.J. Ryan
Imprint: Mango Media
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 9mm
ISBN: 9781684817795
ISBN 10: 168481779X
Pages: 275
Publication Date: 09 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Contents Introduction Fall Winter Spring Summer Index Acknowledgments Copyright Acknowledgments About the Editor

M.J. Ryan is a wellness coach and New York Times bestselling author of several self-help series. With degrees in psychology and literature, she became CEO of Conari Press in 1987, where she published several famous motivational and positive psychology books. M.J.’s success didn’t stop there as she joined nonprofits such as Professional Thinking Partners and SheEO to help female and non-binary entrepreneurs become the strong leaders they are today. She currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and daughter.

Reviews for A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meals from Buddha to The Beatles

“If you’re looking for new prayers to enliven an old tradition, try this.” —USA Today “What better time to practice gratitude than before eating! This carefully compiled little book builds on the traditional recitation of grace before a meal with a collection of short musings, from diverse sources, meant to focus our attention on things profound and simple. The writings come from traditional religious sources, from philosophers and poets, and from every day people. They are 365 “soft whisperings from the heart” intended to bring your customers daily joy.” —Anna Jedrziewski, Retailing Insight (formerly New Age Retailer)