A String & A Prayer: How To Make And Use Prayer Beads - Eleanor Wiley & Maggie Oman Shannon

A string & a prayer: how to make and use prayer beads - Eleanor Wiley & Maggie Oman Shannon USING PRAYER BEADS is a practice as old as time itself, a nearly universal Mpractice. Using prayer beads is also intensely personal. While choosing our beads and talismans and infusing them with our own associations, we keep our connection to the spiritual fresh and meaningful. A String and a Prayer recounts the history and symbolism of prayer beads, teaches basic techniques for stringing beads and found objects, and offers prayers and rituals to use these sacred objects every day. Create prayer beads for meditation, a marriage, a child, an end-ing, or a beginning. Stringing beads reminds us to take life one piece at a time, one challenge at a time. A String and a Prayer is the perfect place to begin or continue your personal prayer practice. ELEANOR WILEY is a former speech pathologist and gerontologist who began her prayer-bead practice at age fifty-eight. She teaches workshops on making prayer beads as a spiritual practice all over the world. Her pieces have been worn by Ram Dass and H.H. the Dalai Lama. MAGGIE OMAN SHANNON is a spiritual director, inner-life coach, and accomplished prayer-bead maker. She is the author of The Way We Pray and Prayers for Healing. Black and white pictures Possibly signed by one of the authors - could not be verified.

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