Books by Sophy Burnham
The Path of Prayer: Reflections on Prayer and True Stories of How It Affects Our Lives
Sophy Burnham's unique, humanistic approach to the spiritual has inspired millions of readers. Now in this luminous, yet down-to-earth and practical book, she explores the universal meaning of prayer and its practice and shows how prayer can help those of all faiths-or none-to resolve doubts and anxieties, find comfort during troubled times, and realize their deepest longings, thoughts, and dreams. With characteristic grace, Burnham shares her personal observations and experience with prayer, as well as true stories of people who have found answers-sometimes miracles-through prayer. It is short enough to read in one sitting, deep enough to peruse again and again. Filled with suggestions and prayers from many traditions, this engaging volume provides strength and direction at just the time many people are searching for answers.
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The Path of Prayer: Reflections on Prayer and True Stories of How It Affects Our Lives
The author of the best-selling A Book of Angels interweaves her personal experiences with true-life stories to reveal the meaning of prayer in our lives, examine its practice, and show the benefits of prayer to physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual health. 22,500 first printing.
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All Night, All Day: life, death & angels
by Susan Cushman, Sophy Burnham, Cassandra King, Suzanne Henley
All Night, All Day is an inspirational collection of personal essays, stories, and poems by outstanding women authors who write about the appearance of the divine in their lives. Some of these angels come to save a life or change a flat tire. Some appear to warn people, tell them what to do, suggest more vegetables and maybe better shoes.
Contributors: Cassandra King - Suzanne Henley - River Jordan - Sally Palmer Thomason - Natasha Trethewey - Sonja Livingston - Johnnie Bernhard - Frederica Mathewes-Green - Angela Jackson-Brown - Christa Allan - Renea Winchester - Jacqueline Allen Trimble - Mandy Haynes - Wendy Reed - Lisa Gornick - Jennifer Horne - Ann Fisher-Wirth - Averyell Kessler - Lauren Camp - Cathy Smith Bowers - Nancy Dorman-Hickson - Joanna Siebert - Susan Cushman - Claire Fullerton - Julie Cantrell
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A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives
A gorgeous new edition of the New York Times bestseller that has sold more than a million copies.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A golden conjunction of heaven and earth...reminding us that there are angels in every religion." -The Washington Post
"As far as angels are concerned, now you see them, now you don't. A Book of Angels gives us a lovely, sustained glimpse." -Chicago Tribune
When Sophy Burnham wrote A Book of Angels, she inspired a phenomenon. An instant bestseller when it was originally published in 1990, this beautiful book not only tells the extraordinary true stories of present-day encounters with angels, but also traces the study of angels throughout history and in different cultures. Burnham writes about the powerful male angels, Buddhist bodhisattvas, Islamic angels, Hindu Apsaras, the mysterious angels of the Jewish Kabbalah, cherubim, seraphim, guardian angels, the angel of death, and others.
What are angels? What do they look like? Whom do they choose to visit? Why do they appear sometimes and not others, and would you recognize one if it appeared before you? With great feeling, Burnham offers an eloquent report from the place where earth and heaven meet. A wondrous journey into the world of angels, this book is a song of praise to life.
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For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners
If you are looking for guidance on how to craft a sentence or find a literary agent this book is not for you. Rather, here is a map for traveling the emotion-laden path that is the creative process. In For Writer's Only, bestselling author and playwright, Sophy Burnham weaves the insights of some of the greatest writers with her own observations and experiences to provide inspiration and encouragement for writers everywhere.
Burnham wrote this book for herself when she was in a particularly dark period, unable to get any of her work published. She wanted to know, how did the Great Masters, the immortals, do it? How did they combat discouragement, despair, rejection, dismissal, defeat? Did they write every day? What counsel and advice did they have to offer? In this book, you will discover the strange places authors have found they work best (Agatha Christie plotted her books in her bathtub, eating apples); the surprising diversions they use to escape the project they are working on (Anne Beattie used to vacuum rather than write); and why Faulkner famously asserted, "If a story is in you, it has got to come out."
The truth is that the act of being creative is a difficult-even violent-process. Whether you read this book in one gulp from cover to cover, or simply pick it and read a few pages at those times when your are blocked, you will find yourself renewed, restored, re-heartened, and ready to race back to your own writing, your creative center.
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The Wonder and Happiness of Being Old Offerings of Hope, Joy, and New Ways to Perceive Aging
"To read Sophy Burnham is to marvel at her eloquence, erudition, her wisdom and her daring. She answers the question, 'What is it like to be Old?' with honesty, humility and humor. This is a woman who fox hunted until she was 80." -Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way
"I love, love, love this book. This is so much more than a book about aging. Prepare for a stunning, uplifting, inspiring, and honest look at the fullness of LIFE that takes the fear out of adding another year. With Sophy Burnham's profound spiritual wisdom deftly woven into these delicious words, you will want to read it with highlighter in hand." -Suzanne Giesemann, author of The Awakened Way
"Forget what you think you know about life's so-called last chapter. Written in sparkling prose, Burnham's latest book will inspire you to leap on a horse, learn Latin or simply pause to drink in the view, regardless of your age. A meditation on beauty, strength and life's meaning, Burnham's frank and passionate epistolary book reframes what it means to age." -Katherine Eban, New York Times bestselling author of Bottle of Lies
The Wonder and Happiness of Being Old is a timeless introspection on age, love, passion, memories, regret and reconciliation, death, forgiveness, and underneath it all, the silent wisdom that derives from how differently we perceive our lives and struggles from the broader, higher perspective of years.
What began as a singular letter in response to a younger family member standing on the precipice of her 60th birthday and asking the age-old question, "What's it like to be old?," soon turned into one full year of unsent reflections, wonderment, and curiosity of a life truly lived. Out of these reflections, bestselling author Sophy Burnham developed this short, story-telling collection of unsent letters that offer readers of all ages hope and joy and new ways to perceive the process of aging.
A kind and thoughtful read, The Wonder and Happiness of Being Old is the perfect companion piece for life that you can return to time and time again to join Burnham as she reflects on her own desires and experience with age and growth and living fully. Whether you're at the doorstep of 40, 60, 70, or 90, she welcomes you in with an outstretched hand and a knowing nod of understanding and warmth.
In the end, this book is about being old. It's also about joy. And most importantly, it's about love: Love of self, of life, and of still being here to tell your stories.
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