Women and Their Prayers
All photos in collage from Wikimedia Today is International Women's Day , a day set aside to recognize, celebrate and empower women everywhere. I believe, no observance would be complete without recognition of the prayers of women. Using Google, I thought I would be overwhelmed by the choices of prayers from around the world written by women. To my surprise, however, I found it very difficult to find anything in the public domain. There are some recent books written with prayers by women, but they are just that - recent. Why is this, I pondered. In seconds, Spirit answered me. Prayer for women is private...we say our prayers while doing our daily tasks - caring for family, working at our careers, sharing time with friends. Our prayers are often the silent, unspoken words of our hearts. Words only heard by Creator. Interestingly, there are many prayers for women, including International Women's Day prayers written by many people from many spiritual p...