Julia Cameron - Answered Prayers

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

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The small prayer book that you hold in your hands is intended to work two ways. First, it identifies the spiritual issues that may be troubling you: loneliness, despair, boredom, financial insecurity, frustration, grief, uncertainty, and more. Second, it addresses those issues with the assurance that we are beloved exactly as we are. In this sense, the prayers are not only articulated but answered. Each page of this book raises a problem and moves to resolve it. Reading each prayer, we are asked to ascend from our human perspective to a divine perspective, from which our troubles may appear very different. What we perceive as our failings, God may view as opportunities for help and growth. What we may view as our all-too-human foibles, God may view as the very nature that he created and loves. The kindness of God may be for some of us a revelation.

While a book like this may be read in one sitting, it is perhaps wiser to proceed more thoughtfully, reading one prayer daily or perhaps a few, bearing in mind that some difficult topics will be addressed multiple times. Repetition in a book like this is a deliberate matter. We return to troublesome topics over and over again. Issues like financial insecurity are not often resolved with a single prayer. Rather, these are issues we bring to the altar of our heart again and again. We need to be reassured more than one time that all is well.

All is well. That is the message of this book. It is my hope that the language of this book will reach your heart.