A heart-warming collection of prayers and mediations designed for women of all faiths to meet the challenges of everyday life. Illumine My Spirit: Bahai Prayers and Meditations for Women speaks specifically to the qualities and concerns of women in a way seldom seen in books of prayers. Among the topics covered are the qualities of women, motherhood, the education of children, the loss of loved ones, steadfastness, courage, and many more. This beautifully arranged compilation draws from a wide selection of the Bahai sacred texts. For more then 100 years these prayers have offered millions inspiration and guidance in time of need. Illumine My Spirit: Bahai Prayers and Meditations for Women will surely serve as a treasury of comforting and reassuring words for women navigating the ups and downs of life. This is the first time these prayers have been assembled together and published for all spiritual seekers.

'Abdu'l-Bahá tells us that: "There is nothing sweeter in the world of existence than prayer." This is a prayer book for the sheer ecstasy of communion with God and the pure pleasure of intoxication with the Word. It includes sections on glad-tidings, love, intoxication, rapture, sorrow and joy, and seeking. Also included are familiar meditations and Tablets, like the Long Healing Prayer, the Tablet of Ahmad, and the Fire Tablet, and the maybe less familiar, like the Tablet of the True Seeker, the Perspicuous Verses, and the Blessings from the last passage of the Lawh-i-Aqdas.Collected in this little book are powerful and rapturous prayers and passages from the Bahá'í sacred writings of Baha'u'llah, the Bab, and Abdu'l-Baha to uplift anyone in private prayer or devotional gatherings.

The first edition of the Interfaith Prayer Book was released in 2001. It proved to be immensely popular for use both at interfaith gatherings and for personal reflection, having found its way into hospitals, motel rooms and college classrooms as well as places of worship all around the world. That edition contained a selection of prayers from six religious traditions; Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim and Bah ' . This Expanded Edition adds prayers from eight additional traditions; Native African, Native American, Zoroastrian, Taoist, Confucian, Shinto, Jain and Sikh. Its aim is to further enrich our devotional practice, to share a taste of our planet's diverse spiritual heritage and to deepen our sense of interfaith connectedness. Nothing brings us closer to God or closer to each other than prayer.