Prayers for a Thousand Years

by Elizabeth Roberts, Elias Amidon

Inspiration from leaders and visionaries around the world. • Includes more than 250 selections of mostly original material by prominent spiritual teachers, writers and activists from around the world.
• Editors have a strong track of high-quality material, including the bestselling 'Earth Prayers'.

384 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1999

Reviews

[Juli Anna]

This wasn't nearly as good as Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth, and it has definitely lost its punch since the year 2000.

[Green Heart Guidance]

While I love Elizabeth Roberts’ other prayer books, Prayers for a Thousand Years has a very different tone to it. The focus is on the new millennium, so much of the work feels dated 15 years later. There also is a pessimism to a great number of the prayers that left me feeling depressed by the end of the book. The problems of the world are viewed as the worst humanity has ever faced, and thus, the writings are often ones of hopelessness. While I agree that the issues of poverty, injustice, global warming, and many others are dire, I believe it is possible to write and pray about them in a way that creates positive energy for change rather than despair about the mess our world is in.

[Sandy]

GREAT READING IF YOU'VE JUST WATCHED THE NEWS, ANY NEWS, ANY DAY. HOW DO YOU KEEP HOPE ALIVE?

This book came out at the end of the last century-- 1999. Contains prayers for the next thousand years from every tradition you can think of-- all the great religions, world cultures, indigenous leaders, writers,contemporary singers. You name it. Special messages from living masters for the next millennium. Great reading, especially if you've just watched the news.