Prayers for a Thousand Years: Blessings and Expressions of Hope for the New Millenium—Inspiration from Leaders & Visionaries Around the World

by Elizabeth Roberts, Elias Amidon

In Prayers for a Thousand Years, Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon have collected hundreds of wishes, blessings, stories, and challenges-almost all written especially for this volume-from a diverse group of distinguished international contributors. Spiritual teachers, poets and activists, political leaders, youth, artists and visionaries-all are joined together here for the first time, sharing their personal appeals for peace and understanding. Organized around eternal themes-such as creating communities of peace, reflections on politics, economics, and morality, and our holy earth-this book is a profound and lively collection of empowering visions for our common future and a celebration of the infinite variations of universal hope.

386 pages, Kindle Edition

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.