Index: "Pulling the Pieces into Prayers"

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Making Prayers Your Own

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Index: Pulling the Pieces into Prayer

Here is an index to the prayers included in Pulling the Pieces into Prayer: And Bringing their Blessings into a Jewish Life (or Any Life). While most of the prayers are original prayers written by Betsy, or traditional prayers adapted by her to “make them her own,” the book also includes a few unchanged traditional Jewish prayers which are indicated as such.

By providing you with the complete index, Betsy hopes you will be encouraged to think creatively about prayer. She invites you to consider saying or writing prayers on little or big subjects, using words that come from your heart. And she invites you to consider rewriting traditional prayers to make them your own.

The prayers included in the small book Bits and Pieces of Prayer are marked with an asterisk (*).

Betsy’s Prayers 1995 - 1999

* Take It Easy Today
* Simple Thanks
Thankful for the Good, Accepting of the Hard
So I May Grow
23rd Psalm Shortened
Let’s Play Together
Energy and Joy!
Welcome Wherever I Go
Be My Strength in Days of Trouble
Belief in Searching for You
* Give Me a Sense of Humor Always
Greet the Day
A Prayer for Not Smoking
A Prayer for Monday Morning (all mornings)
* In Gratitude and Thankfulness
* Betsy’s Prayer
* In Their Own Way
* I Dedicate My Prayers
Grateful for the Path
Teach us to Number Our Days
* Skip the Lessons
A Solstice Prayer – Miracles of Light, Birth and Hope
* Daily Grace and *Shabbat Prayer
Based on 121st Psalm
Life as I Choose to Live It (a prayer fragment)
As We Bless the Source of Life
Betsy’s Prayer “To Add Love”
Thankful and Humbled
* So I Can With Others Do the Work We Must Do
We Ask. That Is All We Can Do
Choices

Challenges and Changes 1999 – 2002

* A Prayer for a Lazy Morning
* From Complicated to Simple
Prayer for Pain
Grand Canyon Prayers
Prayers with Jenna
Another Supper Prayer
Peace at What Price?
Brief Moments of Serenity
* Footprints and Shadows
* Today I Will Walk Lightly
Transform Annoyances into Love
New Job Prayers
23rd Psalm New Version
Angry Letters to God
On the Problems with Pacifism (prayer fragments)
Furious Whirl-Wind Woman
* Put Pen to Paper and Write for Your Life
Be Nice
If I Give Up, Then What?
* Based on Psalm 6
Where Do I Find You Adonai?
* Teaching me to Accept Life
* The Shelter of Love
* Prayer Fragments for the Days of Awe
I Do What I can and Some Days that is Darn Good
To Open Up Doors
The World in Tatters
Sadness and Fear
* Amidah Daily Prayer
The Other “God” Jesus
You Do Not Answer Me
They Say People Who are Named in Prayers Get Better
* If More Prayed
Monday Morning Prayer Revisited
The Luck of Having Food and Shelter
* Daily Healing Prayer
What to Do?
Do Mitzvot
On Judging Others

Blessings of a Jewish Life 2003 – 2005

* Amidah Bullet Point List
* Amidah Bullet Point List with Blessings Added
Life Is
El Moley Rachomim (God Full of Compassion / Traditional)
Teach us to Number Our Days (for every day)
A Prayer for Mornings (winter and alone)
* Healer of the Sick, Spirit of Wholeness and Goodness Within Us
* Short Healing Prayers
Bless and Curse
Amidah, Eighteen Prayers
* Traditional Jewish Healing Prayers
It is Up to Us
Trying This and That
My Pursuit of You
* Lead Me in These Good Days
Prayer is Not Enough
* Our Work is Never Done