And Meditations for a Meaningful Life

Around the same age as Maria, the book echoed many of my own thoughts, challenges, concerns and hopes. I also bought this book for two friends celebrating milestone birthdays and another for a retirement gift.

In a world where we are constantly inundated with negativity, Maria manages to find the little morsels of gratefulness that we should notice in our every day lives. I bought five copies for my mom and my friends. We should all start our days with this outlook! Grateful she wrote it and highly recommend it.

In a world where we are constantly inundated with negativity, Maria manages to find the little morsels of gratefulness that we should notice in our every day lives. I bought five copies for my mom and my friends. We should all start our days with this outlook! Grateful she wrote it and highly recommend it.

It’s a powerful little book. I enjoyed reading every page. I keep it right by my nightstand. It makes you think, mediate, cry when you can relate to an experience and pray through every situation in life. I’ll read it again and again.

I enjoyed this book. Maria has the ability to relate on a personal level with the reader. Sometimes we believe that the "rich and famous" have perfect lives but they endure many of the same issues we all face. I recently lost my Mom and can identify with her personal thoughts about her family and losing parents. I recommend.

A beautiful and very poignant book to keep on your bedside table or in your briefcase to come back to over and over. Maria’s heartfelt and honest approach to vulnerability is refreshing and very needed presently! Whether you are religious or spiritual, this book speaks to every human! I loved it.

Maria writes with such honesty, humanity, humor and wisdom---This book is remarkable--and every time you pick it up you gain something new from it--that is the kind of book one needs for one's library---a book that will enrich and enlighten you time and time again---

One of my favorite books on spirituality and prayer. I have always admired Ms. Shrivers grace and insight. I like that I can skip around to read chapters randomly and they are short if I don’t have much time. I plan to buy more of these as gifts for my daughters.

Thoughts and ideas to help you navigate thru the craziness around us. As soon as you finish the book , you will want to reread again ! The quotes and the stories make you reflect on what you can do in your own life . It really makes you think....

I enjoy the short stories and life lessons intertwined within this book. Often after reading only a few pages, I will find myself reflecting and thinking about it throughout the day. I gave my copy to my mother when she was visiting because she enjoyed it so much. Time to
buy another copy. :)