Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works.
-Matthew 5:16

Prayer can ease the soul and strengthen the heart, while bringing us closer to God and to a deeper understanding of ourselves. Prayer is inspiring and enabling; it increases calmness, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, and healing.

Author Reverend Irene Monroe has led the Christian LGBT community into a more prayerful life. Let Your Light Shine Like a Rainbow 365 Days a Year is an inspirational companion of comfort, reassurance, and hope that helps you start each day of the year on a positive note-with a powerful quote from the Bible, along with a brief reflection from the Reverend Monroe.

This small treasure of wise and uplifting prayers will open your heart and soul and give voice to your deepest feelings. Using the sometimes startling wisdom of the Bible, these 365 meditations will help you understand that judgment is unnecessary and that the greatest power is self-love; these words will enable you to hear your own voice of strength in a world of challenges.

This spiritual gem makes a loving gift for friends or family-or for oneself-when words of wisdom and comfort are most needed.

Reverend Irene Monroe is a graduate of Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, and served as a pastor before coming to Harvard Divinity School for her doctorate. Reverend Monroe has been profiled in O, The Oprah Magazine and on CNN's Paula Zahn Now.