Adriana's Angels
Adriana's Angels

Author: Ruth Goring

Publisher: Sparkhouse Family

Published: 2017-09-12

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1506494595

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Two angels, Milagros (Miracles) and Alegria (Joy), wield their protective power surreptitiously and sometimes with a hint of humor, listening constantly for God's direction as they watch over a little girl named Adriana. Adriana and her family are forced to flee their home in Colombia and start a new life in Chicago. Throughout difficult times, big transitions, and the ordinary moments of childhood, Adriana's angels whisper messages of God's love and presence. Adriana's Angels encourages faith, wonder, and compassion. Many children who read or hear this story will grow in empathy toward refugee and other immigrant peers. Their sense of God's attentive care will deepen, particularly as they witness the angels" ministry to Adriana while she sleeps. Children who have experienced trauma often relive it unconsciously at night-which is why the Spirit's mysterious healing work in sleep is so important. Adriana's Angels is available in both English and in Spanish as Los angeles de Adriana. The Spanish version is a 2017 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards winner--a contest intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children's books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading.

Angels and Monsters
Angels and Monsters

Author: Richard Somerset-Ward

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780300099683

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"Whether they were male or female, these singers wre amazing vertuosi, perhaps the greatest singers there have ever been - "angels." Unfortunately, some of them (and often the most famous) were also capable of behaving extremely badly, both on and off stage - "monsters." This book tells their colorful stories."--Jacket.

Isaiah and the Worry Pack
Isaiah and the Worry Pack

Author: Ruth Goring

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1514001071

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Isaiah's got too many things on his mind, so Mom helps him imagine each of his worries as a block stashed in his backpack. As Isaiah imagines hiking through the woods carrying his worry pack, he discovers the joy and relief of trusting Jesus with his worries. This beautifully illustrated children's book also includes tools to help parents engage in conversation about the content.

A Journey Called Hope
A Journey Called Hope

Author: Rick Rouse

Publisher: Chalice Press

Published: 2024-08-13

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0827201273

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Author Rick Rouse weaves a tapestry of immigrant experiences—successes, hopes, challenges, and dreams that have often unfolded amidst global conflicts and political polarization. These narratives inspire compassion as “these least of these” search for a safe haven and discover how diversity enriches America and our faith. While the American story aspires to be the story of welcome and refuge for all, our history often tells a different story. As wars are raging in Ukraine and the Middle East, creating millions of refugees merely seeking safety, American politics remains so polarized that the government appears deadlocked or unable to act on meaningful solutions to immigration policies. In A Journey Called Hope, author Rick Rouse shares the stories of immigrants from around the world to America — their successes, hopes, challenges, and dreams. He explores how we can share our planet with the understanding that it is a matter of human dignity for all people to have a safe place to call home. In sharing these inspiring stories and hope-filled futures, Rouse assures us the United States is still a nation of promise made richer by its diversity.

Angel's Rest
Angel's Rest

Author: Charles Davis

Publisher: MIRA

Published: 2006-09-01

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1552545784

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Growing up in Virginia's Allegheny Mountains, eleven-year-old Charlie York lives at the foot of an endless peak called Angel's Rest, a place his momma told him angels rested before coming down to help folks. In 1967 his town was a poor boy's paradise…until a shotgun blast killed Charlie's father and put his mother on trial for murder. For mysterious reasons, his mother entrusts his care to an old black man named Lacy Albert Coe. Lacy tells simple stories about the good and the bad that compose life's sweetest music. But when Hollis Thrasher, a reclusive Korean War veteran, is linked to his father's death and Lacy is victimized by hate crimes, Charlie hears only silence. It's not until Charlie embarks on a dangerous midnight journey pitting him against his darkest fears that he finally hears his own song playing out.

Under Angel Wings
Under Angel Wings

Author: Sr. Maria Antonia

Publisher: TAN Books

Published: 2001-01-02

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1618903152

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This is the true story of a young girl in Brazil who saw and heard her Guardian Angel during most of her life. The book is filled with real-life anecdotes which are edifying, moving and often humorous. Cecy Cony (1900-1939) tells story after story of how her Guardian Angel (whom she calls her ""New Friend"") kept her from lying, stealing, revenge, immodesty, etc.--and from watching certain movies. Shows the innocence and holiness that children are capable of. Impr.

Los Ángeles de Adriana
Los Ángeles de Adriana

Author: Ruth Goring

Publisher: Sparkhouse Family

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781506425078

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Dos ángeles, Milagros y Alegría, ejercen su poder protector a escondidas y a veces con un toque de humor, siguiendo constantemente la dirección de Dios mientras cuidan a una niña llamada Adriana. La pequeña protagonista y su familia se ven obligadas a dejar su hogar en Colombia y empezar una nueva vida en Chicago. Durante tiempos difíciles, transiciones grandes y momentos ordinarios de la niñez, los ángeles de Adriana le susurran mensajes acerca de la presencia y el amor de Dios. Los ángeles de Adriana estimula la fe, imaginación, curiosidad y empatía. Los niños que leen o escuchan esta historia crecerán en la comprensión de sus compañeros refugiados o inmigrantes. Su sentido del cuidado atento de Dios por ellos y por otros se profundizará, especialmente conociendo la labor entrañable de los ángeles mientras Adriana duerme. Los ninos que han vivido situaciones traumáticas frecuentemente las reviven de noche --por eso es profundamente importante la misteriosa obra sanadora del Espíritu Santo durante el sueño. Two angels, Milagros (Miracles) and Alegria (Joy), wield their protective power surreptitiously and sometimes with a hint of humor, listening constantly for God's direction as they watch over a little girl named Adriana. Adriana and her family are forced to flee their home in Colombia and start a new life in Chicago. Throughout difficult times, big transitions, and the ordinary moments of childhood, Adriana's angels whisper messages of God's love and presence. Adriana's Angels encourages faith, wonder, and compassion. Many children who read or hear this story will grow in empathy toward refugee and other immigrant peers. Their sense of God's attentive care will deepen, particularly as they witness the angels' ministry to Adriana while she sleeps. Children who have experienced trauma often relive it unconsciously at night which is why the Spirit's mysterious healing work in sleep is so important. Los ángeles de Adriana is a 2017 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards winner-a contest intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children's books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading.

Picturing God
Picturing God

Author: Ruth Goring

Publisher: Beaming Books

Published: 2023-01-10

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1506489966

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*A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection* With poetic language and gorgeous handcrafted mixed-media collages and mosaics, Picturing God brings to life the many metaphors for God found in the Bible. God is the light, living water, a father, a mother, clothing, a rock, wind, comforter, a door, the Good Shepherd, and more. Poet and artist Ruth Goring invites children and adults alike to revisit the beautiful imagery found in Scripture and provides an opportunity for children to develop their imagination about who God is. At the end of the book, a list of Bible references is provided for each image depicted for families to look up and learn more about the Bible's many ways of picturing God.

What Saves Us
What Saves Us

Author: Martín Espada

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2019-09-15

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0810140837

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This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—about much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes. There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-two poets featured include Juan Felipe Herrera, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Patricia Smith, Robert Pinsky, Donald Hall, Elizabeth Alexander, Ocean Vuong, Marge Piercy, Yusef Komunyakaa, Brian Turner, and Naomi Shihab Nye. They speak of persecuted and scapegoated immigrants. They bear witness to violence: police brutality against African Americans, mass shootings in a school or synagogue. They testify to poverty, the waitress surviving on leftovers at the restaurant, the battles of a teacher in a shelter for homeless mothers, the emergency-room doctor listening to the heartbeats of his patients. There are voices of labor, in the factory and the fields. There are prophetic voices, imploring us to imagine the world we will leave behind in ruins lest we speak and act. However, this is not merely a collection of grievances. The poets build bridges. One poet steps up to translate in Arabic at the airport; another declaims a musical manifesto after the hurricane that devastated his island; another evokes a demonstration in the street, an ecstasy of defiance, the joy of resistance. The poets take back the language, resisting the demagogic corruption of words themselves. They assert our common humanity.