All I Have Is Me
All I Have Is Me

Author: K.L. Smith

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2022-03-08

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 163961401X

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All I Have Is Me is a fictional novel that tells the story of how the Logan family grieves and suffers after their lives are broken and shattered by the loss of their teenaged daughter in an automobile accident. The parents blame the death on their younger daughter, Theresa, who is driving the car. The story is told from Theresa’s viewpoint. Life as Theresa has known it changes forever in a matter of seconds. With the death of her older sister, there is no longer any warmth, happiness, or love in the family’s life. Theresa is heavily burdened watching her parents’ endless grief. She becomes tired of being the recipient of the accusatory looks of disappointment and hurt from her parents. She feels that no one cares if she lives or dies. After a failed suicide attempt, Theresa decides to do her best to stay out of her parents’ way and bide her time until she can graduate from high school and leave home. Upon high school graduation, she joins the army because she has nowhere else to go. The army provides all her basic needs for survival. The army becomes her life for twenty years. Theresa learns to exist and function without allowing herself to get emotionally involved in life. After retirement from the military, Theresa feels a need to put down roots. She stumbles upon an old dilapidated farm cottage in a small community. She feels a connection to the empty cottage that no one cares for or loves. Theresa finds that as she repairs the flaws and cracks in the old cottage and brings it back to life, she is also repairing the flaws and cracks in her own life. She renews her faith in God. By accepting love from others, the story tells how Theresa is able to find joy and beauty in living as she allows herself to love, forgive herself, and learn to live again.

Give Me Everything You Have
Give Me Everything You Have

Author: James Lasdun

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2013-02-12

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0374708908

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A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate in the crucible of the digital age. Give Me Everything You Have chronicles author James Lasdun's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled "verbal terrorist," who began trying, in her words, to "ruin him." Hate mail, online postings, and public accusations of plagiarism and sexual misconduct were her weapons of choice and, as with more conventional terrorist weapons, proved remarkably difficult to combat. James Lasdun's account, while terrifying, is told with compassion and humor, and brilliantly succeeds in turning a highly personal story into a profound meditation on subjects as varied as madness, race, Middle East politics, and the meaning of honor and reputation in the Internet age.

God, Technology, and the Christian Life
God, Technology, and the Christian Life

Author: Tony Reinke

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2021-12-09

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1433578301

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What Does God Think about Technology? From smartphones to self-driving cars to space travel, new technologies can inspire us. But the breakneck pace of change can also frighten us. So how do Christians walk by faith through the innovations of Silicon Valley? And how does God relate to our most powerful innovators? To build a biblical theology of technology, journalist and tech optimist Tony Reinke examines nine key texts from Scripture to show how the world's discoveries are divinely orchestrated. Ultimately, what we believe about God determines how we respond to human invention. With the help of several theologians and inventors throughout history, Reinke dispels twelve common myths in the church and offers fourteen ethical convictions to help Christians live by faith in the age of big tech. Biblical, Informed Look at Technology: Written by the author of 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You and Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Media Age Gathers Ideas from Industry Experts and Theologians: Interacts with Christian and non-Christian sources on technology and theology including John Calvin, Herman Bavinck, Wendell Berry, and Elon Musk Educational: Discusses the history and philosophy behind major technological innovations

What the Dying Have Taught Me about Living
What the Dying Have Taught Me about Living

Author: Grewe Fred

Publisher: The Pilgrim Press

Published: 2014-08-08

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0829820256

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Grewe states he was afraid of dying, so he became a hospice chaplain. He figured if he made friends with Death at a safe distance he would get used to the idea. For the past nine years he's had the privilege to journey with more than a thousand folks who have gone on to the other side. He shares their stories here, in The Awful Grace of God: What the Dying Have Taught Me About Living.

Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Author: John E. Colwell

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2012-04-05

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1620322668

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"Why have you forsaken me?"In this powerful book on the experience of desolation John Colwell focuses on Psalm 22, read in the light of his own struggle with bi-polar disorder and the Christian belief that God the Son suffered in his humanity, to offer existential-theological reflections on the experience of God-forsakenness. Colwell writes, "My concern in writing this book and in reading this psalm is to reflect on the felt experience of God-forsakenness, my own and that of Christ, in the light of this psalm; to explore the theological and spiritual significance of this felt experience for myself, for Christ, for Christians generally. If this exploration proves to be helpful to me or to others then I am glad, but I am not writing this book to be helpful but rather to be truthful (and perhaps hopeful)."

As My Fate Would Have Me
As My Fate Would Have Me

Author: Les Baldwin Pickrell

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2021-02-08

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1480899836

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Allie Brock, a shy teen living with her mother and sibling, finds it difficult to distinguish herself in their realm of life, and unable to identify with her own. To steer away from constant bouts within her family’s domain, she turns to the dictates of others. Allie’s gutsy mother, Lydia, steers a desperate quest to find the perfect man to rescue her from a less than idyllic destiny. As Lydia indiscriminately party-on to reach her version of a ‘happily-ever-after,’ her young daughter wriggles and wavers to survive a terrifying journey. Nonetheless, Lydia’s injurious behavior leads Allie to endure a life-changing horrifying night in which no one hears her pleads. As she struggles to cope with the aftershock, Allie struggles to find ways to reach out for help without breaking the family’s number one rule. When she finally seeks refuge, it comes with unexpected consequences.

It Was Me All Along
It Was Me All Along

Author: Andie Mitchell

Publisher: Clarkson Potter

Published: 2015-01-06

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 077043326X

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A yet heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance. All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured family. But when she stepped on the scale on her twentieth birthday and it registered a shocking 268 pounds, she knew she had to change the way she thought about food and herself; that her life was at stake. It Was Me All Along takes Andie from working class Boston to the romantic streets of Rome, from morbidly obese to half her size, from seeking comfort in anything that came cream-filled and two-to-a-pack to finding balance in exquisite (but modest) bowls of handmade pasta. This story is about much more than a woman who loves food and abhors her body. It is about someone who made changes when her situation seemed too far gone and how she discovered balance in an off-kilter world. More than anything, though, it is the story of her finding beauty in acceptance and learning to love all parts of herself.

I have diabetes; diabetes does not have me
I have diabetes; diabetes does not have me

Author: Ian Tonge

Publisher: Ian Tonge

Published: 2020-03-27

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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Diabetes can be a scary proposition for any new diagnosis; but it can also consume those who have not yet had the opportunity to manage their condition effectively or are experiencing any issues. I would ask a few questions of any potential reader of this narrative: •Do you want to beat your diabetes and bring it under your control? •Do you want to live the life that you want and not driven by worries, anxiety or depression countenanced by a lack of effective management? •Do you really understand the condition you now have or are faced with? •Do you realise what will happen with little or bad management practice? •Do you really want it to take, or retain, control of you and be in command of you? The answers to all of these questions will be displayed in real life scenarios to ensure each one is delivered with evidence of actuality provided. Ian is a long serving practitioner in the art of managing his diabetic life; 62 years and counting. Ian would like to invite you in; to help you feel more contented, calm concerns and move forward more confidently! This is an inspirational story; designed to prove how it is possible to overcome almost everything in the way of you enjoying a great life in the simplest manner possible. ‘I have diabetes; diabetes does not have me.’ are Ian’s memoirs of his battles with diabetes and management of such a chronic condition; to ensure he would be able to lead a fun-filled, exciting and successful life without attracting unwanted problems! This details how he did that; including his unprotected collision with a car travelling into him at over 80 mph. Littered with many amusing anecdotes; this is a truly unique story and is Ian’s first memoir depicting his ‘physical life’ with his diabetic partner.

They Shall Not Have Me
They Shall Not Have Me

Author: Jean Helion

Publisher: Skyhorse

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1628724056

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The French painter Jean Hélion’s unique and deeply moving account of his experiences in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps prefigures the even darker stories that would emerge from the concentration camps. This serious adventure tale begins with Hélion’s infantry platoon fleeing from the German army and warplanes as they advanced through France in the early days of the war. The soldiers chant as they march and run, “They shall not have me!” but are quickly captured and sent to hard labor. Writing in English in 1943, after his risky escape to freedom in the United States, Hélion vividly depicts the sights, sounds, and smells of the camps, and shrewdly sizes up both captors and captured. In the deep humanity, humor, and unsentimental intelligence of his observations, we can recognize the artist whose long career included friendships with the likes of Mondrian, Giacometti, and Balthus, and an important role in shaping modern art movements. Hélion’s picture of almost two years without his art is a self-portrait of the artist as a man.