This book takes you on an exceptional journey. Each chapter's guidance, poetry, stories, and tools expand your knowledge and your capacity to offer kindness and compassion to yourself and others. Nancy Smyth's generous advice will open your heart, enabling you to set aside past assumptions and choose a new narrative to light your way as you take the path before you with confidence and joy. The insights and strategies this book provides will bring you clarity, great energy, kindhearted relationships, wonder, and inner peace. You will find what you seek. Embrace the life that you long to experience.
This book can be viewed as a study of prayer and The Names of God, as well as, used as a devotional guide into a more intimate relationship with Our Creator and Lord. It is a book to be experienced, not just read. You will begin by seeing how Genesis 22 is actually a guideline to HOW and WHEN to LISTEN for His Voice. Continuing with the theme of relationship with Him, we look into many of the passages that state "Lord" or "God", while the original Names called out "Creator", "Master", "Provider", and so much more. Each section ends with a prayer, thus leading you into reflections and thoughts of your own concerning what you have just read. Andrea Davis has a Master's Degree in Education and currently teaches at an alternative high school in Illinois. Nancy Radtke, who resides in Arizona and Illinois, has a degree in Occupational Therapy and is now a professional artist. Both authors are co-founders of In His Presence Prayer Ministries. IHPPM is a teaching ministry that seeks to help believers experience a deeper desire for The Presence of Their Heavenly Father, as well as, a more intimate relationship with Him.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER • The question isn't whether God speaks. The question is what does He have to say to you? The New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker teaches readers how to listen to God. WINNER OF THE ECPA CHRISTIAN BOOK AWARD FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING The voice that spoke the cosmos into existence is the same voice that parted the Red Sea, and made the sun stand still in the midday sky. One day, this voice will make all things new, but it’s also speaking to you now! That voice is God’s voice, and what we’ve learned from Scripture is that He often speaks in a whisper. Not to make it difficult to hear Him, but to draw us close. Many people have a tough time believing God still speaks. Sure, in ancient times and in mysterious ways, God spoke to His people, but is He still speaking now? Mark Batterson certainly believes so. And he wants to introduce you to the seven love languages of God; each of them unique and entirely divine. Some of them you might suspect but others will surprise you. By learning to tune in to and decipher each language, you’ll be able to hear His guidance in simple as well as life-altering choices. God is actively speaking through: Scripture, Desires, Doors, Dreams, People, Promptings, and Pain. Batterson gives you the tools you need to unlock each of these languages. God’s whisper can answer your most burning questions, calm your deepest fears, and fulfill your loftiest dreams. Discover how simple it is to hear God’s voice in every aspect of your life! He’s speaking, make sure you know how to listen!
Between your work and home obligations, having a daily quiet time with God often feels like another unattainable goal. With refreshing humor and heartwarming honesty, Emily Ryan debunks the myths of what qualifies as “quiet time” and provides new ways for you to connect with God that take into account your everyday commitments. Start enjoying the Father’s presence as you experiment with “Guilt-Free Ideas for More” at the end of each chapter.
This inspiring book presents the concept of a heartprint -- the distinctive impression that an educator's heart leaves on students and colleagues during his or her professional career. For teachers, understand how teacher motivation, teacher-student relationships, and collaborative teaching all affect your self-efficacy, career, and professional development. For school leaders and administrators, discover your impact on staff, students, and school culture as you progress in your career and gain perspective on creating sustainable change. Examine the 5 HEART aspects of your professional life: Happiness: a passion for teaching, a purpose, and a desire to positively impact education Engagement: teacher motivation, energy, and effort necessary to impact student learning Alliances: relationships, collaborative teaching, and teacher support Risk: vision-focused risk taking to create sustainable change in schools Thought: the knowledge and professional development integral to advancing your career Discover Your Answer to the Question "Why Teach" and Advance Your Career in Education: Reflect on your journey and the personal and professional qualities of the teacher or leader you want to be. Discover your distinctive heartprint on your students and colleagues, and decide what the qualities of a good teacher are for you. Gain personal development plan ideas and inspirational insights from Dr. Kanold as well as dozens of thought leaders and researchers. Connect your professional life to each chapter and reconnect to the emotion, passion, energy, growth, and collaborative intimacy expected when joining the teaching profession. Build collective teacher efficacy and academic optimism by using the resource as a book study for professional development. Contents: Part 1: H Is for Happiness Chapter 1: The Happiness Dilemma Chapter 2: The Happiness-Passion Connection Chapter 3: What's Love Got to Do With It? Chapter 4: Got Compassion? Check! Chapter 5: Wanted--Persons of Positive Character and Hope Chapter 6: The Joy-Gratitude-Stability Connection Chapter 7: Why Should We Weep? Final Thoughts: The World Happiness Report Part 2: E Is for Engagement Chapter 8: Gallup Says--Full Engagement Not Ahead Chapter 9: Getting Engaged! Chapter 10: It's Energy, Not Time Chapter 11: Name That Energy Quadrant Chapter 12: Avoid the Quadrant III Drift Chapter 13: Quadrant II Time Required Chapter 14: Grit--Deliberate Daily Practice Final Thoughts: The MTXE Perspective Part 3: A Is for Alliances Chapter 15: The Primary Purposes of Collaboration Chapter 16: PLCs--Serving the Greater Good Chapter 17: Oh, the Inequity Places We'll Go! Chapter 18: Reduce Our Professional Noise Chapter 19: Relational Intelligence Required Chapter 20: What Are Those Black Boxes? Chapter 21: Celebration--Making Above and Beyond the Norm the Norm Final Thoughts: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success Part 4: R Is for Risk Chapter 22: What's in a Goal? Chapter 23: Shared Purpose--Each and Every Child Can Learn Chapter 24: Results or Persons? Chapter 25: The Risk-Vision Dependency Chapter 26: Build Trust the Millennial Way Chapter 27: Fixed or Growth Mindset? Chapter 28: Warning--Entropy Ahead! Final Thoughts: A Sense of Urgency Part 5: T Is for Thought Chapter 29: Your Great Adventure! Chapter 30: Your Voice of Wisdom Chapter 31: Clean Up the Climate Chapter 32: Become a Feedback Fanatic Chapter 33: Yours, Mine, and Ours Final Thoughts: Hold the Mayo!
The lioness rises from her slumber, a magnificent image of strength, passion, and beauty. Her mere presence commands the landscape, protects her young, and empowers the lion. In groups, lionesses become a creative and strategic force to be reckoned with, acting as one to change the world around them. You too are a lioness. In Lioness Arising, author and speaker Lisa Bevere offers the life and image of the lioness as a fierce and tender model for women. Revealing the surprising characteristics of this amazing creature, Lisa challenges women to discover fresh passion, prowess, and purpose. Learn what it means to: • be a stunning representation of strength • fiercely protect the young • lend your voice to the silenced • live in the light and hunt in the dark • raise a collective roar that changes everything Packed with remarkable insights from nature and a rich depth of biblical references to lionesses, Lioness Arising is a call for women to rise up in strength and numbers to change their world. Jesus is, after all, the lion of the Tribe of Judah. We are his lioness arising.
Re-Membering the Truth of Who You Are provides a powerful tool for those recovering from trauma, grief, abuse of any kind as well as those with a lack of confidence and low self-esteem. This book is designed to put the reader back together again. To Re-Member all the parts of ourselves that have been crushed in any way by life, or hidden to protect ourselves or even parts that pretend experiences haven’t happened at all. Gently this book encourages the reader to honestly look at the truth and begin the process of emotional healing. There are positive exercises to inspire and lift and encourage, gently guiding the reader to let go with understanding. This is a book of self care and discovery paving the way for the reader to experience the freedom to be his or her self. Soaring, rising upwards free from emotional pain into a new way of being that supports and thrives the space and time of now. Everyone has the right to be seen, heard and acknowledged but first we have to do this for ourselves.
A ground-breaking program designed to help young children fall asleep on their own includes seven guide relaxation exercises that allow parents to customize a bedtime routine to promte a restful sleep. Original.
Heartfelt stories of everyday people that inspire us to challenge life's peaks and pitfalls-and begin our own journeys of spiritual and personal growth.
Divine Play Is About Finding Wholeness In The Relative World. Its Roots Are In Advaita, The Hindu Philosophy Of Nonduality, But It Also Holds The Seeds Of Jungian Archetypes, Tribal Ritual, And Tibetan Buddhism As Teachers Of The One . It Is A Uniquely Powerful, Psychological And Spiritual Insight Tool That Can Be Used By Anyone Interested In Delving Deeper Into The Nature Of Their True Self. But, It Can Also Be A Very Helpful Aid As A Therapeutic Tool For Therapists And Their Clients. The Goal Of Divine Play Is To Help Players Make The Positive Choices Necessary To Improve Their Spiritual Awareness, Relationships, Finances, Health And Selfworth.
