This workbook will help those people who contemplate or attempt suicide and professionals and family members that help them. This book was created by people who have attempted, or at least wanted the pain to end. They have collectively thought through the process and figured out what worked for them and allowed them to thrive. While this workbook doesn't cover every aspect of life, we are certain that when one area in one's life improves, other areas will as well. You deserve a beautiful life. We hope this workbook helps every one that picks it up.
Hope De Pinto is born into an affluent, famous, and very successful family. Over time, unexpected events cast gloomy shadows over the fame, fortune, and prestige of Hope’s family and the city of Avenice that they founded. Fate places the responsibility on Hope to turn the tide of socio-economic decadence and hopelessness and regain his family’s former glory. Overwhelming events beyond Hope’s control threaten to derail his determined and concerted efforts. Rather than falling into a dismal pit of discouragement, Hope intentionally draws on hope to navigate seemingly insurmountable difficulties. When it appears that triumph has eluded Hope, the virtue of hope itself guides him to see a guiding light at the end of the tunnel. This reawakens the previously dormant potential in Hope to challenge and overcome the complex hurdles that stand between him and the success he desires—because Hope will not be a victim but a victor.
Dreamcare: A Theology of Youth, Spirit, and Vocation helps parents, youth workers, and congregations cultivate purpose and vocation in youth and young adults. Recent findings disclose a pervasive sense of purposelessness that threatens young adults' health and well-being, and also the common good. The good news is that research shows all young people also have an often hidden sense of purpose that can be noticed, named, and nurtured by parents and communities. This volume supplements research with findings from Emory's Youth Theological Initiative (YTI), which identifies four pathways--desire, joy, compassion, and responsibility--by which young people discover a sense of purpose. Growing from research at YTI, this volume provides concrete suggestions for how Christian communities might engage young people in practices to cultivate a sense of purpose, including narrative resources by which to make theological sense of their impulses of desire, joy, compassion, and responsibility.
Historians of modern German culture and church history refer to "the Awakening movement" (die Erweckungsbewegung) to describe a period in the history of German Protestantism between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the Revolution of 1848. "The Awakening" was the last major nationwide Protestant reform and revival movement to occur in Germany. This book analyzes numerous primary sources from the era of the Awakening and synthesizes the current state of German scholarship for an English-speaking audience. It examines the Awakening as a product of the larger social changes that were re-shaping German society during the early decades of the nineteenth century. Theologically, Awakened Protestants were traditionalists. They affirmed religious doctrines that orthodox Protestants had professed since the confessional statements of the Reformation-era. Awakened Protestants rejected the changes that Enlightenment thought had introduced into Protestant theology and preaching since the mid-eighteenth century. However, Awakened Protestants were also themselves distinctly modern. Their efforts to spread their religious beliefs were successful because of the new political freedoms and economic opportunities that the Enlightenment had introduced. These social conditions gave German Protestants new means and abilities to pursue their religious goals. Awakened Protestants were leaders in the German churches and in the universities. They used their influence to found many voluntary organizations for evangelism, in Germany and abroad. They also established many institutions to ameliorate the living conditions of those in poverty. Adapting Protestantism to modern society in these ways was the most original and innovative aspect of the Awakening movement.
In five interwoven meditations, Mystical Hope shows how to recognize hope in our own lives, where it comes from, how to deepen it through prayer, and how to carry it into the world as a source of strength and renewal.
Hope is the leitmotiv of Jÿrgen Moltmann's theology. Not merely one aspect of his project, hope is the whole of it, the supreme doctrine interpenetrating all others. Indeed, hope is his method. The present study is both historical and developmental while also being analytical and interrogative. This chronological exploration seeks to show the nature, composition, and development of Moltmann's doctrine of hope, as the distinctive doctrine of his theology, implicating all others. Part I establishes Moltmann's doctrine of hope as grounded in God's faithfulness in the cross and resurrection. Part II investigates major doctrines in his project in light of this ground. This design seeks to take advantage of the chronological approach while also integrating the best elements of a topical approach.
Are you a parent who has ever asked the question, Where did this child come from? The HOPE Tribe opens up conversations about soulful living and childrens soul blueprints. It provides insights and ways to interact with our child that bridges gaps, connects you to their soul purpose, and supports you on the journey of parenting. Its practical, its an easy read, and most importantly, it is a new way of thinking about our childrens gifts and abilities. Its empathic parenting tools for empathic children! With diagrams to help link behaviors to mindful interventions and strategies, it is concepts that meet action. This book will be the starting point for creating your own HOPE Tribe and to support you in one of the greatest gifts and most difficult tasks of your liferaising a child.
In the journey of life, we encounter twists and turns, unexpected obstacles, moments of complacency and doubt, as well as beautiful peaks of joy, love, and inspiration. This collection seeks to capture the essence of life's fabric through poems focused on principles and concepts that shape us at our core. Divided into three sections, the book opens with a series of poems reflecting on the ups and downs we face, the resilience and determination to push through challenges to achieve our highest dreams. Titles like "Getting Through It to Get to It" depict the necessity of perseverance, while "I Got Through It and Got to It" celebrates the triumphs and growth that emerge on the other side. These serve as a prelude to the main body of the collection: an epic series of 52 poems titled "52 Spiritual Principles," which focuses on embracing virtues and practices to enrich our lives on the journey. Principles like surrender, honesty, courage, awareness, and love are brought to light through poetic form, connected to inspirations from everyday acts of kindness to biblical scriptures and parables. Readers can reflect weekly on absorbing these universal lessons to tap into shared sources of truth, empathy, and understanding. Finally, the book culminates with a 12-part poem sequence dramatizing the 12 Steps, the guiding philosophy for recovery from life's darkest moments back into light. The final piece offers a holistic take on the collection, reminding us while life's terrain may continually change, the journey centered in courage and spiritual growth never ends. This collection offers readers many access points for self-reflection, whether focusing on one thing that resonates or soaking up all inspiration. It is the myi⁸ hope that, among these pages, readers discover not only empathy but ignite that inner spark to persevere through all manner of twists and turns, wherever the road of life leads next.
