Silent Tears of a Preacher's Wife
Silent Tears of a Preacher's Wife

Author: Sherie Bell Green

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2004-04-12

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1414004710

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My first experience as a wife and a mother came much later in my life compared to many of my peers. God gave me the time to get things right with Him first. Above anything else, I had to know Him - really know Him - intimately and sacrificially. Knowing how to relate to Him as my Heavenly Father and seeing how He made the heavens and the earth in perfect order, I realized that He also expects us to function in the roles of men as husbands and women as wives according to His divine order. In His divine order, women have suffered often - usually without anyone else but God knowing the depth of our suffering. For all the suffering women - whether single or married, I pray this book encourages you to examine yourself against the Word of God to see if you are in your ordained position. We cannot ask for the promises of God's Word if we are out of position. For all the women who thought God had not seen all of their silent tears, I pray this book will show you just how much God loves you and wants to bless you!

The Silent Cry of A Minister's Wife: Surviving on Broken Pieces
The Silent Cry of A Minister's Wife: Surviving on Broken Pieces

Author: Shawnell Reed

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-07-06

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 0557421268

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The Silent Cry of A Minister's Wife: Surviving on Broken Pieces describes the victories and valleys of one coming to self-awareness and authentic identity. All can identify in some way with the details presented.

Silent Tears
Silent Tears

Author: Stephanie C. Smith

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2011-05-18

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 1449716156

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Silent Tears reveals the challenges, abuse, and control the author experienced during her marriage to a former pastor and her motivation to no longer be a victim but to become the victor. This book will be an inspiration to anyone who has been victimized in their life.

Crying Silent Tears
Crying Silent Tears

Author: D. Darcel Brown

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 1524604402

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This book is a testimony of my messed up start in life that I wanted to share with hurting individuals who are facing just as much adversity in life. I never gave up on me. More importantly God never gave up on me! I am an avid supporter of the less fortunate and the underdogs in life. I am a walking miracle who escaped the lowest forms of terror in my life. I have a wonderful family now and 15 grandkids that I love immensely. I taught them love and compassion for one another, these were some of the things I never experienced in life, so I poured into them. I want you to know YOU CAN MAKE IT TOO!!! I can do all things through Christ Jesus, who strengthens me! Philippians 4:13. Not a self help, it is a testimony! It is an autobiography and very graphic in nature. Everyone should read it!

Yasodhara and the Buddha
Yasodhara and the Buddha

Author: Vanessa R. Sasson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1350163171

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By combining the spirit of fiction with the fabulism of Indian mythology and in-depth academic research, Vanessa R. Sasson shares the evocative story of the Buddha from the perspective of a forgotten woman: Yasodhara, the Buddha's wife. Although often marginalized, Yasodhara's narrative here comes to life. Written with a strong feminist voice, we encounter Yasodhara as a fiercely independent, passionate and resilient individual. We witness her joys and sorrows, her expectations and frustrations, her fairy-tale wedding, and her overwhelming devastation at the departure of her beloved. It is through her eyes that we witness Siddhattha's slow transformation, from a sheltered prince to a deeply sensitive young man. On the way, we see how the gods watch over the future Buddha from the clouds, how the king and his ministers try to keep the suffering of the world from him and how he eventually renounces the throne, his wife and newly-born son to seek enlightenment. Along with a foreword from Wendy Doniger, the book includes a scholarly introduction to Yasodhara's narrative and offers extensive notes along with study questions, to help readers navigate the traditional literature in a new way, making this an essential book for anyone wanting to learn about Buddhist narratives.

Riddles of Belief...and Love: A Story
Riddles of Belief...and Love: A Story

Author: Lin Zhe

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 1608442845

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Beijing-based writer Lin Zhe's novel Waipode Gucheng, on which this translation is faithfully based, paints an unforgettable picture of an "ordinary" family caught up in the maelstrom that was China's most recent century. Her narrative ranges across the entire length of China, to California and back again, to the battlefields of the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance and the brutal "struggle" sessions of the Cultural Revolution. But it always returns to this family's home in Old Town, that archetypical, old-fashioned, and vanishing place steeped in the traditions of South China. Ms. Lin examines the inner strength that sustains people's lives in their darkest hours, when religious and political faith falter. And yet, a vein of irony and droll humor runs through this powerful story. Lin Zhe's novel may be understood as a love story, memoir, history, or allegory. For the non-Chinese reader it provides a rare and moving insight into Chinese lives in a century of fearsome upheaval.

When I Spoke in Tongues
When I Spoke in Tongues

Author: Jessica Wilbanks

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 080709224X

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A memoir of the profound destabilization that comes from losing one's faith--and a young woman's journey to reconcile her lack of belief with her love for her deeply religious family. Growing up in poverty in the rural backwoods of southern Maryland, the Pentecostal church was at the core of Jessica Wilbanks' family life. At sixteen, driven by a desire to discover the world, Jessica walked away from the church--trading her faith for freedom, and driving a wedge between her and her deeply religious family. But fundamentalist faiths haunt their adherents long after belief fades--former believers frequently live in limbo, straddling two world views and trying to reconcile their past and present. Ten years later, struggling with guilt and shame, Jessica began a quest to recover her faith. It led her to West Africa, where she explored the Yorùbá roots of the Pentecostal faith, and was once again swept up by the promises and power of the church. After a terrifying car crash, she finally began the difficult work of forgiving herself for leaving the church and her family and finding her own path. When I Spoke in Tongues is a story of the painful and complicated process of losing one's faith and moving across class divides. And in the end, it's a story of how a family splintered by dogmatic faith can eventually be knit together again through love.