This book is about courage. It guides you how to overcome fear, anger, shame, and lack of trust that hinder you to fully experience the peace, joy, and love that you are. It teaches you what it means to be authentic, accepting your uniqueness. It shows you how to connect to your God Self through forgiveness, surrender, trust, gratitude, and unconditional love. Catherine plants seeds, the growing is up to you. Take this little book and let it speak to you; you may just find a "key" or have a "light go on."
In recent years "warrior" has become a buzzword. Most often it's used properly, though sometimes its use is a stretch of the definition. To seek out the true meaning of warrior and warriorhood, Loren W. Christensen - retired cop, war veteran, high-ranking martial artist and prolific author - went to the source, to those who live it. The writers who contributed to this work are some of the finest warrior authors, warrior trainers and warrior scholars today. They have been there and done that. Many have fought on the edge of death's yawning orifice, survived, and now teach others to do the same. Some are still in the trenches. Thirty-seven experts tell what it's like to kill, to sacrifice, to train, to fear, and do what needs to be done. Because that is what a warrior does.
In Courage in America: Warriors with Character, seven American warriors tell their stories of tragedy and triumph after suffering traumatic injuries and being faced with reestablishing their post-war lives. Through personal interviews, author Michael Kerrigan shows their courage and spirit as they beat the odds and overcome obstacles in the face of adversity. He reflects on their courage, leadership abilities, and military life, showcasing the good character of these young heroes, their caregivers, and families. The stories in this book will inspire, helping to motivate newly injured troops towards recovery, and giving Americans a better understanding of the sacrifices so many have made.
Warrior Mother is the true story of a mother’s fierce love and determination, and her willingness to go outside the bounds of the ordinary when two of her three adult children are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases. When Sheila Collins’s best friend, dying of breast cancer, asked her to accompany her through what turned out to be the last fourteen days of her life, she didn’t know that the experience was preparing her for what lay ahead with her own children. In the years that followed, Collins had to face both her son’s diagnosis with AIDS and her daughter’s diagnosis with breast cancer. Warrior Mother documents how she faces these challenges and the issues accompanying them—from learning to be the mother of a gay son to visiting a healer in Brazil on her daughter’s behalf when she decides on bone marrow transplant treatment. Experience as a professional social worker and family therapist doesn’t always help Collins to cope with her children’s illnesses—but her relationship with improvisational song, dance, storytelling, and women’s spirituality rituals carries her through. Warrior Mother follows Collins’s family through memorials and celebrations of lives well lived, all the while exploring the impact of grief on those left behind and the rituals that help them heal.
"[This book is] an ... examination of how we can respond to suffering, live our fullest lives, and remain open to the full spectrum of our human experience"--Amazon.com.
'Ashley bit her lip and clutched her purple and pink Bible tighter towards herself. Ashley thought to herself worriedly, What if this wasn't a good idea? Oh stop it, Ashley, everyone is sure to think that it's a good idea. Right?' Will the Girls of Grace be able to rescue the Crisis Pregnancy Center in time? Join them as they follow God's plan and experience big adventures along the way! Author Leah Eads constructs a vivid look into the life of some amazing young ladies who are serving God. From Girl's Club meetings to constructing a shelter in the woods; there is never a dull moment! Young readers will walk with them through struggle and fear, into freedom and trust in God. 'My husband and I have been blessed to have Leah as a part of our youth group these last few years. I have seen her grow into such a beautiful young lady with an even more beautiful heart for God. Leah has the wonderful gift of storytelling, but not only that, she teaches God's Word so passionately through that storytelling. I can't wait to share these stories with my own daughters. What a treasure to read an exciting story about young girls truly desiring to trust God and allowing Him to change their lives! I know you will be blessed when you read this book, just as I was.' Shaundra Baskin Associate Pastor's wife First Southern Baptist Church, Kingman, AZ
A Nation of Warriors... The Areli have fought back the darkness in their world for as long as history has been recorded. But now they find themselves faced with a new, deadly adversary. Faces a Deadly Foe... A Devil of unimaginable powers has entered their realm and will stop at nothing until every last one of them has been killed or possessed by the horde of demon spirits that follow her. By her cunning, the Devil has wrought a curse that destroys the very thing that gives the Areli their strength, leaving them weak and vulnerable to their enemies' attacks. And a Young Girl is Their Only Hope... Though young, Jade possesses the potential for powers from beyond her realm. She will need those powers to battle the Devil that secretly seeks to possess her body and use her otherworldly powers to not only destroy their world, but worlds without end. As her nation braces for the Heavenstorm, Jade must face her worst fears, and the Devil itself, to save her people.In the first book of this thrilling new trilogy, the battle to save the world is only the beginning.
National bestseller An ALA Notable Book Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, and the messengers of a changing earth—owls heralding grief, resilient desert plants, and a smooth green snake curled up in surprise. She celebrates the influences that shaped her poetry, among them Audre Lorde, N. Scott Momaday, Walt Whitman, Muscogee stomp dance call-and-response, Navajo horse songs, rain, and sunrise. In absorbing, incantatory prose, Harjo grieves at the loss of her mother, reckons with the theft of her ancestral homeland, and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member. Moving fluidly between prose, song, and poetry, Harjo recounts a luminous journey of becoming, a spiritual map that will help us all find home. Poet Warrior sings with the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery that we know as distinctly Joy Harjo.
WARS CHANGE, WARRIORS DON'T We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in. Do we fight by a code? If so, what is it? What is the Warrior Ethos? Where did it come from? What form does it take today? How do we (and how can we) use it and be true to it in our internal and external lives? The Warrior Ethos is intended not only for men and women in uniform, but artists, entrepreneurs and other warriors in other walks of life. The book examines the evolution of the warrior code of honor and "mental toughness." It goes back to the ancient Spartans and Athenians, to Caesar's Romans, Alexander's Macedonians and the Persians of Cyrus the Great (not excluding the Garden of Eden and the primitive hunting band). Sources include Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, Xenophon, Vegetius, Arrian and Curtius--and on down to Gen. George Patton, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, and Israeli Minister of Defense, Moshe Dayan.
