They’re back! Naan and Pa Bailey are exactly where we left them – at the end of Leymor Road in the house with a purple door and a huge fig tree in the front garden. They are still trying to cope with looking after their cat MimiCleo and her best friends: three toys who have come to life – Pedro the parrot, Purple Ted, and Fraser Bear. At three and a half, the little tortoiseshell cat thinks she is an independent adult. The teddy bears are both aged six, and Pedro, known as Ped, is seven and rather good at maths and solving practical problems. He is closest in age to Naan and Pa’s first grandchild, Dexter, who lives in Southampton and is outwitted by his teds, Chew Bear and Bedtime Bear. It’s time to open the purple door and find out exactly what is going on inside Number 66, and in the homes of the Baileys’ neighbours: Miss Flora, Jim, and Mr. Ted.
Naan and Pa Bailey are back again, trying to cope with their cat MimiCleo, and three toys who come to life: Pedro the parrot, Fraser Bear, and Purple Ted. The animals are never far away from a crisis or an adventure, to the secret delight of the Baileys’ neighbours. They are Jim and his bear Mr Ted (who are both over 70!), Miss Flora, an expert cake maker, and Bill and Elsie, who have three cats. Not forgetting Isabel, MimiCleo’s vet and Pa’s rowing student. Why not open the door to number 66 Leymor Road, and find out what is about to happen, whether it is the toys meeting Selwyn Seal on the Thames, or MimiCleo stepping on Pa’s computer and paying the phone bill?
Do you really know what Spiders eat? Well, Spindly Legs certainly does, and he is determined to find his perfect meal. But first, Spindly Legs will be led on a very unexpected journey, where he will be introduced to some well loved animals along the way, who are all, surprisingly, scared of him and worried that he might eat them. As we learn more about the animals' fear of him, Spindly Legs must also be ready to face his own fears, discovering new places and embracing challenges of his own. Will Spindly Legs find his perfect meal after all?
“‘Jesus, where are you?’ I prayed every night as I wept . . . I felt I had failed as a priest, for I had preached love and the people made genocide. . . .Then I heard God speak to me. Jesus wanted me to use these experiences to evangelize later. It was then that I knew my life would be spared. God would make a way.” During the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga tells the dramatic story of how he survived while losing more than eighty of his family members and 45,000 of his parishioners in the killings. In the aftermath, Fr. Ubald experienced a renewed sense of purpose as a minister of reconciliation and a healing evangelist in his homeland and around the world. In Forgiveness Makes You Free, he offers five spiritual principles that can help those traumatized by the past to experience healing and peace in Christ. In 1994 the world looked on in disbelief and horror as Rwanda erupted in violent bloodshed. All across the landlocked African country, militant Hutus rose up to exterminate the Tutsi population, including women and young children. One hundred days later, a million bodies littered fields, streets, and even churches. Now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, a powerful testimony emerges of the power of God to bring peace and reconciliation into hearts full of fear and hate. In Forgiveness Makes You Free, Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga shares his own dramatic story of how he survived the genocide and its traumatic aftermath. He testifies about how God spared his life so that he might help others with deep physical, emotional, and spiritual wounds to experience peace and healing. In retelling the story of how he forgave the man who killed his family and cared for the man’s children while he was in prison, Fr. Ubald demonstrates how showing mercy can facilitate true forgiveness even in the most painful circumstances of our lives. Throughout the book, Fr. Ubald teaches about five spiritual keys that draw us to Christ, the only source of lasting peace: be thankful and have faith choose to forgive denounce evil decide to live for Jesus claim the blessing Each chapter combines Fr. Ubald’s story with reflection questions that guide readers along their own path of healing: from fear to faith, from shame to freedom, from isolation to reconciliation, from resentment to mercy, and from conflict to peace. The final chapter offers a guided meditation to help those who need to experience the power of God to release those held in bondage by fear and hate and to find the secret of peace. An appendix contains information about “The Mushaka Reconciliation Project,” a catechetical tool that has been used successfully by parishes in Rwanda, and could easily be adapted by parishes in the United States, to mediate reconciliation between individuals and groups who have become estranged by violence, trauma, and ethnic or cultural divisions.
They're back! Naan and Pa Bailey are exactly where we left them - at the end of Leymor Road in the house with a purple door and a huge fig tree in the front garden. They are still trying to cope with looking after their cat MimiCleo and her best friends: three toys who have come to life - Pedro the parrot, Purple Ted, and Fraser Bear. At three and a half, the little tortoiseshell cat thinks she is an independent adult. The teddy bears are both aged six, and Pedro, known as Ped, is seven and rather good at maths and solving practical problems. He is closest in age to Naan and Pa's first grandchild, Dexter, who lives in Southampton and is outwitted by his teds, Chew Bear and Bedtime Bear. It's time to open the purple door and find out exactly what is going on inside Number 66, and in the homes of the Baileys' neighbours: Miss Flora, Jim, and Mr. Ted.
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