A Swiss Immigrant's Heartfelt Life Story!I'm Edith Gross Prigge, here with my first great-grandchild, Cassandra Schulz, in December 1998.My Home is Where My Heart Is and my heart is right here in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Yet part of me will always belong to the old country since two of my kids and their families still live in Switzerland. I am remarried now and also have four stepchildren and five step-grandchildren. All together we have eight kids now, and
Using the relational development approach of Gordon Neufeld, the author offers a road map to making sense of the behavior of young children and understanding their developmental growth.
With over five million books sold, Nancy Tillman again proves that celebrating the love in families strikes a chord with parents and children everywhere.
Discovering Josue by Gloria Giovanna Discovering Josue is the heart-wrenching true story of an eighteen-year-old Mexican boy who was in severe pain and dying all alone of cancer. He had been in the hospital for over six months without a visitor or family. It was back in the year 2000 during the presidential elections. Most of the immigrants coming over the border didn’t mumble a word of English. When Gloria’s next client strolled into her beauty salon, he was an oncologist who had informed her about his patient Josue. As tears streamed down his face, he conveyed that there was nothing more they could do for him. “We don’t even know if he has any family. The only way we can converse with him is through the cleaning lady, Isabel. I know you can communicate in Spanish. Can you go visit him, Gloria?” After my first step of involvement, American, as well as Latino, communities congregated as their heart went out for the boy. We were no longer a race divided, we were united with God. All the Hispanics want to do is have work and make a better life for their family. This intensely emotional endeavor altered my life forever!
Imagine what your life would be like if you could trade your chaos for comfort. Yes, you can experience the calm and contentment promised in Scripture. In Come Home To Comfort, gifted speaker and author Sharon Hoffman spreads a welcome mat of wisdom, inviting you to trust God to refurbish the "home of your heart." Step by inspirational step, she helps you create a home of beauty and blessing, built on the firm foundation of Christ's comfort - a foundation sure to stand the test of time and trials. Brimming with warm, attractive, affordable decorating tips, helpful household hints, and charming ideas for making memories, you will discover how to find hope - even when your home and your heart need a miracle. This encouraging book also includes a nine-week Bible study for individual or small group study. Through Sharon's life-giving words, you'll discover in the end, that when you come home to comfort, you are really coming home to Christ!
PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.
Too often in this world, hatred, violence, and ugliness saturate our twenty-four-hour news cycle, capture our attention on city streets, and stain our view of human kind. But kindness, love, mercy, and compassion are stronger than all this negativity and evil combined. In this inspiring collection of stories, Susan Freire-Korn shares how individual women have overcome adversity to emerge stronger and more courageous than ever before. Written by three African American women, three Caucasian women, and three Hispanic women, these tales share how kindness can transcend our basic human differences and bring unity to our lives regardless of culture or race. Each woman offers a unique and uplifting tale of how they suffered through sometimes years of despair and hardship, but never gave up on their desire for a better life. Whether they endured teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, and domestic abuse or loneliness, depression, and low self-esteem, these women prove that no matter the circumstances of chance or culture, the human spirit can triumph and emerge stronger than before. An excellent reference for those seeking to understand cultural differences as well as for those looking for encouragement in their own lives, Soul Sisters, Come on to My House beautifully shows how opening your heart and your mind will make the world a better place for all.
The Pilgrim By: Mariana K. That’s how life is… that’s life! It raises you up, it knocks you down, but you go ahead by continuously wiping the dust off your hands, now scratching a knee, then wiping out another tear, but keep on going… you start it over and over again, whenever necessary, since the minutes elapsed cannot be turned back, nor redeemed, though you can make them count. You leave behind the days when you only dreamed your life, but you did not live it, the days when you have been through so many without asking for them, nor wanting things to happen, the feeling that the light would always be off and you find it hard to breathe, the time when the very self of you was just out of yourself, wandering throughout ways and winters. You turn all hardships smithereens and smoke, you invest the feelings in people and not in things, you go ahead even if still looking back, but life is ahead, it is in you and as long as you feel it, as long as you live it… come what may! Life is so beautiful and full that its hard tries no longer frighten you, ten years spent in solitude do not scare you, just to know that you are living, that you are part of the world, of the universe. Is that all it can be? Yet it is not. Life is… many more in one place, all that we laugh, what we build together, everything we love, all that gives us a sense, everything we weep at and suffer from, it means the years past and the ones that are right now and yet to come. It materializes itself in the seconds that pass through heartbeats in our breath deep inside our chest. We, ourselves, are the ones inside, the ones who live our life by clenching our fists and fall, ceaselessly hoping… consuming happiness and love, every living and feeling, to the last of its molecule and its very existence. We do not miss a thing. We never give up.
How do you know what love is if you’ve never been in love? Where do you look for the answer? Sent to Mexico on assignment by her law firm, Michael Madison, a young, talented, but naïve young woman becomes deeply, passionately involved with a married man. Realizing her affair with the wealthy Mexican will end badly she returns home hoping to resume her life and expecting the success of her assignment will advance her career. But fate has something different in mind. Leaving friends and family behind, Michael accepts a position with a small underfunded non-profit over a hundred miles from home. The dramatic changes in her life are further complicated when she meets a handsome doctor, but will her illicit affair always cast a dark shadow over her life.
