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Author: Beatrice Masini
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781782859826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA squirrel wakes from hibernation feeling something is wrong with his home, and after consulting his forest friends realizes that their community is what makes a place right.
Author: Jentezen Franklin
Publisher: Whitaker House
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 1603741437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhom should I marry? What will I do with my life? Do I take this job? Should I invest money in this opportunity? God has bestowed an incredible gift in the heart of every believer. He has given you an internal compass to help guide your life, your family, your children, your finances, and much more. Jentezen Franklin reveals how, through the Holy Spirit, you can tap into the heart and mind of the Almighty. Learn to trust those divine “nudges” and separate God's voice from all other voices in your life. Tap into your supernatural gift of spiritual discernment and you will better be able to fulfill your purpose as a child of God.
Author: Elizabeth Berg
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2024-03-26
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0593446801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis beautiful novel by the beloved author of Open House and Talk Before Sleep tells the story of two young people growing up in Mason, Missouri, and how Arthur Moses, a shy young man, becomes the wise and compassionate person readers loved in The Story of Arthur Truluv. “A poignant tale of love, grief, and the resiliency of the human spirit.”—Kirkus Reviews A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Nola McCollum is the most desirable girl in Arthur Moses’s class, and he is thrilled when they become friends. But Arthur wants far more than friendship. Unfortunately, Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses—Arthur’s older brother, Frank, who is busy pursuing his own love interest and avoiding the boys’ father, a war veteran with a drinking problem and a penchant for starting fights. When a sudden tragedy rocks the family’s world, Arthur struggles to come to terms with his grief. In the end, it is nature that helps him to understand how to go beyond loss and create a life of forgiveness and empathy. But what can he do about Nola, who seems confused about what she wants in life and only half aware of the one who loves her most? Full of unforgettable characters and written with Elizabeth Berg’s characteristic warmth, humor, and insight into people, Earth’s the Right Place for Love is about the power of kindness, character, and family, and how love can grow when you least expect it.
Author: L. Patrick Carroll
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011-08-23
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1465355707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPat Carroll has lived and loved in interesting times. As an American he has lived through Depression to affluence to Recession, through Civil Rights Marches anti-Vietnam protests, sat with teenagers on bad LSD trips, had friends die of AIDS, witnessed Anti-Apartheid boycotts in South Africa, offered sanctuary to Salvadoran refugees. As Catholic he has been layman, priest, and, again, lay participant, insider and outsider, devotee, cynic and ineluctable member. As priest he was trained in the old church, served in the new and departed from one becoming much like the first. He served in schools, parishes, retreat house, mission lands, affluent neighborhoods and inner city ‘hoods,” presided over the first Jesuit co-ed high school, initiated the first program offering Ignatian Spiritual exercises to lay people, led by laity. More recently, living in a wondrous marriage, he has housed low-income seniors just off the street, then found himself immersed in health care issues both as too-frequent recipient and as historian for one of its largest providers. “The Right Place for Love” tells his fascinating story with wit and wisdom.
Author: Ryan Erisman
Publisher: Ryan Erisman, Inc.
Published: 2007-04
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1432703331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Melody Warnick
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-07-04
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 014312966X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the spirit of Gretchen Rubin’s megaseller The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you live The average restless American will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was move #6, from Austin, Texas, to Blacksburg, Virginia, that threatened to unhinge her. In the lonely aftermath of unpacking, she wondered: Aren’t we supposed to put down roots at some point? How does the place we live become the place we want to stay? This time, she had an epiphany. Rather than hold her breath and hope this new town would be her family’s perfect fit, she would figure out how to fall in love with it—no matter what. How we come to feel at home in our towns and cities is what Warnick sets out to discover in This Is Where You Belong. She dives into the body of research around place attachment—the deep sense of connection that binds some of us to our cities and increases our physical and emotional well-being—then travels to towns across America to see it in action. Inspired by a growing movement of placemaking, she examines what its practitioners are doing to create likeable locales. She also speaks with frequent movers and loyal stayers around the country to learn what draws highly mobile Americans to a new city, and what makes us stay. The best ideas she imports to her adopted hometown of Blacksburg for a series of Love Where You Live experiments designed to make her feel more locally connected. Dining with her neighbors. Shopping Small Business Saturday. Marching in the town Christmas parade. Can these efforts make a halfhearted resident happier? Will Blacksburg be the place she finally stays? What Warnick learns will inspire you to embrace your own community—and perhaps discover that the place where you live right now . . . is home.
Author: Ben Pester
Publisher: Boiler House Press
Published: 2021-04-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781911343806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the extraordinary mind of debut writer Ben Pester comes a book of stories in which the everyday - work, parents, friends - is not quite what it should be. Taken together, it forms a collection of things we are doing right now, in this lost and terrifying world we are gamely attempting to inhabit. Things like worshipping an imaginary being while trying to be productive; or slowly dying and having nothing to say about it except how tiring it was building the kitchen extension. Unsettling, original and occasionally monstrous, these are stories that light the contours of the ordinary world with a shimmering unreality.
Author: Alan E. Nelson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780840776488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing biblical, historical, and contemporary examples of brokenness, this practical and theoretical look at the process of being spiritually broken as a part of God's character-building process shows that true servanthood is not built on skills or position, but on those very character traits God has built through brokenness.
Author: Michael Poore
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2017-08-22
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 039917849X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself. “Tales of gods and men akin to Neil Gaiman’s Sandman as penned by a kindred spirit of Douglas Adams.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) First we live. Then we die. And then . . . we get another try? Ten thousand tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to “get it right.” Answer all the Big Questions. Achieve Wisdom. And Become One with Everything. Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has just five more lives to earn a place in the cosmic soul. If he doesn’t make the cut, oblivion awaits. But all Milo really wants is to fall forever into the arms of Death. Or Suzie, as he calls her. More than just Milo’s lover throughout his countless layovers in the Afterlife, Suzie is literally his reason for living—as he dives into one new existence after another, praying for the day he’ll never have to leave her side again. But Reincarnation Blues is more than a great love story: Every journey from cradle to grave offers Milo more pieces of the great cosmic puzzle—if only he can piece them together in time to finally understand what it means to be part of something bigger than infinity. As darkly enchanting as the works of Neil Gaiman and as wisely hilarious as Kurt Vonnegut’s, Michael Poore’s Reincarnation Blues is the story of everything that makes life profound, beautiful, absurd, and heartbreaking. Because it’s more than Milo and Suzie’s story. It’s your story, too. Praise for Reincarnation Blues “The most fun you’ll have reading about a man who has been killed by both catapult and car accident.”—NPR “This book made me laugh out loud. And then a page later, it made me sob. Reminiscent of Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore, Poore finds humor in the dark absurdities of life.”—Chicago Review of Books “Charming . . . surprisingly light and uplifting . . . It reads like a writer having fun.”—New York Journal of Books
Author: Lin Jensen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-07-12
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0861717910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Together Under One Roof, Lin Jensen turns his keen eye and powerful prose explicitly to the teachings of the Buddha, to traditional Zen stories, and to the practices of meditation and compassion--as well as the intricacies of everyday language and the natural world, truth and beauty, family, and the myriad ways our simplest actions affect our whole lives. His previous two works, memoirs of growing up and growing old and of the hard-won but gentle wisdom gained in his daily public meditations for peace, were both critical successes earning a special place in readers' hearts. This book takes up symphonic variations on one main theme: we are all "in it" together, we are all living under one roof--and there's always a glowing hearth right here in this, the Buddha's household.
