Sara, a Jewish convert to the Christian faith, has established a new life in a foreign land. She must again recover after a suspicious fire destroys her home and restaurant. Friends offer help and encouragement. A startling revelation and another abduction lead to a deadly confrontation with the obsessed inquisitor Don Antonio Morales. At Saras lowest point, a miraculous reunion brings joy and a long tale of survival in the New World. But Sara now faces the likelihood of arrest by the Inquisition. She struggles with the cruelties of the Catholic church toward her people but gains strength from her family, friends, and a kind local priest. Sara must confront her fears and return to where she began. How will Sara face the trial she dreads? How do faith and courage grow? How will a dark secret and an old promise fulfilled help Sara finally find peace and the happy home she seeks?
Miles Alexander, son of an Alabama sharecropper, is a successful business and entertainment lawyer with interests as distant as Costa Rica, where—much to his law partners’ dismay—he is about to acquire a local restaurant chain from the notorious coffee baron, Humberto Cabrera, one of the wealthiest and most mysterious dons of Central America. Miles’ success however has distanced him from his roots, altered his belief system, his political views, and the values that shaped him. Fearing Miles will suffer the same fate as his grandfather, who was crippled at about Miles’ age, Mary Rose Alexander, the Dove, through a series of transpersonal (quantum) exchanges with Miles while he’s in Costa Rica, draws him back to Ohio, where upon his arrival she suffers a disabling stroke that marks the beginning of a long and sometimes painful journey, during which time, in the afterglow of his Mother’s Light, Miles’ rediscovers what is truly pleasing to his soul, revealed to him in his hometown, where he is forced to confront issues of race prejudice, poverty and hopelessness, that are part of Lessons of Home. Can he get beyond the sudden and jarring rift with his white law partner, the antagonist Reid Lowell? Can he rise above temptation and unbridled materialism, and embrace compassion and community over competition and individualism? Or will he return to his old ways and suffer the fate his mother is all too aware of? Reid Milbank Lowell, scion of wealthy planters from Georgia, finds that his financial and lifestyle interests in the continued success of the law firm, Alexander, Seasongood & Lowell, far outweigh Miles’ personal interests, leading to a conflict between the two men that is nothing less than a clash of cultures. The law firm, and its representation of rappers and others antithetical to Reid’s antebellum roots, has led Reid to stray from the path his fathers would have him follow. Will he continue along the same path and suffer the same fate as the mythical Narcissus in a classic case of Death by Envy? Or will he change in time to avoid a painful ending and the wrath of his ancestors?
Dove is a beautiful young woman who lives in rural Ethiopia. She has a heart to be married and searches for love every day. Each day she leaves the village to get away from her life as a young woman, longing for love. One day, Dove sees a group of young men who visit every year with the crusade in Ethiopia. She notices one young man in particular who notices her in return. She wonders if he might be the one to win her heart, and yet she feels uncertain. But when a prophetess tells her that what shes longing for is closer than she thinks, Dove reconsiders her reaction to the young man. She soon learns that his name is Destiny and she has fallen in love with himand he with her. Although there may be obstacles to their love, with hope and faith, Dove and Destiny will find a way to build happiness and a life together. In this novel, a young woman searching for love discovers it with a crusader on his annual visit to her Ethiopian villageand both of their lives change forever.
Dove's accessible, innovative methods allow readers to reap the benefits of meditation in any situation. Drawing on traditions and teachers, this work synthesizes the needs of contemporary life with attention to the full range of the human experience.
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! For then would I fly away, and be at rest.' Psalm 55:6 (KJV) There are many tears and much sorrow for this white dove, but it is happy with life! You will not understand this for years to come, but this wounded white dove will bring wonderful blessings to you and your family. You must believe this! Many years ago, an old woman delivered this message to Carl's mother on a dark, city street. Eight-year-old Carl and his seven brothers and sisters are mystified by this strange story. What is the importance of the wounded, white dove? How could a wounded white dove bring many blessings to such a large, deprived family? What hidden secrets must Carl uncover? Will Carl ever find the wounded white dove? Once again, Arthur Dale Likens weaves a beautiful story about an incredible, loving family living on a lonely, dusty road known as Anglin' Road. There are more struggles and adventures-blizzards, a possible murder, an abandoned tent, and Carl's beloved brother Glen's health is deteriorating. Friends-old and new-and loving relatives come to share in the laughter, the dancing, and the singing that echo across the valley.
