Download or read book A Woman s Journey in Verse written by Laraine Patricia Bunt and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of poems is a personal journey written from daily reflections and looking back through the pages of my life, by putting pen to paper I have been able to deal with the pain and heartache from incidents out of my control, the beauty that surrounds me that is God created and the utmost joy and pleasure that is part of my life as I learn, grow and develop into a person I can be proud of. I wish to thank the encouragement from my daughter Kimberley who has collaborated with me in putting this book together, my husband Colin who has lovingly allowed me to use him as a sounding board and last but not least David whose insatiable thirst for prose pushed me into putting it all out there for others to read. If it inspires just one other women to search her being and find the courage to put pen to paper and take the journey within and let her spirit soar and lay to rest her pain and share her joy then my job is done.
Download or read book She Walks in Beauty written by Caroline Kennedy and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry's eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman's life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life's journey. The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, Dorothy Parker, Queen Elizabeth I, Lucille Clifton, Naomi Shahib Nye, and W. B. Yeats. Whether it's falling in love, breaking up, friendship, marriage, motherhood, or growing old, She Walks in Beauty is a priceless resource for anyone, male or female, who wants a deeper understanding and appreciation of what it means to be a woman.
Download or read book Lavender written by Tiffany Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Tiffany Nicole, and for the last 10 years I've been growing through an anxiety disorder. What started off as something that was incredibly debilitating became the source of much of my strength. This book is my journey through healing. A compilation of many words, thoughts, and poems I've written to help encourage me, push me, motivate me, bring me closer to myself and God. It is my hope that in reading this you find yourself empowered from whatever your personal journey is presenting to you right now. God enables us all to dig deep into the depths of who we are to discover the power within - and emerge triumphant. I was told that I wouldn't be able to get off of that rollercoaster of emotions. That I was destined to live a life of constant instability. That I couldn't heal myself. And for many years I believed that to be true.Until one day, I decided differently.This book is a product of that decision.
Download or read book Majestic Nights written by Carolyne Wright and published by White Pine Press (NY). This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Bengali women love in times of social transition and political upheaval? These poems look at how Bengali women tell their truths of the heart and mind through their struggles for equality, opportunity, and recognition in a changing society. The poems follow a subtle trajectory through the stages of love: first love; marriage; separation; aging and death; and ultimate supreme, universal love, of which romantic love is an imperfect reflection. Carolyne Wright spent four years collecting and translating Bengali women's poetry. Wright is a poet herself, and her most recent collection is A Change of Maps.
Download or read book Abacus of Loss written by Sholeh Wolpé and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Sholeh Wolpé's memoir in verse, the poet wields an abacus as an instrument of remembering. Bead by bead, she takes the reader on a journey of love and exile, loss and triumph"--
Download or read book A Young Woman s Secret Book of Erotic Love Poems written by Barbara Farabee and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Kind of Woman written by Kate Baer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A Goop Book Club Pick "If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer."--Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend. “When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed.” So ends Kate Baer’s remarkable poem “Things My Girlfriends Teach Me.” In “Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels” she challenges her reader to consider their grandmother’s cake, the taste of the sea, the cool swill of freedom. In her poem “Deliverance” about her son’s birth she writes “What is the word for when the light leaves the body?/What is the word for when it/at last, returns?” Through poems that are as unforgettably beautiful as they are accessible, Kate Bear proves herself to truly be an exemplary voice in modern poetry. Her words make women feel seen in their own bodies, in their own marriages, and in their own lives. Her poems are those you share with your mother, your daughter, your sister, and your friends.
Download or read book Voyage of the Sable Venus written by Robin Coste Lewis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" (The New York Review of Books) meditation on the black female figure through time. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. In the center of the collection is the title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present—titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewis's own autobiographical poems, "Voyage" is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know. A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly begin—five hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who adores her culture and the beauty to be found within it. Yet she is also a cultural critic alert to the nuances of race and desire—how they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history. Lewis's book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of race—a full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.
Download or read book Iran Memories and Other Poems an Iranian American Woman s Journey written by Zahra Karimipour and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zahra Karimipours poetry paints a nostalgic picture of life in 1950s Boroujerd, a small town in the west of Iran. The realities of life in Boroujerd reveal a picture of a preindustrialized society, where life had not been touched by advanced machinery; life was simple, but vibrant. Karimipours memories of other places in Iran such as Tehran and the Caspian Sea are emotional accounts of her reflections on endearing memories. Her poem Oh, Caspian, shows her longing for the times she visited the Caspian Sea; her poem Ah, Tehran, reveals her regret of losing a city to population explosion and urbanization.
Download or read book The Women of the Bible Speak written by Shannon Bream and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The women of the Bible lived timeless stories—by examining them, we can understand what it means to be a woman of faith. People unfamiliar with Scripture often assume that women play a small, secondary role in the Bible. But in fact, they were central figures in numerous Biblical tales. It was Queen Esther’s bravery at a vital point in history which saved her entire people. The Bible contains warriors like Jael, judges like Deborah, and prophets like Miriam. The first person to witness Jesus’ resurrection was Mary Magdalene, who promptly became the first Christian evangelist, eager to share the news which would change the world forever. In The Women of the Bible Speak, Fox News Channel's Shannon Bream opens up the lives of sixteen of these Biblical women, arranging them into pairs and contrasting their journeys. In pairing their stories, Shannon helps us reflect not only on the meaning of each individual’s life, but on how they relate to each other and to us. From the shepherdesses of ancient Israel who helped raise the future leaders of the people of God, to the courageous early Christians, the narrative of the Bible offers us many vivid and fascinating female characters. In their lives we can see common struggles to resist bitterness, despair, and pride, and to instead find their true selves in faith, hope, and love. In studying these heroes of the faith, we can find wisdom and warnings for how to better navigate our own faith journeys. The Women of the Bible Speak outlines the lessons we can take from the valor of Esther, the hope of Hannah, the audacity of Rahab, and the faith of Mary. In broadening each woman’s individual story, Shannon offers us a deeper understanding of each, and wisdom and insights that can transform our own lives today.
Download or read book The One Year Life Verse Devotional written by Jay K. Payleitner and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The One Year Life Verse Devotional" contains stories of well-known authors, speakers, athletes, and entertainers and the Scripture verse that has special significance to them. Uncover how these key verses helped define their role in Gods plan. (Practical Life)
Download or read book Through the Door of Life written by Joy Ladin and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman—Joy Ladin. In Through the Door of Life, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self. With unsparing honesty and surprising humor, Ladin wrestles with both the practical problems of gender transition and the larger moral, spiritual, and philosophical questions that arise. Ladin recounts her struggle to reconcile the pain of her experience living as the “wrong” gender with the pain of her children in losing the father they love. We eavesdrop on her lifelong conversations with the God whom she sees both as the source of her agony and as her hope for transcending it. We look over her shoulder as she learns to walk and talk as a woman after forty-plus years of walking and talking as a man. We stare with her into the mirror as she asks herself how the new self she is creating will ever become real. Ladin’s poignant memoir takes us from the death of living as the man she knew she wasn’t, to the shattering of family and career that accompanied her transition, to the new self, relationships, and love she finds when she opens the door of life. 2012 Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography, or Memoir “Wrenching—and liberating. . . .[it] opens up new ways of looking at gender and the place of LGBT Jews in community.”—Greater Phoenix Jewish News “Given her high-profile academic position, Ladin’s transition was a major news story in Israel and even internationally. But behind the public story was a private struggle and learning experience, and Ladin pulls no punches in telling that story. She offers a peek into how daunting it was to learn, with little support from others, how to dress as a middle-aged woman, to mu on make-up, to walk and talk like a female. She provides a front-row seat for observing how one person confronted a seemingly impossible situation and how she triumphed, however shakingly, over the many adversities, both societal and psychological, that stood in the way.”—The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide
Download or read book Beautiful in God s Eyes written by Elizabeth George and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty is more than skin deep— it starts in the heart and works outward Exploring the timeless wisdom of Proverbs 31, Bible teacher Elizabeth George reveals how you can become a woman of true beauty—a woman who desires to honor God in all that she says and does. Beautiful in God's Eyes helps you make each day immensely meaningful as you delight in God and discover how to... experience instant progress toward personal goals manage daily life more effectively tap into unlimited energy apply biblical principles to enhance relationships move from the ordinary to the extraordinary You can experience a richer, more exciting spiritual walk as you embrace God's design for true beauty in your life.
Download or read book The Bible in a Year Bible Study Book written by Kandi Gallaty and published by . This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a day and age when the demands on a woman's time are great, and our hearts are pulled in countless directions. It's no surprise that many of us struggle to implement daily Bible reading as a practice. But it doesn't have to be that way! Like Mary who "made the right choice" (Luke 10:42) when she stepped back from the busyness of life to sit at the feet of Jesus and listen to His teaching, God wants you to experience the life change that happens when you prioritize spending time with Him. In this one-year journey from Genesis through Revelation, walk through key passages of the Bible at a manageable, five-days-per-week pace. Based on the 260-day Foundations Bible reading plan, you'll engage with daily devotional content, interactive questions, and Scripture memorization challenges, all designed to grow your relationship with God and your knowledge of Him. By using the H.E.A.R.T. journaling method, you'll learn to highlight, explain, apply, respond to passages, and record the truths you find in Scripture, allowing for practical application throughout the year-long plan. Features: A 52-week Bible reading plan that guides you through foundational passages of Scripture Commentary and insights into each day's reading that help you understand God's Word Journaling and Scripture memorization tips that encourage real-life application Leader guide with questions and discussion for discipleship groups 4 Coaching videos, approximately 15-20 minutes in length, to help launch your group as you begin meeting together, plus 1 video especially for the leader, available for purchase or rent Benefits: Develop a passion for the Word of God to experience deeper intimacy in your relationship with Christ. Get a picture of the larger narrative of Scripture. Understand how Scripture helps you answer the questions: Who am I? Who do I want to be? How could I grow in godliness?
Download or read book Psalms From A Woman s Heart R written by Deborah Oresegun and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you find true love? Even in today's downturn, love is recession-proof. This modern-day woman's perspective invites you to experience vicariously the unconditional, perfect and true love that walks through the new millennium book of Psalms. Using her life as the backdrop, she shares her secret to having healthy love relationships and chronicles her intimate pathway in poems such as: - Worthy - A Deeper Love - Sister Circle - A Woman's 23rd Psalm - Juicy Woman This new era book of poetry traces the author's journey from heartache to healing inviting you to come along. It promises to have you smiling, crying, cheering and falling in love. Advance praises for Psalms from a Woman's Heart "Soul-stirring, heart-opening, uplifting, encouraging . . . More than rhyme and right on time, for the times we're in, for the journey ahead and for our spirits to be rightly fed." - Debrena Jackson Gandy, best-selling author of All the Joy You Can Stand "A deep, reflective and uplifting poetry devotional for today's woman; use it as a source for personal inspiration, public reading, sharing with a friend or for a special occasion . . . it's a sanctuary in a book." Dawnn Mitchell, author, poet, filmmaker of Striking Deborah Oresegun is a certified life coach, writer, speaker and poet. She is a modern-day prophetess who advocates spiritual principles of empowerment such as the message of self-love found in her poetic memoir, Psalms from a Woman's Heart. Deborah is the founder of Daughters of the Father, a faith-based rites of passage sisterhood for women and girls to promote the celebration of womanhood. She is an entrepreneur and president of The Palm of Deborah Enterprises. Deborah lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and three children.
Download or read book The Lavender Book written by Margaret Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the varieties of lavender. Includes a collection of lavender wisdom and a treasure trove of original recipes and craft ideas.
Download or read book Jesus Feminist written by Sarah Bessey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences. A freedom song for the church. Sarah Bessey didn’t ask for Jesus to come in and mess up all her ideas about a woman’s place in the world and in the church. But patriarchy, she came to learn, was not God’s dream for humanity. Bessey engages critically with Scripture in this gentle and provocative love letter to the Church. Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences. It’s at once a call to find freedom in the fullness, hope, glory, and work of Christ, and a very personal and moving story of how Jesus made a feminist out of her.
