Download or read book Everything that Has Gone Wrong in Your Life Was for All the Right Reasons written by Frances Johnson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything that Has Gone Wrong in Your Life Was for All the Right Reasons By: Frances Johnson Frances Johnson wrote Everything that Has Gone Wrong in Your Life Was for All the Right Reasons to free you from the stronghold of your past, eliminating any trace of doubt about who you are after being barricaded under pain, hurt, rejection, and the failures of life that have determined your future. Understand that everything that has happened in your life was given permission to persuade you to become the hidden treasure of authentic pieces of realization of self-worth. If you could change the scene and characters in your story, what would that look like? Remember, where there is a problem, you are the solution to breaking ground truth and resolution of change.
Download or read book Everything Happens for a Reason written by Kate Bowler and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi “Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.”—Bill Gates NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God’s disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward “blessing.” She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son. Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. The prospect of her own mortality forces Kate to realize that she has been tacitly subscribing to the prosperity gospel, living with the conviction that she can control the shape of her life with “a surge of determination.” Even as this type of Christianity celebrates the American can-do spirit, it implies that if you “can’t do” and succumb to illness or misfortune, you are a failure. Kate is very sick, and no amount of positive thinking will shrink her tumors. What does it mean to die, she wonders, in a society that insists everything happens for a reason? Kate is stripped of this certainty only to discover that without it, life is hard but beautiful in a way it never has been before. Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live. Praise for Everything Happens for a Reason “I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Her writing is naked, elegant, and gripping—she’s like a Christian Joan Didion. I left Kate’s story feeling more present, more grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone. And what else is art for?”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and president of Together Rising
Download or read book Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person written by The School of Life and published by School of Life Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays extended from The New York Times' most-read article of 2016. Anyone we might marry could, of course, be a little bit wrong for us. We don’t expect bliss every day. The fault isn’t entirely our own; it has to do with the devilish truth that anyone we’re liable to meet is going to be rather wrong, in some fascinating way or another, because this is simply what all humans happen to be – including, sadly, ourselves. This collection of essays proposes that we don’t need perfection to be happy. So long as we enter our relationships in the right spirit, we have every chance of coping well enough with, and even delighting in, the inevitable and distinctive wrongness that lies in ourselves and our beloveds.
Download or read book When Bad Things Happen to Good People written by Harold S. Kushner and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an inspirational and compassionate approach to understanding the problems of life, and argues that we should continue to believe in God's fairness.
Download or read book Hyperbole and a Half written by Allie Brosh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!
Download or read book Why I Write written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Download or read book Create Your Art Career written by Rhonda Schaller and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you dreamed of creating a better future for yourself as an artist? Well now you can. Artist, educator, and career coach Rhonda Schaller provides insights and practical tools for readers to cultivate an inspired, sustainable art career. Both the established artist and the emerging creative will learn how to visualize a better future, empower their creativity, and build a career plan for artistic success. This fun-to-read self-help guide will change the way you think and validate the way you feel. Schaller gives artists many ways to solve career problems and plan the next steps, providing more than 50 unique career planning exercises and tools including creative visualization, self-assessment, and mind-map exploration. Based on her popular Creative Mind, Business Mind: Use of Creative Visualization in Career Planning course at the School of Visual Arts, chapters include Your Personal Vision, What Would You Do If You Couldn’t Fail, Visualizing Great Business Relationships, Artist as Entrepreneur: Attracting Funding, and Take Charge of Your Life. Required reading for every working artist who wants to have a creative career, this book will facilitate brainstorming and self-understanding for every career stage, and show artists how to apply their values and desires to become more successful.
Download or read book Don t Look Back Women of Justice Book 2 A Novel written by Lynette Eason and published by Revell. This book was released on 2010 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lovely but broken forensic anthropologist confronts her fears in this spine-tingling romantic suspense.
Download or read book The Wandering Human Nature written by YASHODHARA and published by Clever Fox Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book title, “THE WANDERING HUMAN NATURE”, is my first attempt at writing a book as a fresher in the writer’s club. This book has the potential of changing your life and enabling you to be more inclusive in nature,in order to have or maintain healthy human thoughts for the longest time, which could be beneficial to everyone. This book demonstrates and has answers to all the issues emanating from the whole gamut of human feelings fabricating several processes of human nature. The book is divided into seven parts and each part delves deep into a particular aspect of life and various nuances affecting human nature. The book emphasizes that understanding the core or central elements of human nature would help in the construction, formation and determination towards the path of truth, happiness and sheer gratitude for life. This book gives rise to few serious questions to the readers. Hopefully, through this book, I am able to answer most of the doubts. Over eight months has gone into creation of this fantastic book, which could act as an amazing guide for all of us to follow. This book truly highlights quality and essence of human nature that vacillates. I urge all of you to diligently follow the various guidelines, to lead a happy and stable life. I strongly believe that, we are what we think, so reason out, reflect over and rightly deliberate to live a life, awarded with awareness, so as to have a pleasurable filled-time to years of our existence.
Download or read book Get Off Your Attitude written by Ryan C. Lowe and published by Sound Wisdom. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has your attitude got to do with anything? Everything! Get Off Your Attitude means to think positive and take action—talk, believe, act, and think in a positive manner and change your life! Learn how to: Engage in positive relationships Passionately pursue your dreams Live in the now and forgive your past Smile at adversity Be courageous and have faith Be grateful and give back
Download or read book You Can Get Your Love Back Proven Ways to Stop Break Up and Win Back the Love of Your Life written by Jacob E. William and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody suffers when the love of their life decides to walk out on them. The pain they feel is inexplicable and cannot be felt from those who have never experienced their pain. So what are you left with when that happens? You feel that you and your ex had a special relationship together and that the breakup happened from a careless mistake. You want to get back with your ex and you want to apologize to them. However, none of what you've done has worked. Maybe you've doing something wrong, or maybe you've not approaching the situation properly. You want your ex to come back to you, but you don't know the proper way to do it. You want to produce results, but all your attempts have been useless. So what are you left to do? In this book, we will take a good look on the methods that you can take into getting your ex back into your life. Don't worry much about having to look for answers from different sources. This book will explain everything.
Download or read book Insignificantly Unique written by Bethel Bates and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While sitting on the front porch of her Detroit home, Unique Jefferson, takes an overview account of the details that had taken place in the last seventeen years of her life. She struggles with the murder of a Father that she loved dearly but never really got a chance to know. She wrestles with the idea of forgiving a mother who had abandoned her years earlier. Unique's world is turned upside down as she tries to figure out how to survive, at age fourteen, while providing food and shelter for a brother whom she has become both Mother and Father to. Unique loses her way and begins to give in to the thoughts of a defeated and irrelevant existence. But during a traumatic turn of events, she is lead on an unforgettable journey that would alter her life forever.
Download or read book Tributes Delivered in Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Deserve written by Rayol John Augustus Ph.D. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We overestimate what we can do in one year and underestimate what we can do in ten years. All of us have our own mountains to climb and conquer. One thing is certain: we will have to actively pursue success. It does not just happen. It is based on small everyday choices and efforts. It requires constant work and care. It requires us to be persistent, consistent, and patient. We may succeed, or we may fail. Every time we fail, it brings us closer to success. People who are successful are the ones who keep failing and getting up. The most important thing is not to quit trying. We have to start by selling ourselves to ourselves. Once we achieve some success, it is easy to forget all the small efforts we have put in over the years. So it is wise to take a good hard look into our life. We will see the long way we have come and appreciate every part of it. We need to appreciate ourselves and know that whatever we have we deserve. When we finally succeed, all that people see are the results. Suddenly, something you worked on for years looks like an overnight success. But as we know, success is never a coincidence. It is not a question of luck either. The harder we work, the luckier we get! If we want people to be aware of it, let them be a part of our journey. Let them know that whatever we have achieved, it is because we learned, we followed certain principles, we got out of our comfort zone, we changed, and we grew. What we have, we deserve.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stepping Up written by Donalyn Powell and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most cries of pain from teenagers are silent, and too often we only discover the true depth of their pain after suicide or other self-destructive behavior. In Stepping Up, teens speak openly about their struggles with suicide, depression, sex, drug addiction, pregnancy, abuse, bullying, and self-destructive behavior through their personal letters to author Donalyn Powell, a long-time youth and suicide-prevention advocate. To each letter, Powell offers personal and practical hope: even in the darkest situations, the pain will not last, and we are never alone. God has a purpose for each of us that we alone can fulfill, and it is God’s life in us that provides our reason for living, healing for our lives, and hope for the future.
Download or read book No Excuses written by Bob Stoops and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the legendary Oklahoma coach, a candid and inspiring memoir. When Bob Stoops took over as football coach in 1999, the Oklahoma Sooners were in disarray with back-to-back losing seasons. But in just two years' time, Stoops achieved the seemingly impossible: winning a national championship and returning the struggling Sooners to their powerhouse status, churning out NFL talent, Heisman Trophy winners and conference championships, bowl wins and national title runs on a regular basis. During his 18 seasons at OU, his record was a remarkable 190-48. At only age 56, at the peak of his career, he stunned the college football world by walking away. For the first time, Bob opens up about his career alongside the evolution of the game itself. From his unlikely emergence as a star player at the University of Iowa, to his coaching apprenticeships under giants like Hayden Fry, Bill Snyder, and Steve Spurrier, Stoops recounts how the game he fell in love with as a boy has evolved into a billion-dollar business often compromised by recruiting wars, aggressive agents, overzealous boosters and alumni, and the emergence of the CEO head coach rather than mentor and teacher. Bob holds nothing back while explaining why it was time to step away from the game-and players-he still loves. Told with a rare combination of sincerity, vulnerability, and pure heart, No Excuses is both an engaging and eye-opening football memoir and an unprecedented portrait of a coach of one of the greatest legacy programs in the history of the college game.