Download or read book The Restless Heart written by Ronald Rolheiser and published by Image. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful exploration of loneliness, in the tradition of Henri Nouwen's classic Reaching Out. Loneliness may be more pervasive now than at any other time in human history. Cell phones and "instant messaging" not withstanding, our longing for meaningful connections seems to increase in direct proportion to our accessibility. In The Restless Heart, Ronald Rolheiser identifies different types of loneliness and discusses the dangers and opportunities they represent in our lives. Using contemporary parables from literature, film, and his own life, he shows that loneliness can be a tremendously creative and even valuable force when it is recognized, accepted and used as a dynamic catalyst. With his trademark clarity of vision, honesty, and intelligence, Rolheiser offers a distinctively Christian approach to living an examined, involved life and presents suggestions that will free readers to discover greater meaning and fulfillment in their own lives.

Download or read book Restless Heart written by Wynonna Judd and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destiny Hart's dream of becoming a singer has come true. But with the exhilarating rush of success comes a price-and a battle to recapture the traditions that were her foundation. Reconnecting with what matters most, Destiny is putting an unexpected new spin on her career that wi;; redirect her life in ways she never imagined.

Download or read book Restless Hearts written by Marta Perry and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A search for her roots brought midwife Fiona Flanagan to Pennsylvania Dutch country—and made her wonder whether she should turn back. The area's mixture of Amish and English culture confused her, and her first encounter with local police chief Ted Rittenhouse didn't help. he'd thought she was breaking into her own office! Despite the misunderstanding, Fiona could see that Ted's tough-as-nails exterior hid a kind soul—one caught between two worlds, seeking a place to belong. She felt the same, but trusting him with her heart would require the biggest step of faith she had ever taken.

Download or read book On the Road with Saint Augustine written by James K. A. Smith and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★ Publishers Weekly starred review One of the Top 100 Books and One of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019, Publishers Weekly Christianity Today 2020 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation) Outreach 2020 Resource of the Year (Spiritual Growth) Foreword INDIES 2019 Honorable Mention for Religion This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us than we might expect. Following Smith's successful You Are What You Love, this book shows how Augustine can be a pilgrim guide to a spirituality that meets the complicated world we live in. Augustine, says Smith, is the patron saint of restless hearts--a guide who has been there, asked our questions, and knows our frustrations and failed pursuits. Augustine spent a lifetime searching for his heart's true home and he can help us find our way. "What makes Augustine a guide worth considering," says Smith, "is that he knows where home is, where rest can be found, what peace feels like, even if it is sometimes ephemeral and elusive along the way." Addressing believers and skeptics alike, this book shows how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks to the worries and struggles of contemporary life, covering topics such as ambition, sex, friendship, freedom, parenthood, and death. As Smith vividly and colorfully brings Augustine to life for 21st-century readers, he also offers a fresh articulation of Christianity that speaks to our deepest hungers, fears, and hopes.

Download or read book The Restless Heart written by Tami Hoag and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globe-trotting photographer Danielle doesn't think she'll survive six weeks in New Orleans, babysitting her sister's five children. She needs help-- and tall, dark, Cajun Remy is convinced she needs more than a nanny...

Download or read book Our Restless Heart written by Thomas Frank Martin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of Augustine of Hippo looms large over the history of western Christianity: theologian, mystic, monk, philosopher, artist, bishop, ascetic, convert, polemicist, seeker. Augustine's distinctive spiritual vision has played and continues to play a profoundly formative role in both imagining and living the Christian life. For some his presence is celebrated, for others it is lamented - for few can it be a matter of indifference. Thomas Martin's concise survey of this vast, complicated and controversial terrain begins with Augustine and his own restless heart and then traces the legacy of this spiritual vision as it is taken up by other restless seekers through the centuries. Our Restless Heart is a concise but masterly introduction to the Augustinian tradition which will stimulate beginner and specialist alike. Book jacket.

Download or read book Restless Hearts written by B.J. Daniels and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebels and Redemption Years ago, a Montana judge delivered his own brand of justice to teens who needed a second chance. Those rebels are now grown up, grateful and ready to return the favour. When Blaze McClintock hears her estranged father has been accused of murder, she knows he's going to need all the help he can get. But asking Jake Horn for a favour all these years later is the last thing she ever wanted to do. Together Blaze and Jake were like a wildfire when they were teenagers - they burned hot and they left destruction in their wake. That fire is still between them, but has it tamed their restless hearts?

Download or read book Hobo Mom written by Charles Forsman and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-Atlantic collaboration, Hobo Mom was drawn simultaneously. Both cartoonists’ clean line styles fit together perfectly to tell the story of Tom, who lives a simple life with his pre-teen daughter, Sissy. Her mother, Natasha, who left to hop trains and has become a vagrant, shows up on the doorstep of the family she abandoned years ago. There, Natasha finds an upset husband (who is still deeply in love with her), and a little girl yearning for a mother. Can someone who covets independence settle down?

Download or read book Philosopher of the Heart written by Clare Carlisle and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher of the Heart is the groundbreaking biography of renowned existentialist Søren Kierkegaard’s life and creativity, and a searching exploration of how to be a human being in the world. Søren Kierkegaard is one of the most passionate and challenging of all modern philosophers, and is often regarded as the founder of existentialism. Over about a decade in the 1840s and 1850s, writings poured from his pen pursuing the question of existence—how to be a human being in the world?—while exploring the possibilities of Christianity and confronting the failures of its institutional manifestation around him. Much of his creativity sprang from his relationship with the young woman whom he promised to marry, then left to devote himself to writing, a relationship which remained decisive for the rest of his life. He deliberately lived in the swim of human life in Copenhagen, but alone, and died exhausted in 1855 at the age of 42, bequeathing his remarkable writings to his erstwhile fiancée. Clare Carlisle’s innovative and moving biography writes Kierkegaard’s life as far as possible from his own perspective, to convey what it was like actually being this Socrates of Christendom—as he put it, living life forwards yet only understanding it backwards.

Download or read book Home for the Restless Heart written by Joshua Elzner and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-12 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God created this world to be a home for his children--a pilgrim-home but a home nonetheless. In other words, this creation is not our final and definitive home, since only in the innermost bosom of the Trinity will we find complete and definitive rest and perfect consummation. And yet this home of the Trinity's love and embrace is really and truly communicated to us in and through the beauty of created reality, such that this temporal world already in some way becomes a true dwelling-place, and not merely a land of exile and pilgrimage. Perhaps the central drama of our human existence in this fallen world is that creation is always both simultaneously: a home and a land of journeying, a garden dwelling-place and a desert of exile.But it will not always be this way. For the very material creation in which we find ourselves shares in our eternal destiny, our destiny to participate in the innermost life and love of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And insofar as it does so already, insofar as we encounter God already in the contours of time and space, these very contours become an expression of, and a foretaste of, our eternal homeland. In moments such as this, in which our heart is ravished by the glimpse of divine beauty touching us through created beauty, and cradling us through the goodness of reality that God himself has made, we experience eternity intersecting time. Indeed, we experience how this world--yes, this very imperfect and fallen world, marred by sin, strife, and division--is destined to be our eternal homeland, the living-space in which we dwell in intimacy with God, just as Adam and Eve experienced intimacy with God in the beginning in paradise, in which God himself walked familiarly with his children among the trees of the garden.Even if the creation apart from God is nothing, it is nonetheless true that God willed it to be something, and to be something very significant and full of eternal meaning. Yes, the creation itself has an absolute meaning in the plan of God, manifesting as it does God's own absolute value as pure and everlasting Love and Intimacy. And this is true in the highest way of each human person, who beyond all other creatures was created, as Vatican II says, "for his own sake" (Gaudium et spes, 22). The absolute value and dignity of every person is a reflection of and a participation in the absoluteness of God's own personal being, since it is rooted in his own singular love for them, in which he has known, willed, loved, and delighted in them from the bosom of his own eternity, and from this eternity brought them into being, and into this eternity seeks to draw them again. And in and through the human person, the whole of the impersonal creation is also drawn to its definitive fulfillment and consummation, since it is destined to share in the everlasting intimacy that God has chosen to have with his children, adopting them, in the beloved Son, into the innermost recesses of his own divine life.If this is true, then our gift and task within this world is not merely to flee from the world, from anything that might distract our attention from the heaven that awaits us, but also to seek to make contact, within the visible creation while also stretching beyond it, with the eternal renewal of all things that awaits us at the end of time. In other words, it is not only to journey on pilgrimage through this fallen world towards heaven, but also to let heaven become incarnate, even if imperfectly, within this world. After all, when Christ came into this world he brought heaven to earth. In him eternity entered into time, and the everlasting bliss of the Trinity kissed our fractured and yet beautiful earth. And through his Paschal Mystery--his Passion and Resurrection--Christ has spanned the distance created by sin and has woven all together again in a seamless fabric within the sinews of his own reconciling Heart.

Download or read book The Restless Heart written by Ronald Rolheiser and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over 20 years ago, The Restless Heart was the product of a lonely young man searching for meaning to his feelings of emptiness and isolation. In this edition, Rolheiser comments in the preacfe how timid we can become with maturity, and how re-reading his work he felt pride for his younger, braver self. Identifying different types of loneliness, the author reassures, challenges and frees the reader to live more meaningfully with solitude.

Download or read book A Reckless Heart written by Amy Clipston and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2012-05-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Amy Clipston (Amish Homestead series) presents a YA tie-in to her popular Kauffman Amish Bakery books with Reckless Heart, which follows a member of the Bontrager family as she deals with a mistake that could destroy her standing in the community. One wild night. One big secret. When Amish teen Lydia Bontrager stumbles home drunk after a forbidden party, it opens up a world of guilt. Part of her wonders why she agreed to go to that barn after the youth gathering—but the other half knows: to avoid the tensions at home. Lydia’s youngest sister is deathly ill, causing a strain on her parents and added expectation on her to be the good daughter and care for the household—in addition to working as a teacher’s assistant and helping part-time at her grandmother’s bakery. Adding to the stress, as Lydia feels even more restless and confused, Joshua, the only boy she’s ever loved, becomes increasingly distant. When an English boy moves in nearby, Lydia finds someone who understands her, but her community is convinced it is proof she’s becoming too reckless. With her sister’s worsening condition, a splintering relationship with Joshua, and her own growing questions over what is right, Lydia could lose everything that she’s ever held close. A Reckless Heart: directly connects to Amy Clipston’s bestselling Kauffman Amish Bakery series, but can be read as a standalone novel will appeal to fans of Amish and cozy fiction contains the universal themes of coming of age and dealing with societal pressure that are true for any teenager

Download or read book Stations of the Heart written by Richard Lischer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father’s heartbreaking and hopeful story about his beloved son, in which a young man teaches his family “a new way to die” with wit, candor, and grace. "A book after my own heart, profound, gorgeous, deeply spiritual and human, beautifully written, heartbreaking, but also, because of the writer's wisdom and spirit, triumphant." —Anne Lamott As the book opens, Richard Lischer’s son, Adam, calls to tell his father, a professor of divinity at Duke University, that his cancer has returned. Adam is a charismatic young man with a promising law career, and that his wife is pregnant with their first child makes the disease’s return all the more devastating. Despite the cruel course of the illness, Adam’s growing weakness evokes in him a remarkable spiritual strength. This is the story of one last summer, lived as honestly and faithfully as possible. Deeply moving and utterly lacking in sentimentality or self-pity, Stations of the Heart is an unforgettable book about life and death and the terrible blessing of saying good-bye.

Download or read book Restless Hearts written by Johnny R. Gibbs and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Author originally from Georgia and now resides in Texas (USA), writes a definitive collection of love poems based on his thoughts and experiences of love throughout his life. With his own brand of delightful and wise renderings of the first drawings of love-sought, longing, questioned, loss and found. It has a note of sincerity, originality and romance. His poem of Kiss me under the willow tree -Kiss me under the willow tree Melt my heart and set me free Free from bitterness that I regret Of lifelong hopeless until we met I feel so safe in your loving arms.. and If for only one night- which starts with: If for only one night You and I could be together I would make everything right For it to last forever.. Are examples on what definitely to read. It will take you to his heart and soul. Something you cannot pass on and a must read. -Rachel (Sherrie) R. Bundang California ladies Writing Journal On the The Cowboy And The Brown-Eyed Saloon Girl The story the Author weaves takes me willingly on a trip back in time. He presents an image of the harshness of the era and the desperation of the main character, softened with the underlying love story. This writer makes me want the story to continue. -Laware Kendrick Editor for The Goodman Corp for 25 years

Download or read book Middle World written by M. Haw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the microscopic world of quarks and atoms, and the macroscopic (observable) one of pebbles and planets, there is another world, strangely neglected by science. It is inhabited by things like pollen, DNA and viruses. Physicist Mark Haw tells the story of how scientists finally saw the restless middle world, having ignored it for so long.

Download or read book Taming the Restless Heart written by Gerald Vann and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When troubles threaten to drive God's peace from your heart, this book will restore it. You'll learn secrets that will help you accept God's will without becoming fatalistic, passive, or complacent.

Download or read book The Restless Heart written by Jessica Blair and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia Coulson is pretty and determined enough to attract any man's eye. George Chilton-Brookes, heir to the Cropton estate, is visibly enchanted by her, while handsome gentleman farmer Kit Fernley is also drawn to her looks and vivacity. Olivia wavers between her two suitors, eventually inclining towards the wealth and social position that marriage to George will bring - only to find that he has turned his attention elsewhere. So she marries Kit: handsome, attentive, loving...and in her eyes second best. Unable to forgive her fickle lover for his rejection of her, Olivia sets out to make George sorry he ever slighted her; becoming so intent on settling old scores that she is barely aware of the deadly danger her husband faces. Challenged by his father to undertake a long and perilous sea journey to the Arctic wastes, Kit accepts, comforted by thoughts of his wife awaiting his return and oblivious of the lengths to which Olivia will go to achieve her revenge.