Download or read book Hope from the Ashes written by Jarzembowski, Paul E. and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the phenomenon that millions of people, many who are not otherwise active in the practice of their faith, come back to church to receive ashes and engage in Lenten practices every year. It offers some practical ideas for active Catholics to accompany newcomers and visitors throughout the season of Lent and beyond – and in so doing, help turn brief moments into memorable milestones on the journey of faith.
Download or read book Beauty Beyond the Ashes written by Cheryl McGuiness and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of September 11, 2001, Cheryl McGuinness kissed her husband good-bye as he headed off to work. She never saw him again. Tom McGuinness was the co-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11 -- the first airplane to crash into the World Trade Center. On that day, Cheryl's world fell apart. But since that day, Cheryl McGuinness has learned how to hope again. Through her powerful story, the rest of us can find our way to hope as well. Cheryl's message of renewal, recovery, and faith is a message that resonates with every aching heart. As you read through this intimate look at heartbreak and joy, you will discover an incredible sense of the good that is yet to be, and you will find in yourself a growing conviction that with God's help, you can face any sorrow or pain.
Download or read book Out of the Ashes We Rise written by Angela Dees and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do you turn for hope and encouragement when your life seems destroyed by the flames of adversity? Psalm 119:25 says, My life is down in the dust; give me life through Your Word (HCSB). Angela Dees has walked through the flames and adversity and has found hope and healing through Gods Word. Her personal journey began by journaling her moments with God during her husbands battle with cancer. She then began writing devotions for the Coping with Hope cancer support group she attends. This is a forty day compilation of those devotions; concise and focused, they invite you to rest in the arms of the One who cares about our every burden and fear. They are written from one hurting yet hopeful heart to another. Angela shares the inspiration shes received from Gods Word, highlighting His faithfulness and bringing strength and joy to continue growing in spite of lifes hurts and disappointments.
Download or read book CinderGirl written by Christina Meredith and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it possible for a young, homeless woman to overcome abuse, endure the foster care system, and rise to prominence to help others? CinderGirl tells Christina Meredith's incredible story of how she overcame these hardships to earn the title of Miss California and become an advocate for the vulnerable. Born into a large, working-class family in upstate New York, Christina endured years of abuse before entering the foster care system as a teenager. With nowhere to turn after she graduated from high school, Christina lived in her car for almost a year, working three jobs to survive. As she prayed in her car every day, Christina had no idea that in just a few years, her suffering would help others find healing. But she did know that she was destined for more, and she refused to give up hope, no matter the circumstance. In CinderGirl, Christina tells her piercing and poignant story of leaving behind homelessness to become Miss California and the founder of a nonprofit organization that provides advocacy for foster care children. With stunning vulnerability, Christina invites us into her childhood home and the heart of a child longing to be loved, challenging us to dig deeper into our own personal courage, even in the most difficult conditions. And in return, you'll learn how to: Dream big, even when you're at rock bottom Embrace the inherent worth that is yours in Christ Jesus Deepen your faith and your relationship with God Praise for CinderGirl: "Christina Meredith's life experience and real-life Cinderella story are beyond inspirational to me, and I'm so proud of her. She is an overcomer like few I've ever read about. But what impresses me the most is her desire to transform the foster care system and use her challenges to better the next generation." --Kristen Dalton-Wolfe, bestselling author and former Miss USA "Christina Meredith's story, which she tells with unique courage, follows a young woman's rise out of vulnerability, homelessness, and abuse to become a soldier, leader, and pillar in her community. Christina's spirited and empathetic soul shines through every page." --Jason Jones, author, activist, film producer
Download or read book Hope Rises from the Ashes written by L. F. Falconer and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destiny's path is not always a clear cut trail, a discovery the tinker's daughter is about to make in this dramatic sequel to Hope Flies on Broken Wings. Armed with little more than a tattered shirt, a whisper of hope, and a protective charm, Collie flees from the seaside ghosts of Donnel that haunt her soul and dares to cross into the Tillaman Realm. There, she succumbs to a charismatic young knight named Morgan who offers her sanctuary, only to learn that a pretty smile is not always to be trusted. Her ultimate fate is precariously held in the mind of a catatonic child, and a deep, winter snow has settled over the boundary mountains, blocking all roads of escape. Bound to Morgan and hopelessly entangled in a dangerous game of brutality and possession, all Collie wants now is to return home.
Download or read book Life from the Ashes written by Shari O’Loughlin and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does life go on after losing a child? Life from the Ashes shares the dark and raw story of Shari O’Loughlin’s loss of her 14-year-old son, Connor, who was shockingly killed in an airplane crash on his way home from a four-day vacation. Like all parents, Shari was struck with the most unimaginable nightmare when her family received the soul-numbing news. Parents trying to navigate the perilous journey of traumatic loss know the path is agonizing. Happiness, faith, and wholeness seem reserved for everyone else but them. Shari shares her story to help bring the same unexpected hope and healing she experienced to parents alike. She helps answer questions on how parents can trust again, feel happiness, and have faith after God let their child die. She addresses how to live with this new life, take steps toward healing, and live a more purposeful life after loss. In honor of Connor and her family, Shari shares her path from darkness to light so other parents may better find their way. Although Shari’s story shares the journey after the loss of a child, it contains tools that can help anyone who has suffered a loss of any type move forward in life.
Download or read book A Tempered Faith written by Jennifer Sands and published by Olive Press (NJ). This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God answers prayers. Jennifer Sands believed that. When she prayed for professional advancement, she got it. When she prayed for a mortgage approval, it came. When she prayed that her terminally ill brother be allowed to live, he was. When she prayed that her husband, Jim, return home safely from work, he always did. On September 11, 2001, Jim Sands was killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center. On that day, Jennifer's world imploded, and she suffered the first blows of a pounding spiritual firestorm that threatened to poison her faith and suffocate her relationship with God. Why would God answer her prayers for Jim's safety this way? Why would God send Jim to her as a soul mate only to rip him away in the prime of his life? Had God stopped listening? Had He stopped caring? Had they done something to deserve this? Book jacket.
Download or read book Rough Beauty written by Karen Auvinen and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Helen MacDonald’s H Is for Hawk, Karen Auvinen, an award-winning poet, ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life’s big questions with “candor [and] admirable courage” (Christian Science Monitor). Determined to live an independent life on her own terms, Karen Auvinen flees to a primitive cabin in the Rockies to live in solitude as a writer and to embrace all the beauty and brutality nature has to offer. When a fire incinerates every word she has ever written and all of her possessions—except for her beloved dog Elvis, her truck, and a few singed artifacts—Karen embarks on a heroic journey to reconcile her desire to be alone with her need for community. In the evocative spirit of works by Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich, and Terry Tempest Williams, Karen’s “beautiful, contemplative…breathtaking [debut] memoir honors the wildness of the Rockies” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “Rough Beauty offers a glimpse into a life that’s pared down to its essentials, open to unexpected, even profound, change” (Brevity Magazine), and Karen’s pursuit of solace and salvation through shedding trivial ties and living in close harmony with nature, along with her account of finding community and even love, is sure to resonate with all of us who long for meaning and deeper connection. An “outstanding…beautiful story of resilience” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Rough Beauty is a luminous, lyric exploration, “a narrative that reads like a captivating novel...a voice not found often enough in literature—a woman who eschews the prescribed role outlined for her by her family and discovers her own path” (Christian Science Monitor) to embrace the unpredictability and grace of living intimately with the forces of nature.
Download or read book Dancing on My Ashes written by Heather Gilion and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly and Heather share their story and help to walk the reader through the painful yet necessary healing process for when life deals us its harshest blows. Dancing on my ashes soothes and empathizes with the broken heart, while sharing the truth of scripture, and the hope that comes from the heart of God.
Download or read book Paradise in Ashes written by Beatriz Manz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. Manz, an anthropologist, spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala. In a political portrait of Santa María Tzejá, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s, Manz describes these villagers' plight as their isolated, lush, but deceptive paradise became one of the centers of the war convulsing the entire country. After their village was viciously sacked in 1982, desperate survivors fled into the surrounding rain forest and eventually to Mexico, and some even further, to the United States, while others stayed behind and fell into the military's hands. Manz follows their flight and eventual return to Santa María Tzejá, where they sought to rebuild their village and their lives. From publisher description.
Download or read book Hope in the Ashes written by Connie Lou Arcemont and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is my fourth poetry book. In this book, you will be able to walk with me through a lot of various storms and personal trials that I have gone through. It will also refresh your heart and stir up your spirit to praise God even in the ashes of your life. Hope in the Ashes is a book of poems that will enable you to see and understand that even as we all go through various storms and trials and dark, unknown paths, we can rest assured that God will never leave us or forsake us, and He will not put more on us than we are able to handle. But with every temptation, He will provide a way of escape. Even with the untimely death of our loved ones, or the abandonment of us by our lover, Jesus will still be there, reaching out to us. There is still hope in the ashes.
Download or read book Beauty and Hope from the Ashes written by Janice Diane Langford and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard work and sacrifice were paying off. He was on top of the world with great health, a strong network of family and friends, a long-term girlfriend prepared to say "yes" to his pending proposal, guiding faith, musical talent, countless friends, an engineering degree from Vanderbilt University, and a promising career and future. Then, with less than five seconds notice, it ended. As a parent, brother, significant other, family member, or friend, how do you react to that phone call in the middle of the night, every parent's worst nightmare? How do you move forward when you have just received the news that, until now, only happened to other people? Beauty and Hope from the Ashes transports you through the realities of unexpected suffering into a purposeful existence that embraces the past, seizes the opportunities of the moments, and anticipates the hope of tomorrow. Whether you are currently drowning in suffering or preparing yourself for the certainty of storms in life, hold on, there is HOPE!
Download or read book Among the Ashes written by William J. Abraham and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we hold fast to the hope of life eternal when we lose someone we love? In this book William Abraham reflects on the nature of certainty and the logic of hope in the context of an experience of devastating grief. Abraham opens with a stark account of the effects of grief in his own life after the unexpected death of his oldest son. Drawing on the book of Job, Abraham then looks at the significance of grief in debates about the problem of evil. He probes what Christianity teaches about life after death and ultimately relates our experiences of grief to the death of Christ. Profound and beautiful, Among the Ashes tackles the philosophical and theological questions surrounding loss even as it honors the experience of grief.
Download or read book Hope That Outlasts the Ashes written by Jennifer Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had a time when your life changed drastically? A diagnosis, a death, a move, a fight, or like me, a phone call? Every one of us will have a time in our lives when we look around and wonder what happened.When a phone call changed my life, I looked to the book of Job. I found Job sitting in the ashes, scraping himself with a potsherd, yet never wavering in his hope, his faith. How did he do that? How did he get through one of the most devastating days you could imagine without giving up? How can we build that kind of hope even in the good times?I believe that the answers are found in the book of Job. In the first section we will study how Job built his hope before he ever needed it and how that foundation carried him through. In the second section we study how Job kept his hope in the middle of sitting in the ashes of his destroyed life. In section three, we see the lessons that Job learned from his devastation.Join me as we learn these important lessons from God's Word on how to build and maintain hope that can outlast even the ashes.
Download or read book Hope and Ashes written by Kate Jenkins and published by 4 Horsemen Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The queen is dead, or so the rumors say. Following Collette's attack and near death, Zephraim's use of blood magic on Larent has everyone on edge. The travel party decides to bunker down in Barcomb Mill, Whyldon's old estate, for the winter. Already fraying at the edges, the group is nearly divided by the revelation of Nawalya's visions showing a possible attack on Collette. Back in Quenall, Zephraim suffers visions of the sister he killed while dealing with Riken and Rhoslyn's plans for the kingdom. He hopes sending Riken to Galel will alleviate some stress, but will it only make things worse in the long run? As news of the death of Collette spreads across the kingdom, Crem's rebellion begins dying out, but the former commander has more important things to worry about. His wife Diana remains in the castle acting as spy and confidante to their miserable king. Will Lord Barris's protection be enough to keep her safe? In the Nereid kingdom, Aphros has allowed Jayden and Ceto to travel to Coralia in search of Collette. Will they find help or even more horror and despair? Legends of Coralia: Hope and Ashes is the third novel in this epic fantasy series. This book contains LGBTQ+ themes, violence, revenge, discussions and depictions of genocide, sexual violence, adult language, and consensual sexual content.
Download or read book Beauty Beyond The Ashes written by Cheryl McGinnis and published by Howard Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After facing the death of her husband, who was the copilot of the first planeforced to fly into the World Trade Center, Cheryl shares how the Lord renewedher purpose and helped her rise above her circumstances.
Download or read book Celestia Chronicles The Ashes of Hope written by Anagha Ratish and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is no longer a fairytale. Perhaps it never was. Emberglass has slipped from the clutches of one evil queen to another; maybe Adaire is not the hero Celestia needs. It is better to turn away before she makes things worse, but Adaire is already too deeply entwined. And when Queen Sereia seeks her out, she must rethink where her loyalties lie. It is difficult to be the hero, but sometimes it is harder to be the villain.
