Download or read book Your Scars Are Beautiful to God written by Sharon Jaynes and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical scars represent a story, a moment in one's life, and they show others that there is a history of healing. Noted author Sharon Jaynes shares with women how their internal scars—marks from past hurts and mistakes—also represent a story of restoration. With empathy, personal insight, and a best friend's gentle spirit, Sharon helps readers: recognize Jesus through their scars receive grace and forgiveness remove the mask and be real restore the broken heart release the power of healed wounds Encouraging chapters, inspirational stories, godly wisdom, and a Bible study guide lead readers to give their wounds to the One who sees their beauty and who turns hurts into hope.

Download or read book Healing Ever After written by Kristie Addair Guard and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years into a marriage with her high school sweetheart, author Kristie Addair Guard admitted the “happily ever after” just wasn’t, and it didn’t show any signs of getting there. However hard she tried, the lies she’d been given in childhood held a tight grip. She remained enthralled to those fears—being unwanted, unloved, abandoned, and unimportant. In a last-ditch effort, she walked away in search of healing and happiness on her own, but instead she met Jesus, the one who would deliver her from those fears. She learned that God is always at work in hearts. Through his word, through therapists, through time, and always through his loving, tender, kind presence, he brought Kristie first to her own healing, and then to a marriage that wasn’t what she dreamed of, but one that was exactly the best for her. Healing Ever After shares her story, a story of heartbreak, of healing, and of redemption. It’s a story of Jesus making beauty from ashes—his favorite kind of artistry, and available to you, too, wherever you are.

Download or read book Words from the Heart written by Tracy Elvina King and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally, "Words From the Heart" was only writings and thoughts in a Journal. However, it became chapter after chapter, story after story of the Author's inner thoughts/ It also included adjoining and relevant scriptures to tell the entire story, putting her words into context.

Download or read book The Forgotten Survivors of Gun Violence written by Loren Kleinman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The toll of America’s gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost—more than 35,000 each year. Ignored, almost completely, are the many more people who are shot every year, and survive. —Shot and Forgotten, The Trace “Nearly 40,000 people die from gun violence in the US every year. This uniquely American crisis leaves no community untouched—but it doesn’t have to be this way.” —Gabrielle Giffords The Forgotten Survivors of Gun Violence collects 20 personal essays of survivors’ visible and invisible wounds from school shootings, attempted suicide by firearm, mass shootings, gang violence, and domestic violence. Their stories remind us that these traumatic experiences are not exclusive to combat soldiers but, more notably, suffered by ordinary people during modern life. With this collection, editors Loren Kleinman, Shavaun Scott, Sandy Phillips and Lonnie Phillips expose the true lifecycle of a bullet and the trauma left in its wake. Through personal narratives and select personal photos, the wounded tell a story that’s forgotten when the cameras go away. This collection will be of interest to first responders, officers, therapists, medical practitioners, and educators.

Download or read book Queen of Fury written by Natania Barron and published by Rebellion Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-12-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One by one the kings of Braetan kneel before King Arthur under a banner of peace. Hwyfar, eldest daughter of King Leodegraunce and famed libertine of Carelon, has returned to Avillion to find her father ruined by madness and a usurper poised to take the throne. Reluctantly she takes the mantle of Queen Regent to protect her kingdom, but she’ll need an army—which King Arthur pledges to send her, providing she marries one of his knights and surrenders the crown. Arthur’s forces arrive under the command of Gawain of Orkney, who Hwyfar remembers as a brute; but she comes to realise he is not the man she thought he was, and finds herself irresistibly drawn to him. But Arthur has plans for her, and has commanded Gawain to keep well away—and in Arthur’s court, without the King’s blessing, love is treason. Hwyfar and Gawain must navigate both a world of ancient forests and corrupt magic, and the political machinations of two courts, if they have any hope of escaping Arthur’s ever-tightening grasp.

Download or read book I m Under the Watchful Eyes of God written by Nadia Awwad and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up, author Nadia Awwad received compliments on her looks and her slim figure and began modeling professionally at age fifteen. Like many, she struggled with an identity crisis. Her ambition was to be a supermodel, but after an encounter with Jesus Christ, she found that she was God’s model. Later, she discovered that the world brought her outward happiness, but Jesus filled her soul with joy. Struggling between the world and the Word, her decision would change her life. Would she follow her will or Jesus’s will for her life? Eventually, she forsook everything and ran to God for his divine purpose. She tells a story of great devotion to ministry followed by crisis after crisis, which left her with a broken heart. Never losing hope in the Word, she conquered every difficult trial, inspiring people to be overcomers. That means trusting Jesus while going through storms in life.

Download or read book Show Me Where it Hurts written by Kylie Maslen and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal essay meets pop-culture critique in this unflinchingly honest collection about chronic illness and misogyny in medicine, by Adelaide writer Kylie Maslen

Download or read book 365 Days of Hope written by Susan Parry-Jones and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For survivors of traumatic experiences like abuse, the goal is to forget. But like a beach ball that we try to hold under the water, things keep bubbling up. We get triggered. Memories wont fade. The past refuses to stay in the past. Recovery is a personal journey towards wellness that involves intense workallowing pain to surface, allowing grieving to occur, and learning new ways of looking at ourselves and our pasts. 365 Days of Hope is a refreshingly honest book that is like taking a walk through the recovery journey with a friend beside youoffering insight, support, and encouragement because he or she knows the journey. Set out in 365 stand-alone sections, this book builds from basic ideas about finding support and learning how to take care of yourself to dealing with gritty issues like identity, sexuality, grief, and becoming your own hero. It helps survivors learn skills like learning to use positive affirmations and managing negative self-talk. It is practical and thought provoking and invites readers to participate in their own recovery process. We all need a little hope, and this book is about providing survivors of abuse with 365 days filled with hope for their own recovery journey.

Download or read book Unwritten written by Serena Akeroyd and published by Cazzy Productions. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insatiable. Eager. Hopeful. Universal truth: Romance readers always want more. The next chapter, the next book, the unwritten words living in their favorite author’s mind. What happens next? How could you do that to my babies? I wonder what was going on in the other character’s head… You’ll never have all the answers, but inside these pages, you’ll get just a bit of the Unwritten. Nineteen previously unwritten stories all for your curious little heart to devour. Come see what’s going on with Serena Akeroyd’s Feckers, Crystal Ash’s Shadow, Kathryn Moon’s Lola and pack, and so many more of your favorite characters. All proceeds for this Anthology will be donated to the beloved member of the indie community, Izzy Hix, in hopes of helping her and her family as she recovers from a long and complicated hospital stay due to Covid-19.

Download or read book As seen through the eyes of a disabled woman Cerebral Palsy A Beauty to be discovered written by Tylia Flores and published by Tylia Flores. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing you the story of Tylia L. Flores, a multiple-time published author and disability activist, Cerebral Palsy a beauty to be discovered tells how she conquered despite the many challenges and obstacles her condition brought to her. With a condition that society does not understand, she brings a whole new perspective to self-love.

Download or read book To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods written by Molly X. Chang and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She has power over death. He has power over her. When two enemies strike a dangerous bargain, will they end a war . . . or ignite one? “A thrilling tale of magic and murder, intrigue and betrayal.”—Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sword Catcher Heroes die, cowards live. Daughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen. Blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal bodies, Ruying shouldn’t have to fear these foreign invaders, but she does. Especially because she wants to keep herself and her family safe. When Ruying’s Gift is discovered by an enemy prince, he offers her an impossible deal: If she becomes his private assassin and eliminates his political rivals—whose deaths he swears would be for the good of both their worlds and would protect her people from further brutalization—her family will never starve or suffer harm again. But to accept this bargain, she must use the powers she has always feared, powers that will shave years off her own existence. Can Ruying trust this prince, whose promises of a better world make her heart ache and whose smiles make her pulse beat faster? Are the evils of this agreement really in the service of a much greater good? Or will she betray her entire nation by protecting those she loves the most?

Download or read book Entering the Darkness of Pain and Lies written by Ali and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My eyes are filled with tears. I dont even know what to do anymore. His breath warms up my neck. I guess this is goodbye, I say. I guess so, he responds. I never thought this moment would come. Its the moment in which we are forced to say goodbye. Will you marry me? he asks. Suddenly I freeze. I feel like everyones eyes are now focused on us. The sun shines brighter than ever this time of July. The strong breeze awakes me. Yes. Yes. A million times yes, I say sarcastically. I dont know if I meant it or if I was still in shock, but this is all happening too fast. He takes my hands in his. I promise I will make you the happiest woman in the world because you have made me the happiest man in the world. Uh-huh. I nod. He gets up and kisses me.

Download or read book Broken Blue Line written by Alistair Livingstone and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Broken Blue Line is a rollercoaster of a ride depicting the realities of twenty-first-century policing on the front-line. Its well written, honest and informative. Alistair Livingstone put his life on the line, and now he's put his heart on the line. Courageous and human. Highly recommended.' Mike Pannett, author of Now Then Lad . . . and Crime Squad As a police officer, Alistair Livingstone was dubbed Supercop by the media for making more arrests than any other officer in the UK. But then Ali broke down. Broken Blue Line is the vividly told story of what brought him to that point, and the beginning of his slow, painful recovery. Ali was dubbed Supercop for making more than 1,000 arrests over one eighteen-month period, when the average arrest rate for officers in England and Wales is just nine a year. In his work as a police officer, he dealt with life-and-death situations on an almost daily basis: saving lives as a hostage negotiator; rescuing the occupant of a house fire; providing tactical advice during some of the most violent incidents; clinging onto a suicidal man hanging from the roof of a multi-storey car park; and entering a flat that had been blown up in an explosion just moments before. Ali was also engulfed in the aftermath and devastation of losing a colleague and friend who died doing the job she loved, and he witnessed the unprecedented response to the serial killings in Ipswich and the profound effect it had on the community and the police. But then an agonising and debilitating mental breakdown left the seemingly indestructible sergeant desperately seeking help. After almost two decades helping some of society's most vulnerable people he became so troubled by what he had seen and done in the line of duty that he hit rock bottom. Ali had no option but to walk away from the job that had defined him to embark on his biggest challenge yet: regaining his mental health. Ali's book offers an insight into the real world of modern policing: the demands and challenges faced by frontline officers throughout the UK. Ali's hope is that by opening up about his experiences and his struggle to regain his mental health in this no-holds-barred account, he will help to remove some of the lingering stigma that attaches to mental illness within the police and other professions and prevent others from making the same mistakes that he did. Ali says that he thoroughly enjoyed being a police officer and got to experience the sharp end of policing in so many different ways. When he finally made the decision to leave he was devastated and the months that followed his breakdown were the toughest he'd ever faced. Now that he is on the road to recovery, he hopes that by sharing his story it'll shine a light on the challenges of modern policing and the toll it can take, and, in doing so, to help others.

Download or read book STILL HOT written by Kaye Adams and published by Black & White Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every menopause has its own story. It's time we told them . . . The menopause. What even is it? One big theme unites Still Hot!'s 42 stories - that, somehow, the world doesn't ready us for this. The menopause - let alone the perimenopause - simply isn't talked about; instead, it's reduced to a comic hot flush. More and more of us are proudly stepping free of the menopausal closet, but the Big M is still a conversation whispered below the radar. No one tells you it will be like this. No one prepares you for it. That silence is lifting, slowly. So let's be bold, let's overshare. Let's find solidarity among Still Hot!'s myriad voices - wise, rebellious, measured, fierce, upfront - telling how the menopause is not just one story, but many. Telling, in fact, that this is not the menopause, it is YOUR menopause. FEATURING Sahira Ahmad Belcher Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Shalini Bhalla-Lucas Sharon Blackie Erica Clarkson Marie Louise Cochrane Bunny Cook Tracey Cox Jody Day Paulette Edwards Felicity Everett Helen FitzGerald India Gary-Martin Tania Glyde Julie Graham Angie Greaves Shahzadi Harper Michelle Heaton Yvonne John Lorraine Kelly Jane Lewis Pinky Lilani Andrea Macfarlane Danusia Malina-Derben Nimmy March Alison Martin-Campbell Pippa Marriott Val McDermid Sharmila Mehta Louise Minchin Louise Newson Susie Orbach Penny Pepper Miranda Sawyer Carol Smillie Anthea Turner Melissa Wall Kirsty Wark Sayeeda Warsi Denise Welch Trinny Woodall Xinran Xue "There's a menopause club. Once you've been through it, you go, That's it, I can do anything now." KIRSTY WARK "Once we stop bleeding, once we stop having children, once we go through the menopause, it's not over. In fact, it can be a very empowering time." JULIE GRAHAM "We mustn't be scared of the menopause . . . I always say, Don't suffer in silence. Get help. There is help out there. There is understanding." LORRAINE KELLY "Many women, when they go through menopause, happen to be going through things in their life anyway. You wonder, does one galvanise the other?" TRINNY WOODALL "There is no one-size-fits-all for menopause." DENISE WELCH "It's not THE menopause. It's YOUR menopause." KAYE ADAMS

Download or read book My I Can Story written by Albert L. Mokokoane and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of personal stories about a boy who grew up in the countryside. My “I Can” story is the story of a boy born to a single mother and meets his father for the first time while he was a teenager. Despite growing up with challenges to make ends meet; he managed to climb the academic ladder to hold a University degree and patent clothing brand. This is the life story of an achiever-oriented heart that provides lessons that are my life experiences and one may use it as a motivational steering wheel in his or her life. It is about how repeatedly he has shown that he can do irrespective of the insurmountable odds. When he saw American people walking on the moon it was evidence that dreams really work when one or a group of people work on it. He began to associate his ambitions with American Dream_ the belief that anyone, regardless of where they were born or what class they were born into, can attain their own version of success in a society where upward mobility is possible for everyone. It is achieved through sacrifice, risk-taking and hard work, rather than by chance.

Download or read book Ansburry Tales written by Thomas Wright and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Digby is a typical fifteen-year-old boy who spends his days playing video games and goofing off with his friends. But when Sams dad enrolls him in karate class, everything changes. His social agenda is messed up, and, worse, he gets the feeling hes being watched. When Sam overhears a mysterious conversation that refers to him in a way he doesnt understand, he immediately goes to his best friend, Zach. Much to Sams surprise, Zachsomeone hes known his whole lifereveals himself as someone whos been watching over him for many years. In the magical world of Ansburry, Sam has a history and a destiny that he can barely begin to imagineand that destiny will put him in grave danger if he doesnt begin to believe the unbelievable. With danger lurking around every corner, Sam must come to grips with his past and prepare for a fantastical future in Ansburry Tales: The Redeemer.

Download or read book Confessions of a Shattered Mind written by Erin Elizabeth and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to World Health Organization (WHO), depression occurs in persons of all genders, ages, and backgrounds. It is a common condition affecting about 121 million people worldwide and is among the leading causes of disability. But how much do people know of the victim’s struggles and suffering due to this disorder? Author Erin Elizabeth offers a glimpse into the truths of this issue as she relates her own personal journey through depression in Confessions of a Shattered Mind, a revealing, enlightening, and inspiring book filled with a collection of the author’s diary entries, poems, and lyrics to songs that helped her make it through the toughest times of her life. This book is designed to help people understand depression and experience the roller coaster ride each person dealing with it takes him or her on. Confessions of a Shattered Mindreveals Elizabeth’s experiences to provide readers with an overview of what depression is all about and how it affects the life of the victim and those around them. It is a true story of the darkness and the struggle to overcome this disorder among life and the constant battles. The beneficial purpose of this release is to help those who are going through depression, bipolar disorder, mania and anger management problems, or any mental disorder. Through Confessions of a Shattered Mind, readers will find a better understanding about depression and will eventually lead them to be able to cope with their battles and finally winning against it.