Download or read book Patches of Joy written by Velma Seawell Daniels and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1999-03-31 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the kind of book that, having read it, you'll want to travel a thousand miles to meet the author. It should be kept forever handy for instant rereading when the spirit is down." -John Frasca, Pulitzer Prize winner The theme of this book is joy. The characters, whether famous or ordinary, have at least one thing in common-they have inspired others through acts of faith, hope, and love. Here, one can read stories about people like Corrie ten Boom and other fascinating individuals. Velma Seawell Daniels tells of how the many people she has known have affected her life by the way they lived their own lives. Pelican's Patches of Joy will replenish your soul.
Download or read book Joy and Patches written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mending Matters written by Katrina Rodabaugh and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide explores visible mending techniques in both hands-on projects and thoughtful insight about how mending relates to mindful well-being. Mending Matters explores sewing on two levels: First, it includes more than twenty projects that showcase visible mending—styles that are edgy, modern, and bold, yet draw on traditional stitching. It does all this with just four simple mending techniques: exterior patches, interior patches, slow stitches, darning, and weaving. In addition, the book addresses the way mending leads to a more mindful relationship to fashion and to overall well-being. In essays that accompany each how-to chapter, Katrina Rodabaugh explores mending as a metaphor for appreciating our own naturally flawed selves. She also examines the ways in which mending teaches us new skills, self-reliance, and confidence, all gained from making things with our own hands.
Download or read book Patches of Joy for the Scratches of Life written by Cindy Smith Woods and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Radical Joy for Hard Times written by Trebbe Johnson and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of uncertainty and devastation--from pandemics to environmental catastrophe--a call to action for finding beauty, creating art, and healing in community. When a beloved place is decimated by physical damage, many may hit the donate button or call their congressperson. But award-winning author Trebbe Johnson argues that we need new methods for coping with these losses and invites readers to reconsider what constitutes “worthwhile action.” She discusses real wounded places ranging from weapons-testing grounds at Eglin Air Force Base, to Appalachian mountain tops destroyed by mining. These stories, along with tools for community engagement—ceremony, vigil, apology, and the creation of art with on-site materials—show us how we can find beauty in these places and discover new sources of meaning and community.
Download or read book Gesundheit written by Patch Adams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine • Tells the story of Patch Adam's lifetime quest to transform the health care system • Released as a film from Universal Pictures, starring Robin Williams Meet Patch Adams, M.D., a social revolutionary who has devoted his career to giving away health care. Adams is the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, a home-based medical practice that has treated more than 15,000 people for free, and that is now building a full-scale hospital that will be open to anyone in the world free of charge. Ambitious? Yes. Impossible? Not for those who know and work with Patch. Whether it means putting on a red clown nose for sick children or taking a disturbed patient outside to roll down a hill with him, Adams does whatever is necessary to help heal. In his frequent lectures at medical schools and international conferences, Adams's irrepressible energy cuts through the businesslike facade of the medical industry to address the caring relationship between doctor and patient that is at the heart of true medicine. All author royalties are used to fund The Gesundheit Institute, a 40-bed free hospital in West Virginia. Adams's positive vision and plan for the future is an inspiration for those concerned with the inaccessibility of affordable, quality health care. Today's high-tech medicine has become too costly, impersonal, and grim. In his frequent lectures to colleges, churches, community groups, medical schools, and conferences, Patch shows how healing can be a loving, creative, humorous human exchange--not a business transaction.
Download or read book Joyful Mending written by Noriko Misumi and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyful Mending shows you how to repair and improve old items of clothing by turning tears and flaws into beautiful features. Simply by applying a few easy sewing, darning, felting, or crocheting techniques, as well as some sashiko and other favorite embroidery stitches, you can repair your favorite pieces in a transformative way. Along with her own philosophy of mindfullness and Wabi-Sabi mending, author Noriko Misumi teaches you how to: Repair any kind of fabric that is torn, ripped or stained--whether knitted or woven Work with damaged flat or curved surfaces to make them aesthetically pleasing again Create repairs that blend in, as well as bold or whimsical visible repairs Darn your handmade or expensive gloves, sweaters and socks to make them look great again The joy to be found in working with your hands and the personal artistry you discover within yourself lie at the heart of this book. While nothing lasts forever, there's pleasure, as well as purpose, in appreciating age and imperfection. Joyful Mending allows you to surround yourself with the things that truly give you joy, whether they were given to you by a loved one, picked up in your travels or simply have a special place in your heart.
Download or read book Patches written by Kelly J. Freund and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There once was a town of unhappy people where only sad frowns were worn. They longed For The day that real joy would reign, leaving their lives transformed. Join author Kelly Freund and discover how these townspeople learned a valuable lesson-that Patches are only temporary fixes for their brokenness and that true joy comes from just one source. Venture along with them as they uncover the secret to turning frowns upside down!
Download or read book The Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aching Joy written by Jason Hague and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his oldest son was diagnosed with severe autism, pastor Jason Hague found himself trapped, stuck between perpetual sadness and a lower, safer kind of hope. This is the common struggle for those of us walking through the Land of Unanswered Prayer. Life doesn’t look the way we expected, so we seek to protect ourselves from further disappointment. But God has a third path for us, beyond sadness or resignation: the way of aching joy. Christ himself is with us here, beckoning us toward the treasures hidden in the darkness. Aching Joy is an honest psalm of hope for those walking between pain and promise: the aching of a broken world and the beauty of a loving God. In this place, rather than trying to dodge the pain, we choose to feel it all—and to see where Jesus is in the midst of struggle. And because we make that choice, we feel all the good that comes with it, too. This is Jason’s story. This is your story. Come, find your joy within the aching.
Download or read book Black Joy written by Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When writer, Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts wrote a piece for The Washington Post, "My daughter reminded me that black joy is a form of resistance" she had no idea just how much or how widely it would resonate with parents across America. As a Professor of English and Race Studies, and a writer whose work focuses on the intersection of race, trauma and healing, she knew that Black joy is truly a weapon of resistance, a tool for resilience. In the outpouring for more on the subject, Tracey saw there was a need for something longer than a thousand words on the subject"--
Download or read book Spirit of Eden written by Rita Simons and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline Taman only intended to go for a short hike in the mountains close to town. But, when she blunders into what she assumes are drug dealers in the woods, she is drawn into the company of a man whom she soon learns is not a man at all. He tells her his name is Sylvan, and he is a spirit of the wilderness, but also a lover of humanity. The two of them find out that the criminals she met have far more sinister plans than dealing drugs. They intend to sell a unique form of radioactive rocks to terrorists, but even they are ignorant of how great a threat the rocks pose. The criminals are soon forgotten as Caroline and Sylvan find themselves in an impossible death race to keep the radiation of the rocks from spreading through the world. Bonded together by love for each other and God, they face the struggle with only the wildlife and Sylvan's unimpressive horses for allies.
Download or read book Pawpaw Patch written by Janice Daugharty and published by Janice Daugharty. This book was released on 1997-02-13 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chanell, a small-town Southern beautician, finds herself suddenly shunned by regular clients and lifelong friends. When the reason for the social lynching comes to lightand the power of racial hatred rears its ugly headChanell discovers that the unspoken past of her town is alive and well. But Chanell decides to fight back. An intense and honest, powerful and evocative novel of old passions in the New Southfrom a critically acclaimed Southern writer.
Download or read book Grand Avenue written by Joy Fielding and published by Seal Books. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four women, the bonds of friendship had sustained them for twenty years, through marriage, motherhood — and murder. Looking back, it seemed like paradise — lives filled with the blessings of friendship, marriage, children and career. Over twenty years, four friends shared everything through good times and bad, and together they faced the challenges of life and love head on. Now, one of their number sits alone to ponder the strange twists and turns of fate and the unpredictability of circumstance. Now, she must sift through each of their pasts to discover exactly what went wrong, how dreams turned to nightmares, how friendships faded and how lives were destroyed. In this powerful novel, Joy Fielding explores the bonds women forge, the nature of friendships, and the meaning of unconditional love.
Download or read book The Graphic written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plum Patch written by Pamela Joy Pugh and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She'd always been achy while other people were the alpha or the aitch.When Jackie at last finds her place of belonging-in a group of guineveres and pershores-she is determined to preserve her spot. She has finally learned to like today. Yet today inevitably becomes tomorrow. Can Jackie manage unbidden events without falling into old patterns?Intriguing words and veiled references to the plum are folded into this engaging story of a family, a neighborhood, and a church as Jackie and her mother, Grace, consider what's past and what's coming, face disappointment, and risk seeking joy in the day.
Download or read book Century Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
