Download or read book Winter Is Not Forever Seasons of the Heart Book 3 written by Janette Oke and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh Jones realizes his family isn't typical, but it's the only life he's ever known. Aunt Lou, Gramps, Uncle Charlie, Grandpa--they all have shaped the young man he has become. But as he grows into manhood, Josh begins to face important questions about life, love, and faith. Three million books sold in the series!
Download or read book No Winter Lasts Forever written by Fran Tilton Shelton and published by Loving Bob. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first-hand account of loving and living with Alzheimer's. It shares the shock, disbelief, anger, pain, joy, humor, grief and finally letting go. It is the story of trusting in God and living in the moment while being grateful for every day. Bob and Fran found much joy and peace while watching the robins in their backyard. Yes it is the story of a terrible disease striking too many families; but more than that it is a love story."Bob and Fran's story will touch your heart, it will make you cry and make you laugh but even more it will give you hope." Dr. Scott Black-Johnston, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian, New York, NY, USA"This book is a must read for all who seek to find guidance, compassion, and comfort in the face of Alzheimer's. Fran's writing is real, raw, honest and inspiring, and seeks to bring dignity to those who fight this horrible disease, as well as wisdom and hope to those who walk with them." The Rev. Holly Hoppe, Co-Pastor, Grace Presbyterian Church, Pflugerville, Texas"As someone whose wife has Alzheimer's, I am profoundly grateful for Fran's compelling account of Bob's life, including their last years together struggling with an insidious disease. In her rendering, the human traits of delight and despair are on full display." J. Andrew Dearman, Professor of Old Testament Fuller Theological Seminary
Download or read book No Storm Lasts Forever written by Terry A. Gordon, Dr. and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a cardiologist, Dr. Terry Gordon dealt with life-and-death circumstances on a daily basis. He learned that life is precious and tenuous; it can change in an instant. Such a dramatic shift occurred when his son, Tyler, was involved in a car accident, sustaining a severe spinal-cord injury that left him paralyzed. Leading his family through the experience, Terry’s journey resulted in a spiritual awakening to a clearer understanding of life and the truths it has to offer. Terry has learned that our experiences become calamities only if we make the conscious decision to make tragedies out of them. Rather than lamenting the so-called adversities, we can choose to be grateful for them, embracing them as gifts from the Divine. These gifts provide fertile soil for growth and enlightenment, offering us the opportunity to transform turmoil, disappointment, and suffering into understanding, insight, and resolve . . . and such gifts are presented to you in No Storm Lasts Forever.
Download or read book No Excuses Watercolor written by Gina Rossi Armfield and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I can't control the paint." "It's not colorful enough." "It's intimidating!" With the fun and easy techniques in Gina Rossi Armfield's No Excuses Watercolor, your excuses for not painting with watercolor don't stand a chance! As you try the demonstrations and exercises, you'll learn the techniques and tricks necessary to achieve amazing, colorful results in your artist's sketchbook. After getting to know your materials, you'll try your hand at thirteen exercises that will help train your hand, and help you identify and refine your artistic style. Along the way, you'll get tips and suggestions for adding journaling and writing to your art. Finally, you'll find an inspirational resource guide packed with reference photos, starter sketches, color palettes, journaling prompts and more to help you fill your watercolor journal! Grab your sketchbook and watercolors--it's time to paint, no excuses! • 22 demonstrations for sketching and watercolor painting. • 13 exercises for practicing backgrounds, focal images, color mixing, layering and details. • 13 resource sections loaded with journaling and painting prompts to keep you inspired.
Download or read book The Book of Positive Quotations written by Steve Deger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 10,000 entries on 62 subjects, The Book of Positive Quotations is an invaluable tool for writers, public speakers, coaches, business leaders—anyone who needs to communicate a positive message to an audience. It is conveniently organized by subject and thoroughly indexed for ease of use. Includes a new Preface by contributor Leslie Ann Gibson. “Every now and then, each of us can use some words of inspiration, messages that motivate. John Cook happily provides them in this book.”—Gannett News Service
Download or read book Thoughts Untethered written by Neeti Sandhu and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry from a doctor? Sounds unlikely? Then do take a look. This is a poet’s dialogue with life The eternal tussle of joy and strife The sojourn of mind across countless miles Of human affliction, tears and smiles Dreams, desires, aspirations and hopes Bound by Love’s invisible silken ropes Thoughts untethered cantering along Time’s sands This is not a book but my soul in your hands. Neeti works as a qualified Psychiatrist in the UK. Her poems are born from her own experiences of life and from intimate association with human suffering. She has been writing since her teenage years and has won several awards and accolades for her work. This book is a reflective and intimate journey through both the agony and ecstasy of life and would be a wonderful gift for lovers of nature and soft poetry.
Download or read book Stepping Stones written by Anonymous and published by Hazelden Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spiritual successor to the best-selling Touchstones, the author continues to explore masculinity and sobriety. Now well beyond recovery’s trailhead, we confront life itself: it isn’t merely abstinence and coping skills, it’s a triumph. Stepping Stones guides your self-help discovery along its next steps, ensuring your recovery finds inspiration, meaning, and brilliance. For many of us, sobriety began uncomfortably. Treatment and counseling unearthed addiction’s thumbprint—substance use, anger, resentments, and behavioral patterns around sex and intimacy—as well as challenged perspectives about religion and spirituality. As addictive behaviors and mind-sets gave way to both mental health and physical wellness, our new sense of self emerged, and our family and friends supported our continuing transformation. This self-help meditation book is designed for men to keep moving forward in recovery. Recovery is well-earned, but life never slows—nor should it. Stepping Stones advances a person’s recovery so that it emerges as a comfortable journey that stays in stride with a person’s overall life and experiences. It offers insight into the many masculine roles men undertake—father and son, friend and lover—and provides actionable meditations for leading a full life. Life isn’t about recovery; recovery is about life.
Download or read book All the Bright Places written by Jennifer Niven and published by Ember. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A NETFLIX FILM, STARRING ELLE FANNING AND JUSTICE SMITH! The New York Times bestselling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge. And don’t miss Take Me with You When You Go, Jennifer Niven’s highly anticipated new book with bestselling author David Levithan! Theodore Finch is fascinated by death. Every day he thinks of ways he might kill himself, but every day he also searches for—and manages to find—something to keep him here, and alive, and awake. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her small Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school—six stories above the ground— it’s unclear who saves whom. Soon it’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink. . . . “A do-not-miss for fans of Eleanor & Park and The Fault in Our Stars, and basically anyone who can breathe.” —Justine Magazine “At the heart—a big one—of All the Bright Places lies a charming love story about this unlikely and endearing pair of broken teenagers.” —The New York Times Book Review “A heart-rending, stylish love story.” —The Wall Street Journal “A complex love story that will bring all the feels.” —Seventeen Magazine “Impressively layered, lived-in, and real.” —Buzzfeed
Download or read book Light Bulb Moments written by Talayah Stovall and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Have you ever had one of those experiences when the light bulb just went off? You thought to yourself, ‘Now, I get it! That was the lesson I was supposed to learn in all of this!’" Light Bulb Moments is a collection of 75 lessons learned through everyday life. In each chapter, author, life purpose coach, and speaker Talayah Stovall shares personal stories and anecdotes to help guide us through life’s ups and downs. Discovering your purpose and passion; developing persistence, hope, patience, faith, and forgiveness; setting clear and actionable goals for the future; and understanding the value of friendship and love are among the many treasures found in this wise little book. Key messages include: • Your passion can become your livelihood • Successful people often fail their way to success • Whatever you don’t control, controls you • Distinguish between your goals and your wishes or dreams Lighthearted, warm, and compassionate, Light Bulb Moments will inspire you to pursue your greatness and create a vision for your life as you want it to be. "Everyone wants more love, light, joy, and energy in their lives. Occasionally, all we need is to drink deeply of someone else’s story to reignite ours. Here is just such a book." —Mark Victor Hansen, author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series
Download or read book This is how You Lose Her written by Junot Díaz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
Download or read book Legend s End written by Imogen Olson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world ravaged by nuclear waste, the wolves are rising. Nearly a thousand years ago, wolf culture began to evolve from the ashes of human society. The canines advanced rapidly over the centuries as they mastered the uses of language, writing, fire, craftsmanship, and metals. They began to branch out, make new discoveries and recording their history. Now in a medieval age of development, wolf-kind is being threatened by a vicious she-wolf and her acquiescent mate, who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals. Only a conflicted young wolf named Rakuro, who holds the power to make or break the future of all wolf-kind, can stop them. As the struggle for the ultimate goal--a secret from the beginning of wolf history--escalates, Rakuro is faced with a choice that will not only define who he is, but will change the future of his species. If infinite knowledge lay within your grasp... What would you do?
Download or read book An Amish Winter written by Vannetta Chapman and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY Bestselling Author Vannetta Chapman Can love warm their hearts? Snowstorms and babies bring couples together in these two sweet Amish novellas. In Vannetta Chapman’s Stranded in the Snow, widowed single mother Faith Yoder and her baby find temporary refuge from a snowstorm with Elijah King’s generous help. And in Caring for the Amish Baby by Carrie Lighte, after her trip south for the winter is delayed, Amish spinster Leah Zehr must work with Jonathan Rocke to care for her sick friend’s baby. From Harlequin Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.
Download or read book Haunted by Words Left Unspoken written by Anna Marie Buonomo and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is rare for someone to journey through life without carrying the burden of regret: regret for what was, wasn’t, or might have been. Perhaps your regret lies in the echoes of unvoiced words. Did you withhold the depths of your love, leaving it buried within? Were you powerless to set the boundaries that could have protected your heart? Did your voice falter when you needed to speak up? In the quiet corners of our hearts, the heavy weight of regret finds its dwelling, reminding us of the striking power of unspoken words and unexpressed truths. Regardless of the regret (or regrets) you may harbour, have you tried to process that feeling? Have you managed to come to terms with it, or does it continue to weigh you down? Are you stuck in the past, unable to truly live in the present, because of your regret? In Haunted by Words Left Unspoken: How Speaking Your Truth Can Set Your Past Free, Anna Marie Buonomo addresses the topic of regret through a series of letters that are supported by poetry, thoughtful prose, and quotations from great thinkers. Divided into three sections—the past, the present, and the future—this book demonstrates how our relationship with ourselves can evolve and grow with time. Using her own life experiences as examples, Anna challenges her readers to face their regrets and move toward letting go and healing. After all, if we can face our own truths and release regret, we will create space for happiness in the present that will, in turn, manifest the future we envision.
Download or read book Wintering written by Katherine May and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! AS HEARD ON NPR MORNING EDITION AND ON BEING WITH KRISTA TIPPETT “Katherine May opens up exactly what I and so many need to hear but haven't known how to name.” —Krista Tippett, On Being “Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book.” —Elizabeth Gilbert "Proves that there is grace in letting go, stepping back and giving yourself time to repair in the dark...May is a clear-eyed observer and her language is steady, honest and accurate—capturing the sense, the beauty and the latent power of our resting landscapes." —Wall Street Journal An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time, but embraced the singular opportunities it offered. A moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature, mythology, and the natural world, May's story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat. Illumination emerges from many sources: solstice celebrations and dormice hibernation, C.S. Lewis and Sylvia Plath, swimming in icy waters and sailing arctic seas. Ultimately Wintering invites us to change how we relate to our own fallow times. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat, joy in the hushed beauty of winter, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical, not linear. A secular mystic, May forms a guiding philosophy for transforming the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season.
Download or read book Icy Winters on the Chesapeake Bay A History written by James L. Foster and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailing on the Chesapeake Bay's myriad inlets in summer, it is hard to imagine that come January icebreakers might be plowing the waters you cruised in July. When portions of the Great Shellfish Bay are iced up the flow of commerce is impeded. At the turn of the 19th century, with the center of the new nation's government established in its arms, a frozen Bay meant that the United States' emergence to a status on par with the foremost nations of the world might be painfully slow. Throughout the 20th century years of extreme cold continued to halt navigation and fishing. James Foster chronicles the disasters, large and small, which come with the coldest of winters.
Download or read book This Is Our Town written by Alexandra Osborn Spotti and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With World War II raging throughout Europe, the United States knew it needed to produce magnesium—the “miracle metal”—in prodigious quantities. Thousands of souls from across the United States heeded the call and traveled to Southern Nevada to build the world’s largest magnesium production plant. Living conditions were harsh in the parched desert encampment that some called Tent City. But the iron-willed men and women who answered the call would break all records in magnesium production. When the war ended, however, a mass exodus from the settlement left it on the brink of becoming just another ghost town. In this book, the author offers readers a front-row seat to the development of Henderson, Nevada. In plain, straightforward language, she examines the forces that propelled the small community through the war and how it continued to thrive into the twenty-first century. Whether you’re interested in World War II, the history of Nevada, or the history of Henderson in particular, this book reveals the powerful impact of a small desert town.
Download or read book The Journey to the Beautiful Life written by Sandy Dennis and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you living the life of your dreams? Is your life a celebration, splashing over with peace, joy, and victory? To make this a reality, join me on The Journey to the Beautiful Life. Gracing the pages of this book are 70 unforgettable paintings, inviting you to escape and slip away into a world that is beautiful, peaceful, and yet enchanting. This life enriching book contains over 200 powerful writings and heartwarming stories, selective scriptures, and more than 450 thought provoking quotations empowering you to live the abundant, Beautiful Life God designed for you. So come with me on an exciting journey - a journey that will change your life forever
