Download or read book Out of Solitude Passion written by Joy A. Payne and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may be asking, How do I keep my devotional times fresh? My response is to have your heart captivated by God. The devotional pieces in this book are born out of quiet times with the Lord, spanning an eighteen year period. Some are based on ruminating over portions of Scripture. Others are sparked by thinking about Gods Person, and His attributes. As I wait, speaking to God and enjoying His Presence, there is a divine exchange. God captivates my heart and reveals Himself in such a way, that love for Him and sheer passion erupt and flow from my heart! This passion keeps my times with God fiery and has helped to transform my life through the years. Walking with God has been refreshing, dynamic, full of joy and passion. My prayer is that each devotional piece in this book will help to remove veils or hindrances, causing you to see God in a fresh way. As you sit with your Bible and this book, I want you to be drawn into a glorious encounter with the One Who loves you extravagantly. He will captivate your heart, filling it with unbridled love and passion! So, out of your quiet times let passion for God flow!
Download or read book Playing with Water written by James Hamilton-Paterson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998-04-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful inner journey in the outer light and color of a remote coast, uncommonly well written.--Peter Matthiessen
Download or read book The Great Fire of London written by Jacques Roubaud and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Part novel and part autobiography, The Great Fire of London originates in the author's determination to come to terms with the sudden death of his young wife Alix, whose absence haunts every page. Paralyzed by grief, and having failed to complete the novel he had wanted to write, Jacques Roubaud begins a book about that very failure. He submerges his love and his sorrow in meditations that range from despair to playfulness, taking slow and painful steps toward surviving his great loss."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Pressing Pause written by Karen Ehman and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids bickering? Schedule jam-packed? Dishes and laundry both piled up high? Perhaps it's time you pressed pause and took a moment for yourself. Pressing Pause offers you a calm way to start your day, to refresh yourself in Jesus and drink deeply of His presence so that you are ready to pour out love, time, and energy into the people who matter most to you. With these 100 encouraging devotions, moms will: Begin each day with Scripture Draw on God's powers by discovering His Word Learn practical ways to love and serve Pressing Pause is perfect for: Any mother wanting to approach each day with a positive mindset and develop a closer relationship with God Motivational gifts, birthdays, Mother's Day, or Christmas Moms, ages 25-50 Whether you're juggling a career, kids' schedules, and church commitments or you're covered in spit-up and anxious about what the next 18 years might hold, you can carve out a few quiet moments to rejuvenate your spirit.
Download or read book Pursuing God s Will Together written by Ruth Haley Barton and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church boards and other Christian leadership teams have long relied on models adapted from the business world. Ruth Haley Barton, president of the Transforming Center, helps teams transition to a much more fitting model—the spiritual community that practices discernment together.
Download or read book Life Together in Christ written by Ruth Haley Barton and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've all been let down by so-called community. Why is it so hard for us to connect and grow together for the long haul? Veteran spiritual director Ruth Haley Barton helps us get personal and practical about experiencing transformation together. This interactive guide allows us to grow through and by the experience of transforming community.
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Solitude written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
Download or read book The Dictator written by Justin McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lookout written by Trina Moyles and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north. While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers--strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. How could you isolate yourself for that long? she wondered. "I could never do it," she told herself. Craving a deeper sense of purpose, she left northern Alberta to pursue a decade-long career in global humanitarian work. After three years in East Africa, and newly engaged, Trina returned to Peace River with a plan to sponsor her fiance, Akello's, immigration to Canada. Despite her fear of being alone in the woods, she applied for a seasonal lookout position and got the job. Thus begins Trina's first summer as one of a handful of lookouts scattered throughout Alberta, with only a farm dog, Holly--labeled "a domesticated wolf" by her former owners--to keep her company. While searching for smoke, Trina unravels under the pressure of a long-distance relationship--and a dawning awareness of the environmental crisis that climate change is producing in the boreal. Through megafires, lightning storms, and stunning encounters with wildlife, she learns to survive at the fire tower by forging deep connections with nature and with an extraordinary community of people dedicated to wildfire detection and combat. In isolation, she discovers a kind of self-awareness--and freedom--that only solitude can deliver. Lookout is a riveting story of loss, transformation, and belonging to oneself, layered with an eyewitness account of the destructive and regenerative power of wildfire in our northern forests.
Download or read book American Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love Passion and Solitude written by Moneim A. Fadali and published by . This book was released on 1994-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Solitude written by Philip Koch and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Koch's Solitude, both solitude and engagement emerge as primary modes of human experience, equally essential for human completion. This work draws upon the vast corpus of literary reflections on solitude, especially Lao Tze, Sappho, Plotinus, Augustine, Petrarch, Montaigne, Goethe, Shelley, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Proust. "Koch uses the work of philosophers, historians, and writers, as well as texts such as the Bible, to show what solitude is and isn't, and what being alone can do to and for the individual. Interesting for its literary scope and its conclusions about all the good true solitude can bring us." —Booklist "Reading this book is like dipping into many minds, fierce and gentle. The author reveals his long study of great philosophers, and interprets their thoughts through the lens of his own experience with solitude. He traces our early brushes with solitude and the fear it can engender, then the craving for solitude that comes with full, adult lives." —NAPRA Review
Download or read book The Attraction of Things written by Roger Lewinter and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning fragments that offer an epiphany of grace and beauty The Attraction of Things concerns the entirety of beauty and the possibility of grace, relayed via obsessions with rare early gramophone records, the theater, translation, dying parents: all these elements are relayed in a dizzying strange traffic of cultural artifacts, friendships, losses, discoveries, and love. Roger Lewinter believes that in the realm of art, “the distinction between life and death loses its relevance, the one taking place in the other.” Whereas Story of Love in Solitude is a group of small stories, The Attraction of Things is a continuous narrative (more or less) of a man seeking (or stumbling upon) enlightenment. “The Attraction of Things,” states Lewinter, “is the story of a being who lets himself go toward what attracts him, toward what he attracts—beings, works, things—and who, through successive encounters, finds the way out of the labyrinth, to the heart, where the bolt of illumination strikes. This is the story of a letting go toward the illumination.”
Download or read book DEADLY CONSEQUENCES OF LONELINESS PROLONGED SOLITUDE written by S. G TREASURE and published by S. G TREASURE . This book was released on 2024-06-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loneliness, being an inimical social and emotional problem has deadly consequences. It can be defined as a feeling of unwanted isolation (whether physical or psychological) aided by lack of social connection with others. Loneliness is a state of having no intimate friend or companion which leaves one sad. It is a very dangerous emotion which can aid or fuel most lethal psychological and health problems anyone can have. Loneliness remains one of the shortest cuts to depression as it fuels over thinking, high blood pressure, cardiovascular problems as well as other deadly diseases. It kills its victims slowly, making it one of the greatest enemies of man. Fortunately, in the book "DEADLY CONSEQUENCES OF LONELINESS & PROLONGED SOLITUDE", the author peruses deadly health implications of loneliness and ways to overcome the scourge. The book has been published to help victims of loneliness overcome the menace while living better and happier lives. The book also offers working practical solutions to overcoming loneliness with its attendant health implications. Consequently, everyone struggling with the deadly emotion called "loneliness" will find this book a useful self-help guide which brings one out of solitude into social prominence.
Download or read book Alone Time written by Stephanie Rosenbloom and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of traveling solo In our hectic, hyperconnected lives, many people are uncomfortable with the prospect of solitude. Yet a little time to ourselves can be an opportunity to slow down, savor, and try new things, especially when traveling. Through on-the-ground reporting, insights from social science, and recounting the experiences of artists, writers, and innovators who cherished solitude, Stephanie Rosenbloom considers how traveling alone deepens appreciation for everyday beauty, bringing into sharp relief the sights, sounds, and smells that one isn't necessarily attuned to in the presence of company. Walking through four cities--Paris, Florence, Istanbul, and New York--and four seasons, Alone Time gives us permission to pause, to relish the sensual details of the world rather than hurtling through museums and uploading photos to Instagram. In chapters about dining out, visiting museums, and pursuing knowledge, we begin to see how the moments we have to ourselves--on the road or at home--can be used to enrich our lives. Rosenbloom's engaging and elegant prose makes Alone Time as warmly intimate an account as the details of a trip shared by a beloved friend--and will have its many readers eager to set off on their own solo adventures.
Download or read book Zimmerman on Solitude written by Samuel Tzara and published by Vox Humana Books. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ..".The dead can speak. Their long forgotten words can be reborn, dug out of the trashcans of time, revitalized and transformed to continue their mission of enlightening audiences across the barrier of time and place, across generational, cultural and millennial events so diverse yet powerful that to minimize those historical impacts would be nothing more than criminal - just as to let those words long out of print which impacted during their original day, be just as significant a travesty against enlightenment --as ignoring History itself - if they are too not reborn in new writings during our time..." A young veteran of a middle-eastern war flees his country of birth, relocating to Amsterdam. There, living the life of a civil servant by day and a "slam" poet by night, he attempts to discover some order and put some sense into his life while recovering from the violent past he has known. After falling in love with a Dutch woman, he watches as the dissolution of his marriage takes place before his eyes, accepting it, yet doing nothing to remedy or try and restore the relationship before it is too late. At his place of work, our hero stumbles across an insidious secret that complicates his life even further, as he is forced to test his own morality in his efforts to reveal a terrible hidden history to the rest of the world. Strangely, at about the same time the above events are taking place, our main protagonist - a lover of literature and the arts - stumbles across a book in a little shop run by the "Moonies" on a backstreet of the city. The book, entitled "Solitude," authored in the year 1837 by a forgotten Swiss philosopher, named John George Zimmerman, becomes the young man's "gospel," serving as a tool, guiding him in his quest as he tries to integrate his past into his present and ultimately some kind of future working reality. A magical synergy occurs as the young man's life and story begins to mystically become as one with the ruminations on Solitude of JGZ. And as the philosopher's words begin to merge with those of our hero, it becomes difficult for the reader to separate the two "authors" and the lives they have lead so many decades apart from one another.
Download or read book The Call Of Solitude written by Ester Schaler Buchholz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieving inner calm while feeling centered is a human goal that is never easy to master. But why of late do serenity and peace of mind seem further from reach than ever before? The world appears very busy, and finding moments to catch up with ourselves looks to be almost impossible. Something has occurred to change life's circumstances, to make peaceful, restorative time terribly elusive. Alonetime is a great protector of the self and the human spirit. Many in society have railed against it. Some have overused its healing potential. Others have kept it as a special resource both knowingly and unknowingly. ... (Yet) the only way we shall achieve ... ideal love is if we are allowed to flower in the due course and pace of our inner life. Whether or not we were fortunate in our growing up to blossom this way, plenty of time -- alone-times -- awaits us now to make the necessary readjustments.
