Download or read book Painful Tears of Joy written by Debra Lynn Viteri and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painful Tears of Joy is written by Debra Viteri, who has been inspired by the Holy Spirit to give detailed accounts of her personal life and the many trials she has experienced. As you read these pages, it will bring you into a deep knowledge and understanding of her spiritual journey of being a care giver to her husband who suffered from a terminal illness, and how she engaged in spiritual warfare which has always been a large portion of her lessons through lifes unexpected trials. Although there have been many tears, she wants to express how the Lord can turn those painful tears to Tears of Joy. Throughout her book, she will use the greatest Book, the Bible, and a devotional Day by Day that has truly inspired her to walk a victorious life. Debra knows how to choose life, especially when she was used by God to give life to her husband through living liver donation. Are you having difficulty focusing on your challenge ahead of you? Debras desire is for you to learn to walk by faith and not by sight; and for you to know you are a winner despite any negative circumstances. She goes into great detail how she stood by faith when all odds were against her and her family. You will learn about Gods divine plan, for you to live healthy; body, mind and spirit, by using modern medicine, good nutrition and the power of scripture and prayer.
Download or read book Tears of Pain Tears of Joy One Mother s Story written by Paula Baysinger Morhardt and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you start married life at 17, problems are everywhere you look. First baby, second baby, husband out late, children getting sick. Problems, problems, and more problems. But there are bright moments, too-the first daughter-in-law, the first grandbaby. Tears of pain and tears of joy were shed during the first 25 years of this marriage. Learn what being a mother meant to this woman, and how she handled it.
Download or read book Tears of Joy written by Barbara Behm and published by Wayword Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Carly, a usually happy little girl, suddenly becomes quiet and withdrawn, her school counselor tries to help. Includes information on childhood sexual abuse, how to stop it, and what to do if it occurs.
Download or read book Tears to Joy written by Natalie Flake and published by Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You are a sorry excuse for a wife. I don't know why I put up with you!' Natalie's heart broke. What was happening to the kind, caring man she had married? After four years of marriage, Natalie's husband, Michael, had transformed into a different person overnight. Plagued with depression, he struggled to regain his normally cheerful and outgoing personality. After the depression came terrifying fits of rage and frenzied behavior that Michael couldn't control and Natalie was helpless to understand. Natalie and Michael did their best to hide the crippling effects Michael's bizarre behavior had on them, but their marriage was flying apart. Eventually, Michael was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Throughout the years that followed the birth of their daughter, Michael fought an internal battle for normalcy, both taking and refusing medication as his mood swings dictated. Eventually, Michael's illness drove him to the point of desperation, devastating his friends and family when they learned of his suicide. In Tears to Joy, Natalie Flake details the tribulations of dealing with mental illness in a loved one. Debunking stigma and presenting practical advice, she offers hope to readers whose loved ones have dealt with mental illness or suicide, and even to those who have struggled with it themselves.
Download or read book Tears to Joy written by Darnella Tyler and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a broken life become whole again? While reading Darnella's story, you are taken through her experience with rape at a young age, as well as her journey through spousal abuse, adding fear and anxiety to her life. It's a story of "one life" that, unfortunately also mirrors the painful lives of many women whose stories have never been told. Yet as her story unfolds, surprising events follow that stir you to wonder if there is something even bigger going on. As if someone is directing and somehow reordering the surprising outcome. Even while sensing Darnella's pain and tears, you'll begin to find yourself in awe of the chain of events that cause the amazing transformation of her life from "Tears to Joy!" Not only is this a story of God's power to transform a life, it's also a wonderful testimony of His Supernatural Intervention in bringing two individual lives together as husband and wife to serve God and fulfill His purpose!
Download or read book Love Unleashes Life written by Stephanie Gray and published by . This book was released on 2016-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defiant Joy written by Stasi Eldredge and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all spend a lot of energy reaching for happiness, but we're never quite able to hang on to it. Real life happens, and our circumstances take us on an emotional rollercoaster. Oftentimes, the Bible's call to "be joyful always" seems out of reach--but it doesn't have to be. We are called to live. And, miraculously, to live with joy. Join bestselling author Stasi Eldredge as she shows us how to choose a joy that stands against the tides of life's real and often overwhelming pain. Defiant Joy reminds us that a joy that is defiant in the face of this broken world was meant to be ours. This joy isn't simply happiness on steroids, it's the unyielding belief that sorrow and loss do not have the final say. It's the stubborn determination to be present in whatever may come and interpret both goodness and grief by the light of heaven. Defiant Joy will give you the encouragement you need to: Finally experience daily joy Learn how to have a posture of holy defiance when circumstances threaten to weigh down your soul Find new perspectives on the painful circumstances you've faced In Defiant Joy, Stasi invites us with courage, candor, and tender vulnerability to a place beyond sadness or happiness, leading the way as we learn how to maintain a posture of holy defiance that neither denies nor diminishes our pain but dares to live with expectant, unwavering hope.
Download or read book The Book of Joy written by Dalai Lama and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller Two spiritual giants. Five days. One timeless question. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships—or, as they would say, because of them—they are two of the most joyful people on the planet. In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness's eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: How do we find joy in the face of life's inevitable suffering? They traded intimate stories, teased each other continually, and shared their spiritual practices. By the end of a week filled with laughter and punctuated with tears, these two global heroes had stared into the abyss and despair of our time and revealed how to live a life brimming with joy. This book offers us a rare opportunity to experience their astonishing and unprecendented week together, from the first embrace to the final good-bye. We get to listen as they explore the Nature of True Joy and confront each of the Obstacles of Joy—from fear, stress, and anger to grief, illness, and death. They then offer us the Eight Pillars of Joy, which provide the foundation for lasting happiness. Throughout, they include stories, wisdom, and science. Finally, they share their daily Joy Practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives. The Archbishop has never claimed sainthood, and the Dalai Lama considers himself a simple monk. In this unique collaboration, they offer us the reflection of real lives filled with pain and turmoil in the midst of which they have been able to discover a level of peace, of courage, and of joy to which we can all aspire in our own lives.
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 Tears of Joy written by Joseph Tristan and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tears of Joy: An Untold Story of Two Angels By: Joseph Tristan We are born on this earth with an unknown mission. As we mature and develop, our main objective is to identify what our purpose in life is. Once we identify our purpose, we can begin to achieve our life's goal so we may live a life filled with happiness and love. Unbeknown to us, angels live among us. Some angels are here to guide, teach, and comfort us throughout our lives, while others are here to help educate and develop our gift of knowledge and healing that will allow us to make life better for others. Tears of Joy is a story of two angels, one who helps another angel in a time of need, while the second angel educates medical science by making the ultimate sacrifice so others may get a second chance in life.
Download or read book Joy and Hope in the Midst of Painful Trials written by Michael Fullmer and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is a journey through great blessings and at times, painful trials. We may be facing the loss of a loved one, a life-threatening disease, or a serious financial crisis. The trials may be building. They can catch us by surprise. When the trials do come, they can quickly overwhelm us while raising countless questions. Why do we suffer? How do we deal with the anxious moments? What is God's purpose in all this pain? How do I emerge from this? Is it possible to have joy and hope, even in the middle of these long and difficult trials? In Joy and Hope, author Michael Fullmer shares his personal journey of discovery during a long series of personal trials. He includes a look at the many lessons learned as he sought answers through God's word, prayer, and reflection. As God walked with him, he continued to discover strength when he thought he had none, blessings while still in the moments of pain, refinement as his heart grew closer to the Lord, and hope and joy, even while shedding tears.
Download or read book The Topography of Tears written by and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When you first view Rose-Lynn Fisher’s photographs, you might think you’re looking down at the world from an airplane, at dunes, skyscrapers or shorelines. In fact, you’re looking at her tears. . . . [There’s] poetry in the idea that our emotional terrain bears visual resemblance to the physical world; that our tears can look like the vistas we see out an airplane window. Fisher’s images are the only remaining trace of these places, which exist during a moment of intense feeling—and then vanish.” —NPR “[A] delicate, intimate book. . . . In The Topography of Tears photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher shows us a place where language strains to express grief, longing, pride, frustration, joy, the confrontation with something beautiful, the confrontation with an onion.” —Boston Globe Does a tear shed while chopping onions look different from a tear of happiness? In this powerful collection of images, an award-winning photographer trains her optical microscope and camera on her own tears and those of men, women, and children, released in moments of grief, pain, gratitude, and joy, and captured upon glass slides. These duotone photographs reveal the beauty of recurring patterns in nature and present evocative, crystalline imagery for contemplation. Underscored by poetic captions, they translate the mysterious act of crying into an atlas mapping the structure and magnificence of our interior lives. Rose-Lynn Fisher is an artist and author of the International Photography Award-winning studies Bee and The Topography of Tears. Her photographs are exhibited in galleries, festivals, and museums across the world and have been featured by the Dr. Oz Show, NPR, Smithsonian, Harper’s, New Yorker, Time, Wired, Reader’s Digest, Discover, Brain Pickings, and elsewhere. She received her BFA from Otis Art Institute and lives in Los Angeles.
Download or read book Polishing Gems written by Joel Emerson and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is like a jewelry box holding treasures of immeasurable value. For instance, John 3:16 can be compared to the hope diamond. It surpasses all others. Genealogy listings of who begat whom could be compared to mere gravel. Though maybe not life-changing, it serves its purpose. We cannot improve on GodaEUR(tm)s Word (it is what it is), but God has called us to be laborers together with Him (1 Corinthians 3:9). Just like a priceless diamond simply looks like a rock until it is shaped and put in the proper light, His Word is almost always hidden until the Holy Spirit reveals its worth, and sometimes another person can share its impact on their lives or even a looked over by most observation that puts it in a different light. Example, the shortest verse is John 11:35: aEURoeJesus wept.aEUR My take is that He had to bring Lazarus back. IaEUR(tm)ve seen many people surprised by this. A sermon is for the purpose of putting a shine on scripture, bringing out the beauty, revealing the intent of the message, making it understandable. This collection of poetry is basically quick-read minisermons given to the author by the Holy Spirit. Tertius was a scribe who wrote the Book of Romans while Paul dictated. The authoraEUR(tm)s education in poetry has only come from bathroom walls and Dr. Seuss. He credits God with its entire content. The style is down-to-earth, but its message is out of this world. It is his hope that believers will gain a closer relationship with God and unbelievers will begin a journey that leaves behind all the hopelessness, misery, darkness, and suffering of the soul that accompanies life apart from God (that he has experienced firsthand) and begin a joyous walk with Jesus toward the Promised Land. He hopes it entertains you and prays that it changes you for the better.
Download or read book Public Opinion written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Autobiograf a written by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven years before Uncle Tom's Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter. So controversial was Sab's theme of miscegenation and its parallel between the powerlessness and enslavement of blacks and the economic and matrimonial subservience of women that the book was not published in Cuba until 1914, seventy-three years after its original 1841 publication in Spain. Also included in the volume is Avellaneda's Autobiography (1839), whose portrait of an intelligent, flamboyant woman struggling against the restrictions of her era amplifies the novel's exploration of the patriarchal oppression of minorities and women.
Download or read book Morning Mantras for 365 Days written by Dr. Satheesh Kumar Menon and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily musings on the power of love, compassion, service, empathy, self-confidence, trust, gratitude, courage and creativity. Positivity Capsules for living during the pandemic
Download or read book A GRIEF OBSERVED Based on a Personal Journal written by C. S. Lewis and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grief Observed is a collection of Lewis's reflections on the experience of bereavement following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960. The book was first published under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk as Lewis wished to avoid identification as the author. Though republished in 1963 after his death under his own name, the text still refers to his wife as "H" (her first name, which she rarely used, was Helen). The book is compiled from the four notebooks which Lewis used to vent and explore his grief. He illustrates the everyday trials of his life without Joy and explores fundamental questions of faith and theodicy. Lewis's step-son (Joy's son) Douglas Gresham points out in his 1994 introduction that the indefinite article 'a' in the title makes it clear that Lewis's grief is not the quintessential grief experience at the loss of a loved one, but one individual's perspective among countless others. The book helped inspire a 1985 television movie Shadowlands, as well as a 1993 film of the same name. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
