Download or read book Zen and the Art of Running written by Larry Shapiro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on Zen philosophies to counsel runners on how to achieve better results by aligning the body and mind for success, providing case testimonials while providing coverage of topics ranging from staying committed and training mindfully to visualizing goals and accepting limitations. Original.

Download or read book RUNNING YOUR RACE written by Donald E. Hawkins and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running Your Race is designed to help Christians learn about God and how to know God better, how God expects them to act, and how they are supposed to live. The book explains that God loves us, His children, and wants to bless us. It tells us how to trust God and follow His leading. God requires that His children live by faith and the Bible is the means for us to acquire the faith that we need to live for God. It tells about God's forgiveness of our sins when we fail to obey God's word. How God does not even remember our sins that Jesus Christ came to save us and not to condemn us. God's word is absolutely true and we can trust it with our lives. He has given us His Holy Spirit to live in us and to teach us and guide us into all the truth. We discover how to find out the will of God and how to pray in accordance with His will. All believers in Christ are members of the body of Christ and God has given each one a place in the body. It is our responsibility to seek God and ask Him what He wants us to do with our lives. God calls us His sons. As sons of God, we have the responsibility of reconciling the world to God. We are ambassadors for Christ and we need to take this responsibility seriously. The Holy Spirit has given the author many poems about various scriptural subjects, some of which are included at the end of each topic.

Download or read book Things That Make for Peace written by Peter B. Price and published by Augsburg Books. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the experiences and lessons of over forty years working on the frontline of reconciliation and peace building, in Northern Ireland, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, Peter B. Price explores what it means to respond to the biblical call to "seek peace ... and pursue it" (Psalm 34:14). What is required of Christians today in the light of the increasing number of wars, insurgencies, holocausts, and genocide, is a deeper understanding of what true peacemaking costs and an answer to the question: "Can Christianity continue to sanction war?"

Download or read book In the Distance written by Dave Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Runners feel a connection to one another, a bond formed with mutual respect. And yet, running is deeply personal, reminding us of our earliest days, when we could find simple joy in fresh air, and excitement in the rhythm of our movement. But running isn't just child's play. It can be a weapon against our deepest fears, giving us a means to fight our apprehension and doubt. We battle negative voices, and we overcome them.In the process, we learn a lot about ourselves, realizing we're capable of more than we thought we were.In the Distance is a book about running, but it's also a book about living. If you run, you'll find yourself in the stories. You'll associate with the fear and the struggle, and you'll acknowledge the important lessons that are learned while running and racing. But this book isn't just for runners. Every reader will become immersed in the heartwarming stories. You'll feel a connection to the child, the competitor, the fighter, the learner, the seeker, the father, and the philosopher, all of whom appear within the same person, traversing through life one mile at a time.

Download or read book Pastoral Imagination written by Eileen R. Campbell-Reed and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life informs and inspires the practice of ministry through "on the ground" learning experienced in a variety of ministry settings. Each of the fifty chapters explores a single concept through story, reflection, and provocative open-ended questions designed to spark conversation between ministers and mentors, among ministry peers, or for personal journal reflections. The book is closely integrated with the author's Three Minute Ministry Mentor web resource.

Download or read book Running Over Rocks written by Ian Adams and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running Over Rocks is an invitation into a journey of discovery. Through reflections, images and strikingly beautiful poems, Ian Adams - author of the bestselling Cave Refectory Road - explores fifty-two spiritual practices to enable us to live with joy, grace and purpose through good and tough times alike and so to bring good to the world around us. These practices draw on an ancient wisdom but are rooted in the everyday material of our lives, revealing that any transformation of the world for good must always begin with ourselves.

Download or read book Running with the Mind of Meditation written by Sakyong Mipham and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique fitness program from a highly respected spiritual leader that blends physical and spiritual practice for everyone - regardless of age, spiritual background, or ability - to great benefits for both body and soul. As a Tibetan lama and leader of Shambhala (an international community of 165 meditation centers), Sakyong Mipham has found physical activity to be essential for spiritual well-being. He's been trained in horsemanship and martial arts but has a special love for running. Here he incorporates his spiritual practice with running, presenting basic meditation instruction and fundamental principles he has developed. Even though both activities can be complicated, the lessons here are simple and designed to show how the melding of internal practice with physical movement can be used by anyone - regardless of age, spiritual background, or ability - to benefit body and soul.

Download or read book Waging Peace written by Diana Oestreich and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana Oestreich, a combat medic in the Army National Guard, enlisted like both her parents before her. But when she was commanded to run over an Iraqi child to keep her convoy rolling and keep her battle buddies safe, she was confronted with a choice she never thought she'd have to make. Torn between God's call to love her enemy and her country's command to be willing to kill, Diana chose to wage peace in a place of war. For the remainder of her tour of duty, Diana sought to be a peacemaker--leading to an unlikely and beautiful friendship with an Iraqi family. A beautiful and gut-wrenching memoir, Waging Peace exposes the false divide between loving our country and living out our faith's call to love our enemies--whether we perceive our enemy as the neighbor with an opposing political viewpoint, the clerk wearing a head-covering, or the refugee from a war-torn country. By showing that us-versus-them is a false choice, this book will inspire each of us to choose love over fear.

Download or read book Running Into Whole written by Alia Freeman and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you running fast through life? Have you been avoiding people, situations, or circumstances that require you to be patient or communicate hard things? We all reach this point of life at times, but it’s a choice whether to deal with it or to run from it. This book is filled with poems, prayers, and short stories of daily life challenges and obstacles that can help you develop a relationship with Christ, gain a deeper understanding of him, or become more intimate with Christ. We have a choice between dealing with the weight of the world on our own or doing it like Christ does. Running into Whole will help you become whole while growing through the hardships.

Download or read book In the Running written by Phil Hewitt and published by Summersdale. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the strength and stamina of well-known runners who achieve the almost impossible to the extraordinary runners who have changed lives and history, this collection of unforgettable stories will inspire anyone who’s ever pounded the pavement to keep on running and enjoy every minute of this liberating sport.

Download or read book Here Now written by Kate Merrick and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if our truest life is the one right in front of us? Does life sometimes seem to be passing you by? Are you so busy—with email to check, Instagram to scroll through, and friends to be envious of—that you’ve become disconnected from your actual life? You know, the one you are living right here, right now? With hilariously relatable confessions and profoundly beautiful insights, Kate Merrick invites us to stop running away from the lives we’re living today and instead walk in the peace and fullness God offers moment to moment. She shows us how to kill your Wi-Fi, put down the tech, and find deeper contentment, redirect the FOMO so you don’t miss out on your own life, and go on a diet of fewer choices to discover the blessings of the quiet, the slow, and the intentional. Only when we look honestly at our hearts and have the courage to live truly present do we receive the gifts of God found in all of life’s seasons—the painful ones, the big and beautiful ones, and even the ordinary ones.

Download or read book Fortress Israel written by Patrick Tyler and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once in the military system, Israelis never fully exit," writes the prizewinning journalist Patrick Tyler in the prologue to Fortress Israel. "They carry the military identity for life, not just through service in the reserves until age forty-nine . . . but through lifelong expectations of loyalty and secrecy." The military is the country to a great extent, and peace will only come, Tyler argues, when Israel's military elite adopt it as the national strategy. Fortress Israel is an epic portrayal of Israel's martial culture—of Sparta presenting itself as Athens. From Israel's founding in 1948, we see a leadership class engaged in an intense ideological struggle over whether to become the "light unto nations," as envisioned by the early Zionists, or to embrace an ideology of state militarism with the objective of expanding borders and exploiting the weaknesses of the Arabs. In his first decade as prime minister, David Ben-Gurion conceived of a militarized society, dominated by a powerful defense establishment and capable of defeating the Arabs in serial warfare over many decades. Bound by self-reliance and a stern resolve never to forget the Holocaust, Israel's military elite has prevailed in war but has also at times overpowered Israel's democracy. Tyler takes us inside the military culture of Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu, introducing us to generals who make decisions that trump those of elected leaders and who disdain diplomacy as appeasement or surrender. Fortress Israel shows us how this martial culture envelops every family. Israeli youth go through three years of compulsory military service after high school, and acceptance into elite commando units or air force squadrons brings lasting prestige and a network for life. So ingrained is the martial outlook and identity, Tyler argues, that Israelis are missing opportunities to make peace even when it is possible to do so. "The Zionist movement had survived the onslaught of world wars, the Holocaust, and clashes of ideology," writes Tyler, "but in the modern era of statehood, Israel seemed incapable of fielding a generation of leaders who could adapt to the times, who were dedicated to ending . . . [Israel's] isolation, or to changing the paradigm of military preeminence." Based on a vast array of sources, declassified documents, personal archives, and interviews across the spectrum of Israel's ruling class, FortressIsrael is a remarkable story of character, rivalry, conflict, and the competing impulses for war and for peace in the Middle East.

Download or read book Little Runs Big World written by Chris Bolender and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crashing through the Atlantic Ocean on board a goliath aircraft carrier, looking out at Virginia Beach from the top of a mountain made of trash, and peering inside a sea cave on a hidden turquoise beach in Okinawa are some of the last places most people would think about running. In an entrancing memoir, we join Chris Bolender on his little runs as a child tortured by running, a navy sailor, a college football player, a marine officer candidate, a nervous lieutenant, a hospitalized captain, a comedian, an absent father, a lonely commander, the son and grandson of war heroes, a supervisor of drill instructors, a retired marine, and a present father. This modern-day Renaissance man gives his readers the access given only to a service member behind the perimeters. Readers will see the gorgeous places Bolender has traveled around the globe, while feeling the heavy stresses placed on him. All his little runs tie together to form a narrative that begins as an insecure teenage kid joins the navy and finishes with an enlightened marine officer-with a few wrinkles and gray hairs. Over the course of sixteen years, each run is an escape and a reconnection with nature that keeps him sane and strong enough to overcome the challenges at hand. Over time his bond with running grows stronger and stronger-enough that he adopts it into his daily routine-for life. Little Runs, Big World: A Marine's Path to Peace is sure to be an enjoyable, witty read for people who are interested in fitness, running, the military, travel, and spirituality.

Download or read book Doing Time for Peace written by Rosalie G. Riegle and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling collection of oral histories, more than seventy-five peacemakers describe how they say no to war-making in the strongest way possible--by engaging in civil disobedience and paying the consequences in jail or prison. These courageous resisters leave family and community and life on the outside in their efforts to direct U.S. policy away from its militarism. Many are Catholic Workers, devoting their lives to the works of mercy instead of the works of war. They are homemakers and carpenters and social workers and teachers who are often called "faith-based activists." They speak from the left of the political perspective, providing a counterpoint to the faith-based activism of the fundamentalist Right. In their own words, the narrators describe their motivations and their preparations for acts of resistance, the actions themselves, and their trials and subsequent jail time. We hear from those who do their time by caring for their families and managing communities while their partners are imprisoned. Spouses and children talk frankly of the strains on family ties that a life of working for peace in the world can cause. The voices range from a World War II conscientious objector to those protesting the recent war in Iraq. The book includes sections on resister families, the Berrigans and Jonah House, the Plowshares Communities, the Syracuse Peace Council, and Catholic Worker houses and communities. The introduction by Dan McKanan situates these activists in the long tradition of resistance to war and witness to peace.

Download or read book The Missing Peace written by Jared Nieman and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Missing Peace uncovers one man's real-life tribulations and tells an inspiring story of hope, perseverance, strength, character, and of course, peace. Jared Nieman, a well-regarded pastor and motivational speaker, opens up about how his life wasn't always perfect. He battled mental health issues such as feelings of hopelessness, loss and at one point, addiction. When he made the decision to find what was missing in his life, he was able to repair his way of thinking, be intentional about the daily choices he was making and genuinely grow in his relationship with God. This book is meant to serve as a resource to everyone who desires to find themselves again to truly live the life they've prayed for, for so long.

Download or read book The China Race written by Fei-Ling Wang and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following its two prequels, The China Order (2017) and The China Record (2023), this book analyzes the China Race, the global competition for power and leadership between the US-led West and the People's Republic of China. Considering the organizational options and optimality with respect to human civilization, Fei-Ling Wang discusses two alternative world orders: the Westphalian System of international relations and a centralized world political unification. Both are feasible and existed before, but with drastically different desirability. The rising power of the PRC state has consistently and methodically sought to recenter and reorganize the world to safeguard and promote its autocracy and, ultimately, build a world empire. Examining the nature, aims, means, accomplishments, pitfalls and failures of Beijing's foreign policy and the state of and developments in Sinology and the West's China policy, Wang focuses on the existential PRC-USA rivalry and proposes a holistic strategic framework, discussing three ranked objectives, for the West and the world, including the Chinese people, to manage, benefit from, and prevail in the China Race.

Download or read book Running for Recovery written by Arthur W. Coffey and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a physical marathon, the "wall" shows up about mile twenty or twenty-one; when this happens, mind and body shake hands to say "we quit." That's where most runners will shut down, unless they reach down into their identity as spirit. To the question "Who am I; what is my identity?" God's answer is "I am spirit; I have a mind; and I live in a body." So, to break through the "wall" requires a hierarchy of spirit over mind over body. God's Word will address our spirit when mind and body are out of it, thereby setting Word over spirit over mind over body to keep the feet moving. Project this to other marathons: mental, spiritual, emotional, interpersonal, occupational, financial, etc. Bottom line: Can the reader finish the book, put it down, and say: "Wow, look what God's Word performed; I want to be in the Word; I want the Word to be in me"? The closer the reader comes to God's Word, the closer they come to Him (John 1:14). The Word will have become "sent out (Isaiah 55:10-11), active and alive (Hebrews 4:12), watched over and performed" (Jeremiah 1:12) in their lives!