Download or read book Stairway to Heaven Grandma Has Gone Home written by Stella Baeza and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stairway to Heaven: Grandma Has Gone Home is a heartwarming, reflective, and reassuring story that chronicles one child’s experience with the loss of a beloved grandparent. In this experience, Molly has lots of questions. Molly’s desire to make sense of her world without her grandma brings to light the reality that life is short and that there will never be a right time to say goodbye to a loved one. Lost in her world and making some sense of why our loved ones leave, she finds that there is a shimmering light of hope. Molly is better able to make sense of this difficult time by piecing together her memories of what it was like when Grandma was around. She begins to understand that her memories are what will carry her throughout the rest of her life as she learns to accept that Grandma will no longer be an integral part of it. Better yet, she learns that Grandma will be a constant and permanent memory that will remain in her heart forever.

Download or read book My Grandma Has Gone to Heaven written by Alex S. Foxhall and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mom s Stairway To Heaven written by the PreacheraEUR(tm)s Son Brian K. Eastman and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our journey takes us into the lives of an immigrant family from Canada who came to the United States looking for a better life, warmer climate for their children. From Canada, to across the border in Detroit, Michigan to Colorado and finally the Pacific Northwest. Step into the life of my Mom, the preacheraEUR(tm)s wife, find out if God treats her same in life as you. Learn how God worked in their lives and how you can get the blessings of the Lord poured out upon your life. My momaEUR(tm)s testimony of her life, she has seen every kind of obstacle in life that you can go through, as a preacheraEUR(tm)s wife, see how she handled it. You need to ask yourself these questions: Does God treat a PreacheraEUR(tm)s wife the same as everyone else? Would you give up everything you have to serve God? What choices do you make in your life? Good, bad, right or wrong? Do you know Him? - Or you donaEUR(tm)t? Does God hear everyoneaEUR(tm)s prayers? - Is Heaven real? Do you pray and talk to Him? - Do you put God first in your life? Do you include Him in your problems you have? Are you going to be ready for that day? Do we accept GodaEUR(tm)s salvation? - Or do we reject Him You need to ask yourself a question if you were to die today would you go to heaven? Mom showed us that we have choices to make in this life, some of them for good and some bad. DonaEUR(tm)t be a procrastinator and put off the choices you can face. Some choices have long-lasting effects on your health physically and mentally. If my mom would have gone to the doctor when she first started to have problems, she may have never got cancer. Instead she lets it go for a few years and then it turned into something real bad, CANCER. When your body talks to you, you should listen, go to the doctor. God uses all the doctors here on earth to help all of us while we are here. So make the right choices in your life. God treats us all the same in life; the difference is the relationship that you have with Christ. God rewarded my mom in a special way when she died. Never before have I seen death come this way in someoneaEUR(tm)s life. Find out whataEUR(tm)s waiting for you when that time comes for you. We never plan on dying, but when you least expect it, it can happen in a moment to anyone. God loves us & cares for us no matter who we are and His gift of salvation is free for all of us. DonaEUR(tm)t miss out on seeing what God can do for you! DonaEUR(tm)t waste your time away. Ask Him!!!

Download or read book In Grandma s Shoes written by Bonnie DiMichele and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandma took a trip back to her childhood home in 1954. She took copious notes and photos on her travels, so she could revisit her adventure time and time again. Years later, I found the journal and felt as if I were traveling alongside her.

Download or read book My Invisible Scars written by Willa-Mae E. Scot and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the best of memoir writing, My Invisible Scars is alternately brutally honest, sad, triumphant, tense, motivating, uncomfortable, and unforgettable. Relying on journals that she has kept since childhood, Canadian author Willa-Mae E. Scot articulately recounts in (mostly) chronological order the highs and lows of her long life, beginning with her early childhood in a small Saskatchewan town. Willa-Mae writes candidly about terrible disappointments, life-threatening ordeals, and her incredible and unwavering determination to put aside countless negative experiences, and live, embrace, and enjoy life to the fullest. This memoir is a must-read book for anyone whose life has been derailed by the unexpected loss of a loved one, violence, family break-up, infidelity, addictions, abandonment, or by poor, sometimes non-existent, choices. Those who have suffered through trauma and struggled to put that trauma behind them will see their journey reflected in these pages and be reassured that, even when down at rock bottom, they can find a way to be happy again. My Invisible Scars is instructive and inspiring, enlightening and engaging, and a great testament to its author’s tremendous courage and forthrightness. Most of all it is a testament to her enviable ability to offer forgiveness to the many people who have hurt her, and then gracefully move forward in life.

Download or read book Wait at the Big Tree written by Frances L. Sirianni and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When they did need to find us, our meeting place outside the school building was 'the Big Tree.' 'Wait at the Big Tree,' they told us. It's where they dropped us off and picked us up. After all these years that tree still stands at the corner of Cresent Street and Newtown Avenue in Astoria Queens. The school is gone, the nuns are gone, our parents and most of the family are now gone. There are no sounds of bells ringing, no kids lining up on the block, but that tree is still there. The only remaining vestige of my school days. It's funny and maybe a bit symbolic given the sanctity of this particular ground; that in a city a tree would out last a building and our very way of life.In the sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking saga of the Sirianni family of New York City, author Fran Sirianni captures the zeitgeist of a generation that was born in the 1950s, questioned things in the 1960s, and came of age in the 1970s. Fran's first person narrative tells the story of her family's arrival in the United States and how they embraced the opportunity of the America Dream to build a life of prosperity. When tragedy strikes, the family comes together to carry on, despite the uncertainty of the times in which they live.Wait at the Big Treeis a story of family, of loss, and of the inevitable change that occurs as we all come into our own.

Download or read book Living with an Angel written by Melinda Rust and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melinda (Simpson) Rust was blessed with a beautiful baby girl, her second child, who she named Leslie. Everything seemed okay until Leslie suddenly coughed and appeared to be choking. Then she stopped breathing and her lips turned blue. Little did Melinda know that she was showing symptoms of cystic fibrosis¿a hereditary disease that affects many vital organs in the body. The doctors said that the disease was debilitating and would limit Leslie¿s capability to do certain things normal children go through. They even say that she will not live past her childhood. Melinda refused to take their words and instead encouraged her daughter to live her life to the fullest and reach for her dreams. Although Leslie died at the young age of thirty-one, she was able to enjoy life and love. She even became a mother to a son. Living with an Angel is a story of love, faith, and hope between a mother and a daughter who both went through mental, physical, and emotional pains brought about by an incurable disease that slowly kills, and whose belief in God enabled them to cope and accept the inevitable fate of parting and dying.

Download or read book Firefly Lane written by Kristin Hannah and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series! In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she'll envy her famous best friend. . . . For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test. Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you---and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget . . . one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.

Download or read book Dance Till the Music Stops written by Joyce Galewick (the huggin' grandma) and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To all my readers and everyone who buys this book, thank you! I know it's hard to write a story of your life when every life is a story-but maybe, because I had the courage and the drive to write my story, maybe you can now write yours. I know how hard it is to face challenges and wonder sometimes if you can ever make it. So, I didn't write this book because I'm rich or famous. I wrote this book to give you courage and hope and to let you know you are never alone in this big old world. If I can help just one person, then my life and this book will be worth it. I wrote this for the child facing months in bed for a disease they don't understand, for the single mother trying to keep it all together, for the wife who has to kiss a dying husband one last time, for the mother who hears her child is dying, for those with cancer facing chemo, for everyone who has ever been discouraged. I want to be your ray of sunshine and show you that you can go on and that life can truly be beautiful-one day and one step at a time. For as long as we wake up, we can listen to the music of life, and we can dance! So, dance till the music stops! Never Give Up and Never Give In You CAN reach the mountain top! No matter how tough LIFE seems, Just follow your dreams and Dance Till The Music Stops! Love, Joyce

Download or read book Life S a Puzzle written by Brenda McClairenen and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separate pieces fit together to reveal the picture God had intended. Lifes a Puzzle is a true story about being given a great life, where with hard work dreams come true. Everything was going according to Brendas plan. Then, with the loss of her first husband, her dreams died. Did love die too? She chose to have new dreams and found love again. This time, she connects with a family that has plenty of ups and downs, with good times and hurtful attacks. Brenda holds on to her past while looking ahead, sometimes getting jarred and shocked by the rough bumps. Brendas journey leads to motherhood, including a trip into the puzzling world of autism, with lessons to learn at every turn. Looking through the contrasts of sadness and happiness, harmony and conflict, wonder and hope were found. Even when things were dark and pieces had flipped upside down, the picture was coming together, becoming beautiful. Brenda discovered incredible realities of life, coming to know without a doubt that love overcomes death and that life is so much more than we can see. She is amazed to find that God has truly been there, in every place, in every moment, for everyone.

Download or read book Sweet Jane written by Joanne Kukanza Easley and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drunken mother makes childhood ugly. Jane runs away at sixteen, determined to leave her fraught upbringing in the rearview. Vowing never to return, she hitchhikes to California, right on time for the Summer of Love. Seventeen years later, she looks good on paper: married, grad school, sober, but her carefully constructed life is crumbling. When Mama dies, Jane returns for the funeral, leaving her husband in the dark about her history. Seeing her childhood home and significant people from her youth catapults Jane back to the events that made her the woman she is. She faces down her past and the ghosts that shaped her family. A stunning discovery helps Jane see her problems through a new lens.

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Download or read book Flying in Circles written by Clayton Taylor and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marlin Todd is a young man with a bright future, a pilots license--and a drinking problem. During a night of hard partying in Hyannis, Massachusetts, in 1983, Marlin wins an old watch from a retired Pan Am pilot. The odd thing is, he cant recall too many details about the actual game of pool he played with the man. And his prize he won changes his life abruptly and profoundly. He begins to experience things he cant understand and strange dreams that seem too real to be just dreams. Soon, the line between reality and imagination becomes perilously blurry for him. Sleep deprivation and crushing anxiety begin to take their toll, and Marlin begins to fear that he is losing his mind. He struggles to understand which reality is the one he can trust. Then one night, a family tragedy is brought to vivid life when Marlin wakes up on Midway Island in 1938. Knowing his beloved grandfather was a pilot onboard the Hawaii Clipper, a Pan Am flying boat that disappeared somewhere between Guam and Manila in 1938, Marlin willingly becomes part of the Clippers ill-fated crew. Lost in an episode, and despite escalating tensions aboard, Marlin struggles to save his grandfather from an untimely death. It doesnt take him long, however, to discover that changing the past isnt quite as easy as it may seem.

Download or read book Tombstone Inscriptions in the Temecula Public Cemetery 1889 2012 written by Mary Kay Hushman Lavezzari and published by Mary Kay Hushman. This book was released on 2012-07-22 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A directory of the tombstones in the Temecula Public Cemetery, Temecula, California, USA, listing names, dates, symbols and complete inscriptions. Includes photographic collages of historical markers.

Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Grieving and Recovery written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers mourning the loss of a loved one will find solace and strength in these 101 emotional and inspiration stories from those who have gone through the grieving process. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery will help readers during this difficult time. Everyone grieves in their own way. While the hurt and sadness never completely fade, it eases with time. Contributors who have gone through the grieving and recovery process share their stories, offering guidance and support in this collection of personal and poignant stories. With its stories of regaining strength, appreciating life, coping, and faith, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery will ease the journey to healing.

Download or read book What Remains written by Carole Radziwill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces her life and marriage to Anthony Radziwill, President Kennedy's nephew, in an account that describes her work as a journalist, her friendship with JFK, Jr., and his wife, and her husband's struggle with terminal cancer.

Download or read book Living with What You Love written by Monica Rich Kosann and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed portrait photographer Monica Rich Kosann has spent a career helping people add a final layer of personality to their home once the interior designer's work is done. Monica's clients--celebrities, designers, socialites--want to find ways to add warmth and love to rooms, celebrating what they cherished most--be it family, pets, jewelry, books, or travel. Having helped countless families artfully present their family photography, heirlooms, and collectibles, she now divulges the secrets to her skill in this book. Living with What You Love shows you how to integrate your treasured objects with your home's décor. With inventive ideas as simple as arranging a vignette of vacation souvenirs, and as complex as covering an entire wall with family photographs and memorabilia, Living with What You Love offers the skilled guidance of Monica's trained eye. There's inspiration for everyone, and for every type of space, whether small or grand. Anything can be a stage for display: a coffee table can be arranged with collectibles; kitchen shelves a showcase for heirloom stoneware, while walls are a canvas to be covered with happy times. Full of stunning photographs of the homes of real families, those of well-known interior designers, and Monica's own, Living with What You Love is a gorgeous and helpful guide that will help you bring your most cherished possessions into your everyday life. MONICA RICH KOSANN is a nationally recognized fine-art portrait photographer, who has worked with many prestigious families and celebrities, as well as a designer of jewelry and home accessories. Her work has been profiled extensively in national print, such as Town & Country and Elle Décor, and television media, including NBC's Today Show and Tim Gunn's Guide to Style. Her collections are sold in fine jewelry stores and gift shops nationwide, as well as at Barneys, Neiman Marcus, and her own shop within Bergdorf Goodman. Visit her web site at www.thefineartoffamily.com.