Download or read book The Joy Makers written by James Gunn and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Happiness, Guaranteed..." In the not-too-distant future, money truly can buy happiness, and Hedonics, Inc., is willing to sell it to you. They'll even offer you a money-back guarantee, if you're not "happy" with the product. But with their team of psychologists, life specialists, and self-improvement coaches, they don't have any "unhappy" customers. What happens when a company grows too big, becomes too successful? It wants to guarantee its place in society and its future, and Hedonics is no exception. When your product is happiness, the way you guarantee your success is to pass laws mandating happiness. But when universal happiness is required, does it really matter if you're getting what you want, or happy with what you have? James Gunn has been a professional science fiction writer for more than 60 years, and in 2007, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him a Grand Master.

Download or read book Makers of Joy and Peace written by H. A. Dale and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church has not focused on the search for joy and peace but on the forgiveness of human sin as the way to joy and peace. The church and its leaders proclaim it. Unfortunately, for many Christians, the gospel now means “the truth of God’s forgiveness” instead of an “expression of perfect joy.” As a result, the search for joy and peace has been left in the hands of advertising agencies and entrepreneurs who sell happiness in all its varieties. People hunger for happiness and long for laughter and joy. At parties, we laugh our heads off, but when we go home, the joy fades. We cry out for the ability to lay ourselves down and get a good night’s rest. We long to live our daily lives without threats of any kind. We have the largest military in the world protecting us. But we do not feel safe and joyful. Join the author as he shares the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and find the joy and peace you so desperately need in your life.

Download or read book A Happy Book of Little Gifts to Make written by Sarah Hand and published by Walter Foster Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep your hands busy and your mind playing and free of stress with A Happy Book of Little Gifts to Make. From professional artist Sarah Hand, the author of Art Makers: Papier-Mache, this book features easy-to-follow step-by-step projects, creative inspiration, and prompts—all designed to be done at home using affordable, accessible materials. Best of all, the projects are small-scale, so they are portable, giftable, adorable, and fun! A Happy Book of Little Gifts to Make includes varied projects done in all kinds of materials, from papier-mache and paper to crayons, paint, and paint pens. With this book, you can learn to make: Dioramas Papier-mache creatures Pop-up cards Cotton dolls And much more Throughout the book, find tips for having fun and relaxing as you create, plus creative inspiration and prompts so that you can use this book as a starting point for art projects you devise on your own. After a stressful year (or decade?), everyone needs to have fun and let loose, and what better way than with art that can be created at home and with materials you already have? The small size of the projects makes them manageable even for beginning crafters and artists, and kids will love working on the projects too (possibly with a little adult help). The art is adorable and whimsical and appeals to artists of all ages and skill levels, including beginning crafters, DIYers, crafty families, and more. Grab your paper, paints, and more and then set up at the kitchen counter to start your stress-free creative life with A Happy Book of Little Gifts to Make from a professional artist and instructor.

Download or read book Joy the Baker Cookbook written by Joy Wilson and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy the Baker Cookbook includes everything from "Man Bait" Apple Crisp to Single Lady Pancakes to Peanut Butter Birthday Cake. Joy's philosophy is that everyone loves dessert; most people are just looking for an excuse to eat cake for breakfast.

Download or read book The Book of More Delights written by Ross Gay and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.

Download or read book Reduced to Joy written by Mark Nepo and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Nepo is emerging as one of the truly significant writers and thinkers of today. Nepo has a singular way of distilling great truths down to their essence. Moreover, during his cancer journey, Nepo relied on the power of expression and the writing process to keep him tethered to life. In Reduced to Joy, Mark Nepo explores the places where pain and joy are stitched to resilience, uncovering them with deep wisdom, poetic passages and personal revelations. Nepo reminds us all of the secret and sacred places within, forgotten in the noise and chatter of our busy distracted 21st Century lives. Reduced to Joy is a lesson in stillness, in standing in the mystery and, above all, in the work of love.

Download or read book Life s Joy Killers and Joy Makers written by LaVon Koerner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christ said, “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full” (John 15:11). A joy-filled person is the best advertisement Christ has for a joyless world to consider his loving offer of salvation. The second fruit of the Spirit (joy) makes one an inspirational and infectious person to be around, whether you are a marriage partner, a business leader, or a next-door neighbor. The way Christ wants to accomplish this in and for us is through his two-step process as outlined in Colossians 3: •Step One: “Put to death therefore what is earthly in you” (Col 3:5). We will refer to this as the removal of a Joy Killer. •Step Two: “Put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge” (Col 3:10). We will refer to this as a Joy Maker. Each chapter is divided into these two steps. First, it begins with a removal of a Joy Killer and it is immediately followed with its replacement of a Joy Maker. With each chapter, you find an increasingly deep and rewarding joy as you pitch your tent one day closer to eternity.

Download or read book The Joy of Worship written by Marianne H. Micks and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an ecumenical approach to the meaning of worship, The Joy of Worship discusses the work of the Holy Spirit in worship, Jesus' own practice of worship, the importance of worshiping with others, and the practice of discipleship through personal prayer, friendship, and a rule of life. Christians have been worshiping a long time, and Micks has a rich store of wisdom and experience to draw on. Her sources are both ancient and modern, Protestant and Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican.

Download or read book Pure Joy written by Jessica Levy and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-03-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” - James 1:2-4 Life happens. Times get tough, bills pile up, relationships take work, we lose people we love, accidents happen, and dreams are deferred. How can you trust that God is good when life often isn’t? In Pure Joy, author Jessica Levy shows you how to live abundantly when it seems easier to give up. Through insightful study of scripture and powerful personal reflection, Levy reveals that when you embrace God’s purpose for your life and his relentless love for you, you’ll uncover joy as the bright new lens through which to view difficult times. You’ll find that God, the one who created you, has carved the greatest opportunities for you in some of life’s most challenging seasons. Pure Joy shares that God makes us and remakes us to bring his glory to this earth. It is in his hands that we find our identity, our worth, our purpose, and our dreams.

Download or read book Age of Joy written by Yaseva and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you at some time or the other, wondered whether it is ever possible for human civilization to move away from its present inconsistent and jarring ways? Whether the deep-down-desires of human beings will ever get met in a widespread way? If the anxiety, uncertainty and confusion that seem to be the norm of these times, get replaced with rampant and pervasive peace, happiness and joy? Many feel that the world is progressing, especially with the advancement in technology and communication. But in reality, if one looks closely, it is debatable whether humanity is moving up or sliding down. The global pandemic, violent territorial disputes between nations, religious chauvinism, intolerance, extreme poverty, violence against women and children, trafficking, discrimination and so on are certainly not manifestations of human civilization progressing, it’s more like degeneration. The Climate Emergency we are living in is pushing the planet towards extinction. The unscrupulous pharmaceutical industry is exploiting the health system for financial gains. The humongous war and armament industry drives the economy of developed nations and subversively fuels conflicts and jingoism among neighboring nations to keep their market flourishing. The insatiable greed of corporate tycoons for endless growth and wealth-garnering has no consideration for the livelihood of the vulnerable, causing chronic inequity. The mindless destruction and pollution of the planet’s primary resources, namely air, water and earth, to boost GDP, carries on merrily. All these are categorized as aspects of ‘un-workability’ and left to persist as situations that we are expected to live with. Pursuit of Joy is the panacea for all social anomalies and will usher human civilization into the Age of Joy.

Download or read book The Artist s Joy written by Merideth Hite Estevez and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2024 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're a dabbler, a career creative, or a self-proclaimed tortured artist, this book is for you. Professional oboist and creativity coach Dr. Merideth Hite Estevez guides artists in all levels and disciplines to build a creative life that resonates deeply with their core values. Complete with practical guides and companion playlist.

Download or read book The JOY of Giving Prosperity Politics in America and Why Evangelicals Have Not a Clue written by Philip Ellerbrock and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you tried purpose driven life-styles after Y2K, prayed the prayer of Jabez, and still find yourself empty and dissatisfied come credit crisis in 9/’08 or oil spilling off the Casino Coast? We have.Our journey takes us back to Christ—from Protestant “workaholic righteousness†—even from Mother Teresa’s revelations: how she lost the presence of Jesus in her life over sixty-six years of serving the poor in Calcutta, India. Could we find ourselves alienated from Christ too? Oh yes.Where’s the JOY and satisfaction we once knew? Is tithing by Law what God wants?Join us in finding out what Jesus Christ really has to say about trusting in ourselves, America, and easy step "What works for me" theology.

Download or read book Twelve Idyls and Other Poems written by Lascelles Abercrombie and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Joy of Coffee written by Corby Kummer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised and updated edition of the most authoritative guide to coffee, Corby Kummer travels the country and the world to give you all the latest information you need to make a great cup at home: * The best beans and how to buy and store them * The grinder that's essential for great coffee * Incisive reports on brewing and espresso-making equipment and tips on how to get the best from them, with photographs of current models * A complete, up-to-date list of sources for beans, equipment and Fair Trade organizations

Download or read book Journey Into Joy written by Glenda Yarde and published by PageFree Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to experience joy as an ever-present reality, even in the midst of adversity? The author answers that question in the affirmative, and presents a practical, Bible-centered approach to being possessed of this joy. Using the story of the woman with the spirit of infirmity as illustrative of Jesus' power to turn suffering into joy, this book takes the reader beyond experiencing joy as a product of circumstances, to experiencing joy as a spiritual attribute that comes and remains when one accepts and abides in Jesus Christ, the Joy Giver. Whether you are joyless, or desirous of enhancing your joy, this book is for you.

Download or read book The Joy of Cider written by Jeanette Hurt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun, festive guide for both the enthusiasts and bar professionals! Here isa smart, pop culture-driven look at the hard cider revolution—the what, how, and why of this fantastic beverage. Let’s face it: just ten years ago, hard cider was something sipped by expats watching rugby matches or pined for by former foreign exchange students. Heck, many people thought cider was something preschoolers drank in sippy cups before naptime. Not anymore. Hard cider sales have skyrocketed in the last decade, with craft cider sales increasing 49 percent in just the last two years. But though sales and interest in hard cider continue to grow, there’s still more than a bit of confusion regarding this blossoming alcoholic beverage. Is it a beer, or is it a wine? Is cider-beer a thing? Are all ciders sweet? Polls reveal that some drinkers think Mike’s Hard Lemonade and Redd’s Apple Ale are cider (they’re not). This informative book will include: A brief overview of world cider history A more detailed pop culture history of American cider’s explosive growth Definitions, regions, fun facts, and famous cider and apple quotes An exploration of cider varieties and brands More than 50 cider cocktail recipes! The book explores the cider varieties and brands to try, touches on the history of the drink that fueled the American Revolution, and details the do’s and don’ts of making cider cocktails.

Download or read book Experiencing Joy written by Allyson Tomkins and published by Advantage Media Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus promises a type of joy that no one and nothing else can provide. His joy is full and complete. His joy is unspeakable. His joy is powerful when it is paired with His ability to heal us and make us a whole. His joy lasts forever and no one can take it from you! As you enter into the wholehearted joy of the Master, He takes great pleasure in healing life's deepest hurts, replacing lies with the truth and restoring relationships that are broken, especially to Himself. He is the only true, life-giving joy and it is available to you now, even in your darkest moments. Each page of Experiencing Joy leads you through the journey of unblocking everything which stops you from reaching out and grabbing what is yours to have and to hold. It is no coincidence that as God perfects and completes you, your joy is made perfect. Join those who have discovered that giving God joy is the greatest purpose of life. But first you must make a choice: do you want to please God? Then you are ready to enter into the joy of the Lord! His joy lasts forever and no one can take it from you!