Download or read book Wondrous Encounters written by Richard Rohr and published by Franciscan Media. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rohr's meditations on the daily readings of Lent are not for the sake of mere information, or even for academia (although the author hopes it will satisfy both), but for the sake of our transformation into our original "image and likeness," which is the very image of God. What always and finally matters for all of us is encounter! Father Rohr begins each meditation with a single title or phrase that sums up the point. Then he offers the meditation followed by key passages from the readings. He ends each meditation with a Starter Prayer that invites you to self-disclosure and to enter the wondrous divine dialogue with clarity, insight—and holy desire! "There are two moments that matter. One is when you know that your one and only life is absolutely valuable and alive. The other is when you know your life, as presently lived, is entirely pointless and empty. You need both of them to keep you going in the right direction. Lent is about both. The first such moment gives you energy and joy by connecting you with your ultimate Source and Ground. The second gives you limits and boundaries, and a proper humility, so you keep seeking the Source and Ground and not just your small self."—From the Introduction

Download or read book Wondrous written by Preston Dennett and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraterrestrials have arrived! Wondrous contains 25 all new original cases of people who have had extensive UFO encounters. Published here for the first time, these true firsthand accounts cover the gamut of the UFO phenomenon: sightings, USOs, landings, face-to-face meetings with ETs, onboard UFO encounters, and whistleblower stories revealing shocking secrets the government doesn't want you to know. Longtime UFO researcher Preston Dennett takes you on a fascinating journey deep into the heart of the unknown. These 25 startling and wondrous UFO encounters will change the way you view UFOs and these strange visitors to our planet. --A schoolteacher encounters a 15-foot-tall mantis alien during a morning jog outside her home. --A young couple expecting their first child discover that extraterrestrials have taken their baby. --A dental assistant awakens to find bug-like aliens surrounding her bed. --When weird alien symbols appear on her body, a therapist begins a journey that leads her to a shocking discovery. --Silver-suited ETs appear in the bedroom of an office-worker, and her life will never be the same. --A series of bizarre events culminate in an incredible healing encounter. --A young artist is visited by short blue humanoids intent on recording all her memories. --After being visited by grays, a couple learn that they both have a history of encounters reaching back to childhood. --A business man encounters a humanoid in his hotel room, sparking memories of other unexplained events in his life. --A woman's encounter with friendly grays leads to a spiritual awakening and dire warnings for all humankind. --A young child is greeted by a UFO with a telepathic message meant only for her. --A married couple flying in a commercial jet are shocked to see a silver disc flying right outside their window. --Three teen-agers are accosted by a UFO, which sends down a beam of light, trying to abduct them. --A family discover they are living in a UFO hotspot and are amazed to see a giant saucer land in their front yard. --A group of teenagers come upon a landed saucer and humanoids who are not happy to see them. --Three people see a UFO rises from the ocean and hover over the factory smokestacks near their home. --A construction worker takes an assignment at Edwards AFB where he makes the mistake of looking into a secret hangar and views something he was not supposed to see. --A military officer is invited into the inner sanctum of the government UFO cover-up, and learns secrets that shake him to the core of his being. --A man working at Malmstrom AFB in South Dakota becomes embroiled in one of the most famous encounters in UFO history. --A young boy starts having nightmares of being chased by a giant grasshopper, leading him to the realization that he might be a UFO abductee. --Two brothers encounter a UFO in a public place, then one of the brothers is approached on the street by someone who is clearly not human. --A trip to the beach with a group of friends leads to a terrifying encounter with ten-foot-tall strange humanoids. --The life of a conservative religious man is turned upside down when grays appear in his home and take him and his infant son onboard a UFO. --A mother and her teen-age son are baffled to see that his dental x-rays show what appears to be an implant in his jaw, but how did it get there? --A writer with a history of alien encounters finds herself having a telepathic conversation with a gray alien named Sen, who has something important to tell her. Why are ETs here? Are they hostile or benevolent? What is their agenda on this planet? These 25 incredible accounts represent the cutting edge of UFO research and answer many of the mysteries surrounding the UFO phenomenon.

Download or read book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Pulitzer Prize Winner written by Junot Díaz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read and named one of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.

Download or read book Marvelous Possessions written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterwork of history and cultural studies, Marvelous Possessions is a brilliant meditation on the interconnected ways in which Europeans of the Age of Discovery represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, particularly in the New World. In a series of innovative readings of travel narratives, judicial documents, and official reports, Stephen Greenblatt shows that the experience of the marvelous, central to both art and philosophy, was manipulated by Columbus and others in the service of colonial appropriation. Much more than simply a collection of the odd and exotic, Marvelous Possessions is both a highly original extension of Greenblatt’s thinking on a subject that has permeated his career and a thrilling tale of wandering, kidnapping, and go-betweens—of daring improvisation, betrayal, and violence. Reaching back to the ancient Greeks, forward to the present, and, in his new preface, even to fantastical meetings between humans and aliens in movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Greenblatt would have us ask: How is it possible, in a time of disorientation, hatred of the other, and possessiveness, to keep the capacity for wonder—for tolerant recognition of cultural difference—from being poisoned?

Download or read book Wondrous Strange written by Lesley Livingston and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 17 year old actress Kelly Winslow thinks that playing the role of the fairy queen Titania in a production of Shapespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream could be her lucky break-if she can pull it off.

Download or read book Traveling Encounters Volume 1 written by Jerry Joe Seltzer and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fill your world with wondrous encounters that utilize every aspect of the game. This collection includes 47 encounters to keep everyone entertained and engaged as they journey through your campaign world.

Download or read book More Power to You written by Margaret Feinberg and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life-changing healing can be yours. And you can make it happen in only 90 seconds a day. Each of the 52 devotions in More Power to You by Bible teacher Margaret Feinberg examines a popular lie in our culture and invites you to replace that lie with a biblical affirmation of truth that will bring joy to your soul. In a culture that constantly tells us we're not good enough, not beautiful enough, and not doing enough, it's easy to feel as if we have nothing to offer. Lies about who we are and how we are failing slip into our thinking until we believe they are reality. But that's not what God intends for us. In More Power to You, Margaret Feinberg: exposes these false beliefs shows you that the places of your deepest hurts can become wellsprings of your greatest healing shares the daily practice that has been so life changing for her: Daily Declarations You'll launch into each day by reading the 90-Second Daily Declaration aloud, paying attention to what the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you. Then you'll read through the weekly devotion, exploring the what and the why behind those biblical truths. These brief but powerful devotions are designed to unleash the true you and remind you of who you really are. More Power to You equips men and women to: embrace your true identity every day find power in knowing you are already worthy in God's eyes break free from the negative thoughts that hold you hostage Try the 90-Second Daily Declaration Challenge and experience the joyous life God wants for you.

Download or read book Foreign encounters written by Mara R. Wade and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book God Stories written by Jennifer Skiff and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of inspiring stories describing the moment when people received personal proof God exists Have you ever experienced a miracle? A prayer was answered or an accident was averted? For many, these mysterious and inspiring events are proof positive that God exists. This collection of life-changing stories celebrates the breakthrough moments when the hand of a divine power is felt: A doctor opens the chest of a dying heart patient to discover her heart is healed; Marines watch as a fellow soldier in Iraq is hit by a powerful explosion but remains uninjured; a young woman loses her boyfriend on 9/11 and receives a message that brings her peace. Reassuring, hopeful, and unforgettable, these amazing confirmations of divine intervention will lift your spirits and leave you wondering–and even remembering–when your life was touched by a miracle. “A wide range of heavenly touches, everything from quiet hugs to stunning out-of-body experiences.” —Joan Wester Anderson, author of Where Angels Walk and Angels and Wonders “Reading this book is a touching and soul-penetrating experience.” —Mark Victor Hansen, cocreater of the #1 New York Times bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series and coauthor of The One Minute Millionaire “A bouquet of inspiring stories...for the believer and nonbeliever alike.” —Julia Cameron, bestselling author of The Artist’s Way

Download or read book The Wondrous Woo written by Carrianne Leung and published by Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Asian American Studies. On the inside, Miramar Woo is a kick-ass kung fu heroine with rock star flash, sassy attitude, and an insatiable appetite for adventure, but she is forced to watch helplessly as her family unravels in the aftermath of her father's unexpected death. Her younger siblings suddenly and mysteriously become savants, in possession of uncanny talents nicknamed The Gifts. As her siblings are swept up into the fantastic world of fame and fortune and her mother fights off madness, Miramar is left behind, feeling talentless and abandoned with no idea who she really is or who she wants to become. She is utterly on her own.

Download or read book The Universal Christ written by Richard Rohr and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus was called “Christ,” and how this forgotten truth can restore hope and meaning to our lives. “Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book.”—Melinda Gates In his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard Rohr has helped millions realize what is at stake in matters of faith and spirituality. Yet Rohr has never written on the most perennially talked about topic in Christianity: Jesus. Most know who Jesus was, but who was Christ? Is the word simply Jesus’s last name? Too often, Rohr writes, our understandings have been limited by culture, religious debate, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center. Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work in the world. “God loves things by becoming them,” he writes, and Jesus’s life was meant to declare that humanity has never been separate from God—except by its own negative choice. When we recover this fundamental truth, faith becomes less about proving Jesus was God, and more about learning to recognize the Creator’s presence all around us, and in everyone we meet. Thought-provoking, practical, and full of deep hope and vision, The Universal Christ is a landmark book from one of our most beloved spiritual writers, and an invitation to contemplate how God liberates and loves all that is.

Download or read book Angels Devils written by Gerhard Jaritz and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supernatural phenomena and causalities played an important role in medieval society. Religious practice was relying upon a set of cult images and the sacral status of these depictions of divine or supernatural persons became the object of heated debates and provoked iconoclastic reactions.The miraculous intervention of saints or other divine agents, the wondrous realities beyond understanding, or the manifestations of magic attributed to diabolic forces, were contained by a variety of discourses, described and discussed in religion, philosophy, chronicles, literature and fiction, and also in a large number of pictures and material objects. The nine essays in this collection discusses how supernatural phenomena – especially angels and devils – found visual manifestation in Latin and Eastern Christianity as well as Judaism in the late medieval, early renaissance period.

Download or read book Alignment written by Chuck Parry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would happen if we truly believed Jesus’s promise that we will do the same things He did during His earthly ministry—and even greater things? And what does it take for us to live in that naturally supernatural way? When the power of the Word and the power of the Holy Spirit come together in a son or daughter of God, miracles happen. In this book— powerfully annotated by supporting Scripture—Chuck Parry delivers the same practical principles he teaches thousands of people a year in conferences all over the world about the simplicity of living a supernaturally empowered life that brings Heaven to Earth in the most tangible ways. When you read Alignment, you will: • Be encouraged by Chuck’s personal tales and inspired to take similar risks in your own life • Have your eyes opened to see the abundance of Heaven within and around you • Break free of the lies of lack and limitation that have kept you powerless • Experience more personal freedom, excitement, and joy in your Christian walk • Learn how to minister more powerfully to those in need around you

Download or read book Celeterra written by Clemens Suter and published by via tolino media. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vance obtains a valuable, 18th century Rococo table. Vance discovers that the table has a secret compartment, containing a long lost letter from Charles Darwin, the father of evolution. Table and letter are stolen, and to make his life even more complicated, Vance falls madly in love with Martha... the sister of the robber. Then Martha disappears too. Has she died? A ruthless religious sect seems to be involved – controlled by an invisible mastermind. Assisted by Eugene, Vance's one-eyed dog, he sets out on a quest for truth, vowing to get both Martha and the letter back. However, as Vance finds out, he will need to search far beyond our Earth... Only through perseverance can Vance unravel the shocking secret of CELETERRA.

Download or read book Archetypes written by Caroline Myss and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why you are drawn to certain people, ideas, or products and turned off by others? Are you constantly searching for something you can’t put your finger on, or wondering whether you are living a life that truly fits? In Archetypes: Who Are You?, New York Times best-selling author Caroline Myss delves into the world of archetypes, which have been the subject of her work for more than 25 years. Archetypes are universal patterns of behavior that, once discovered, help you better understand yourself and your place in the world. In short, knowing your archetypes can transform your life. Within the pages of this book, Myss writes about ten primary feminine archetypes that have emerged in today’s society: the Caregiver, the Artist/Creative, the Fashionista, the Intellectual, the Rebel, the Queen/Executive, the Advocate, the Visionary, the Athlete, and the Spiritual Seeker. In each chapter, she explains one individual archetype, showing how it has evolved and then in fascinating detail lays out the unique characteristics, the defining graces, the life challenges, and other information to help you understand if you are part of this archetype family and if so, how you can fully tap into its power. She also offers tips and practical advice on how to fully engage with your archetypes. Learning which archetypes best describe you is just the beginning. You can then use this knowledge to make more conscious decisions about everything from careers to relationships, avoiding common pitfalls of your personality type while playing up your strengths. The result is a happier, more authentic you. It’s never too late to change your life by embracing your archetypes to the fullest. So are you a Rebel? An Artist? A Visionary? Join us . . . and find yourself.

Download or read book Ghosts of New York written by Jim Lewis and published by West Virginia University Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary novel with a New York setting and a dash of speculative fiction, for fans of Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, and Dana Spiotta. Ghosts of New York is a novel in which the laws of time and space have been subtly suspended. It interweaves four strands: a photographer newly returned to the neighborhood where she grew up, after years spent living overseas; a foundling raised on 14th Street; a graduate student, his romantic partner, and his best friend entangled in a set of relationships with far-reaching personal and political repercussions; and a shopkeeper suffering from first love late in life. Mixing prophecy, history, and a hint of speculative fiction, its stories are bound together even as they are propelled into stranger territory. And undergirding it all is a song, which appears, disappears, and then resurfaces. Ghosts of New York explores complex lives through indelible renderings of settings-a bar, a night market, a recording studio-that alternate between familiar and unsettling. The work of a celebrated novelist and veteran of the art, film, and music scenes in New York and Austin (described as "a rare talent" by the New York Times and "a powerful literary voice" by Jeffrey Eugenides), this novel will immediately absorb readers intrigued by creative people and the places that sustain and challenge them.