Download or read book You re a Miracle and a Pain in the Ass written by Mike McHargue and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Holding brain science in one hand and rich emotional presence in the other, this book feels timely and necessary.”—Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author of Present Over Perfect Why is there such a gap between what you want to do and what you actually do? The host of Ask Science Mike explains why our desires and our real lives are so wildly different—and what you can do to close the gap. For thousands of years, scientists, philosophers, and self-help gurus have wrestled with one of the basic conundrums of human life: Why do we do the things we do? Or, rather, why do we so often not do the things we want to do? As a podcast host whose voice goes out to millions each month, Mike McHargue gets countless emails from people seeking to understand their own misbehavior—why we binge on Netflix when we know taking a walk outside would be better for us, or why we argue politics on Facebook when our real friends live just down the street. Everyone wants to be a good person, but few of us, twenty years into the new millennium, have any idea how to do that. In You’re a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass), McHargue addresses these issues. We like to think we’re in control of our thoughts and decisions, he writes, but science has shown that a host of competing impulses, emotions, and environmental factors are at play in every action we undertake. Touching on his podcast listeners’ most pressing questions, from relationships and ethics to stress and mental health, and sharing some of the biggest triumphs and hardships from his own life, McHargue shows us how some of our qualities that seem most frustrating—including “negative” emotions like sadness, anger, and anxiety—are actually key to helping humans survive and thrive. In doing so, he invites us on a path of self-understanding and, ultimately, self-acceptance. You’re a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass) is a guided tour through the mystery of human consciousness, showing readers how to live more at peace with themselves in a complex world.

Download or read book The Age of Miracles written by Karen Thompson Walker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People ∙ O: The Oprah Magazine ∙ Financial Times ∙ Kansas City Star ∙ BookPage ∙ Kirkus Reviews ∙ Publishers Weekly ∙ Booklist NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A stunner.”—Justin Cronin “It’s never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass—it’s the ones you don’t expect at all,” says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in a time of extraordinary change. On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer; gravity is affected; the birds, the tides, human behavior, and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray. In a world that seems filled with danger and loss, Julia also must face surprising developments in herself, and in her personal world—divisions widening between her parents, strange behavior by her friends, the pain and vulnerability of first love, a growing sense of isolation, and a surprising, rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker gives us a breathtaking portrait of people finding ways to go on in an ever-evolving world. “Gripping drama . . . flawlessly written; it could be the most assured debut by an American writer since Jennifer Egan’s Emerald City.”—The Denver Post “Pure magnificence.”—Nathan Englander “Provides solace with its wisdom, compassion, and elegance.”—Curtis Sittenfeld “Riveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.

Download or read book No Limits written by Donna Sparks and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The naysayers of the world want to convince us that the days of God working miracles have passed. But in No Limits: Embracing the Miraculous, Donna Sparks uses contemporary testimonies of powerful miracles released into the lives of believers and non-believers alike to show God has not changed. He has worked miracles in the past, and there are no limits on His ability to work miracles today. Backed by Scriptural truth, the author assures her readers that they can depend on God to not only know their needs but also meet them. God lives in the realm of the miraculous, and He wants us to live there too. In this new book by Donna Sparks, she inspires her readers to not only believe for their own miracles today but also take the good news to others that God is still in the miracle-working business.

Download or read book The Age of Miracles written by Marianne Williamson and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on OWN’s Super Soul Sunday! The need for change as we get older—an emotional pressure for one phase of our lives to transition into another—is a human phenomenon, neither male nor female. There simply comes a time in our lives—not fundamentally different from the way puberty separates childhood from adulthood—when it’s time for one part of ourselves to die and for something new to be born. The purpose of this book by best-selling author and lecturer Marianne Williamson is to psychologically and spiritually reframe this transition so that it leads to a wonderful sense of joy and awakening. In our ability to rethink our lives lies our greatest power to change them. What we have called "middle age" need not be seen as a turning point toward death. It can be viewed as a magical turning point toward life as we’ve never known it, if we allow ourselves the power of an independent imagination, utilizing thought-forms that don’t simply flow in a perfunctory manner from ancient assumptions handed down to us, but rather flower into new archetypal images of a humanity just getting started at 45 or 50. What we’ve learned by that time, from both our failures as well as our successes, tends to have humbled us into purity. When we were young, we had energy but were clueless about what to do with it. Today, we have less energy, perhaps, but we have far more understanding of what each breath of life is for. And now at last, we have a destiny to fulfill—not a destiny of a life that’s simply over, but rather a destiny of a life that is finally truly lived. Midlife is not a crisis; it’s a time of rebirth. It’s not a time to accept your death; it’s a time to accept your life—and to finally, truly live it, as you and you alone know deep in your heart it was meant to be lived.

Download or read book Embracing the Miraculous written by Deepika Avanti and published by Blue Dolphin Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing more than 40 exercises that can transform an abstract belief of God into something to be experienced through emotions, intuition, body senses, and as an energy flow, Avanti shares spellbinding stories of her adventures.

Download or read book When You Need a Miracle written by Ann Spangler and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOR DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE THE USA. When life is challenging, each of can benefit from a daily dose of hope and faith. That's what this devotional will bring you—stories of miracles and angels drawn directly from Scripture and from the lives of ordinary people today. Story after story will help you to remember that God is in control and that he still loves you.

Download or read book Embracing A Miracle written by Courtney Mount and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 21-day devotional book focuses on strengthening your faith during the hard moments in life. The book parallels the journey of one family as they received the diagnosis that their two-year-old daughter had stage 4 Neuroblastoma, an agressive childhood cancer. This book explores how they developed a deeper faith in God, focused on trusting him, the despair they felt, and eventually finding peace when the answered prayers look different than they had imagined. The topics of this book are applicable to the storms of life that you may be facing now or even in times to come. Find the companion journal, Embracing A Miracle, that allows a dedicated, lined space to write your own thoughts and prayers as you take the 21 day journey to align your faith with the heart of God.

Download or read book The Unwinding of the Miracle written by Julie Yip-Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more—a powerful exhortation to the living. “An exquisitely moving portrait of the daily stuff of life.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle. Born blind in Vietnam, she narrowly escaped euthanasia at the hands of her grandmother, only to flee with her family the political upheaval of her country in the late 1970s. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. She would go on to become a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, and a life she had once assumed would be impossible. Then, at age thirty-seven, with two little girls at home, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began. The Unwinding of the Miracle is the story of a vigorous life refracted through the prism of imminent death. When she was first diagnosed, Julie Yip-Williams sought clarity and guidance through the experience and, finding none, began to write her way through it—a chronicle that grew beyond her imagining. Motherhood, marriage, the immigrant experience, ambition, love, wanderlust, tennis, fortune-tellers, grief, reincarnation, jealousy, comfort, pain, the marvel of the body in full rebellion—this book is as sprawling and majestic as the life it records. It is inspiring and instructive, delightful and shattering. It is a book of indelible moments, seared deep—an incomparable guide to living vividly by facing hard truths consciously. With humor, bracing honesty, and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, Julie Yip-Williams set the stage for her lasting legacy and one final miracle: the story of her life. Praise for The Unwinding of the Miracle “Everything worth understanding and holding on to is in this book. . . . A miracle indeed.”—Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author “A beautifully written, moving, and compassionate chronicle that deserves to be read and absorbed widely.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies

Download or read book The 5 A M Miracle written by Jeff Sanders and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begin your day the right way with this blueprint for maximizing productivity, perfecting your schedule, and making more time to enjoy life. The 5 A.M. Miracle is a resource guide for high-achievers. It provides a seven-step blueprint for anyone looking for a structured system that will hone their passions, clarify their big goals, and produce real, amazing results. Productivity coach Jeff Sanders is a big fan of early mornings. But his blueprint is about more than just waking up early. It’s about intentionality. In The 5 AM Miracle, Jeff breaks down an easy-to-follow system of healthy habits, daily routines, and productivity strategies. It’s more actionable content than you could possibly imagine. He then summarizes this multitude of ideas into a clear, thirty-day action plan.

Download or read book Life Is a Miracle written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] scathing assessment . . . Berry shows that Wilson's much–celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion, art, and everything else that is good to science . . . Berry is one of the most perceptive critics of American society writing today.” —The Washington Post “I am tempted to say he understands [Consilience] better than Wilson himself . . . A new emancipation proclamation in which he speaks again and again about how to defy the tyranny of scientific materialism.”—The Christian Science Monitor In Life Is a Miracle, the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three in the mix we are left at sea in the world.

Download or read book A Miracle to Believe in written by Barry Neil Kaufman and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tablet of Miracle written by Albright Frank Okeke and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-01-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tablet Of Miracle: Embracing Faith and Grace in Everyday Life "Tablet Of Miracle" is not just a book; it's a spiritual guide to transforming your life through the power of faith. This insightful work delves into the principles of living a life guided by divine wisdom, as illustrated by scriptural teachings, particularly those found in Habakkuk 2:4 and Ephesians 2:8. The book begins with a powerful call to live by faith, encouraging readers to embrace a lifestyle that reflects trust in God's plan and the grace provided through Jesus Christ. It emphasizes that faith is the key to unlocking a life of fulfillment, far beyond what material pursuits can offer. As you journey through the chapters, "Tablet Of Miracle" unveils the profound impact of grace in a believer's life. It teaches that understanding one's identity in Christ is crucial for navigating life's challenges. The book articulates how grace is not just a concept but a tangible force that strengthens and empowers, especially in times of weakness. Each section of "Tablet Of Miracle" is crafted to offer both theoretical understanding and practical steps for incorporating these teachings into daily life. Whether readers are seasoned in their faith or newly exploring spiritual concepts, this book serves as a compassionate guide, illuminating the path towards a life of grace, purpose, and spiritual fulfillment. "Tablet Of Miracle" addresses the transformational power of declaring faith through words and actions. It encourages readers to shift from a pattern of faithless living to a life where every decision and action is infused with trust in God's promises. The book includes prayers and affirmations that readers can use as tools to reinforce their faith journey. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to deepen their faith, understand the virtues of humility and justice, or find solace and guidance in uncertain times. It speaks to the heart of those yearning for a deeper spiritual connection and offers a beacon of hope and wisdom. Embrace the journey that "Tablet Of Miracle" offers. Let it guide you to a destiny where peace, understanding, and an unshakeable connection with the divine become your everyday reality. This book is more than words on a page; it's a pathway to a life transformed by the miraculous power of faith and grace.

Download or read book God Has a Miracle for You written by Celeste Payne and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God has a Miracle for You!I don't know about you, but I feel that it's about time for a miracle. Since creation, God has been interjecting miracles into the lives of His people. Miracles transcend all economic, social, mental, spiritual, emotional and educational barriers. Miracles are not based on the extremity of your need, but in most cases, the extremity of your faith's desire for a miracle. If you need a miracle, this book will be a constant reminder of the God's miracle working power. By sharing Biblical insight and supporting scriptures, your faith, desire and expection for the miraculous will be stimulated and grow. Page after page will prove to be a wind of inspiration and hope that fans the fire for miracle to flow in your life.In this book, we will:Explore 11 categories of miracles with scriptural references.Explore the definitions and biblical context of miracles.Unfold revelation about the relevance of miracles.Learn to recognize the signs that a miracle is near.Have our fire and desire to see miracles revived.Go from a place of wondering to a place of signs and wonders.As you read the following pages, open your heart to the reality that as a child of God you have the right to receive miracles.You should know of a surety that "God Has a Miracle for You!."

Download or read book One More Miracle written by Marjorie L. Kimbrough and published by Dimensions For Living. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Open the Eyes of My Heart written by Jodie M. Chappuis and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open the Eyes of My Heart: Embracing the Joys of Everyday Miracles tells the story of the authors life, beginning with her experiencewhen she was only three years oldof surviving a life-threatening accident and living to tell others about her encounter with Jesus. This incident shaped her faith and led her down the path of sharing with others the changes she felt in her life because of the grace of God. The author, Jodie M. Chappuis, writes her account so that readers can hear her talking to them directly. Reading the story of her life in Open the Eyes of My Heart brings her voice to life in the same way that her students in confirmation classes or her clients sitting in their chairs as she works on styling their hair have experienced her gift for telling the story of her life. Open the Eyes of My Heart: Embracing the Joys of Everyday Miracles begins with one little girls life-extending encounter with Jesus and then tells how his grace touches daily life in joyous and miraculous ways.

Download or read book Embracing Obscurity written by Anonymous and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues for a life based on humility, service, and sacrifice instead of the accepted worldview of a life valuing fame and recognition.

Download or read book Anatomy of a Miracle written by Jonathan Miles and published by Chatto & Windus. This book was released on 2018 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Confined to a wheelchair after a paralyzing injury, an Afghanistan War veteran endures a hardscrabble existence in his sister's ramshackle Mississippi home before spontaneously regaining his ability to walk, an apparent miracle that subjects him to scientific and religious debates and exposes his most private secrets."--