Download or read book Meditations for Misfits written by Marcia Ford and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2003-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditations for Misfits offers a new look at familiar passages of the Bible; each of the insightful weekly readings uses Scripture, a quote or excerpt, and a prayer to underscore the intrinsic value and uniqueness of misfits. This fresh approach to understanding the spiritual journey offers an awareness of God's activity in each life, a new vision for life in the community of faith, and the hope for greater self-acceptance.

Download or read book Meditations for Spiritual Misfits written by Robert Badra and published by . This book was released on 1982-12-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memoir of a Misfit written by Marcia Ford and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2003-01-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a sense, of course, all believers are strangers in a strange land— some, as they say, are just stranger than others. That would be my friends and me." Like Marcia Ford, most of us have felt, at one time or another, as if we are on a different wavelength from the rest of the world. Try as we might, we don't fit in— not in society and certainly not in the church. Despite our best efforts at camouflage, despite our hopes that we may finally have found a group of kindred believers, people still look at us funny. But if we stop to think about it, we're not in bad company. After all, Jesus was something of a misfit in His day, too. In this funny, fresh, and frank memoir, Marcia Ford chronicles her spiritual journey as a self-proclaimed misfit, telling the engaging story of one woman's efforts to fit into both society and the Christian church. Candid about her shortcomings and her sneaking suspicion that she may really be a square peg in a round hole, Marcia discovers that it is precisely because of her uniqueness that she is able to claim God's abundant grace and come to experience God more fully.

Download or read book Finding Hope written by Marcia Ford and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the freedom and joy that come when you open your heart to Hope This practical guide gives you the inspiration, encouragement and practices you need to cultivate a hopeful spirit and thus live a more fulfilling and joyful life. Writing from personal experience and her broad knowledge of many faith traditions, Marcia Ford helps you recognize—or develop—your own personal images of hope and create a place where you can go to see the many evidences of hope in your life any time despair seeps in. She provides important learning tools that you can apply to everyday life experiences, inspiring personal stories of hope from the famous and not-so-famous and realistic exercises for creating the overall balance and peace you look to achieve in living your life connected to God. Drawing from Christian and Hebrew scripture and the wisdom of spiritual teachers from all traditions, Ford helps you realize that we all can receive a gift of hope and grace from the Divine—we just need to be open to accept it. Topics include: Dealing with Disappointment It’s Not Wishful Thinking Impossible Situations Recovering from Loss Hope amid Suffering Overcoming Hopelessness Real and Imagined Threats The Heart of Healing Cultivating a Hopeful Spirit Freedom’s Fascinating Power And more ...

Download or read book Connected Kids written by Lorraine E Murray and published by Connected Kids Limited. This book was released on 2015-10-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to her best-selling book 'Calm Kids', author Lorraine Murray introduces a range of mindful, heart-felt activities to that will help children to teens learn to relax, de-stress and feel centered. You will discover how to develop bespoke tools that support children with special needs and those on the autistic spectrum. In this book you will: - learn how meditation can support brain development, emotional intelligence and improved learning - develop a bespoke meditation 'toolkit' to help children and teens to reduce anxiety and stress - learn how to use meditation to 'problem solve' and overcome challenges - read about worldwide research that supports the use of meditation for health and well-being - become empowered with mindful activities that help children to shine This book is ideal for educators, parents and professionals, especially those with/working with children with additional support needs. Lorraine E. Murray is the Managing Director of Connected Kids - a worldwide programme that teaches adults how to teach kids meditation. She has been researching and teaching this since 2003 and is the author of 'Calm Kids - Help Children Relax With Mindful Activities'.

Download or read book The Hidden Splendor written by Osho and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering Your Inner Beauty This book is a pilgrimage in search of that indefinable something that all of us, at some time or other in our lives, feel is missing – what Osho describes as our “hidden splendor.” “You go on missing something – something that you had known but you have forgotten – a faded memory, a lost remembrance. And the gap is not only a gap, it is a wound. It hurts, because you had brought something with your birth into the world and you have lost it somewhere. And it seems impossible to find it in this crowded universe. But unless it happens, your life has been in vain, a misery, a suffering, a futile longing, a meaningless desire, a thirst that you know cannot be quenched.” — Osho

Download or read book Power in Speech written by Leonard G. Nattkemper and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Delight and Power in Speech written by Leonard G. Nattkemper and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Meditations in Limbo written by Taban lo Liyong and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lost Nowhere written by Phoebe Garnsworthy and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily doesn't like change although it seems to follow her everywhere she goes. She does a pretty good job at rejecting it every chance she gets, but when she stumbles upon an enchanted world everything moves faster than she can even perceive possible. She has two choices-stay in misery on her own, or learn how to surrender.

Download or read book Diary of a Misfit written by Casey Parks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life. "Most moving is Parks’s depiction of a queer lineage, her assertion of an ancestry of outcasts, a tapestry of fellow misfits into which the marginalized will always, for better or worse, fit." —The New York Times Book Review When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks's grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, pulled her aside and revealed a startling secret. "I grew up across the street from a woman who lived as a man," and then implored Casey to find out what happened to him. Diary of a Misfit is the story of Parks's life-changing journey to unravel the mystery of Roy Hudgins, the small-town country singer from grandmother’s youth, all the while confronting ghosts of her own. For ten years, Parks traveled back to rural Louisiana and knocked on strangers’ doors, dug through nursing home records, and doggedly searched for Roy’s own diaries, trying to uncover what Roy was like as a person—what he felt; what he thought; and how he grappled with his sense of otherness. With an enormous heart and an unstinting sense of vulnerability, Parks writes about finding oneself through someone else’s story, and about forging connections across the gulfs that divide us.

Download or read book Emerson Thoreau written by John T. Lysaker and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively volume explores the theme of friendship in the lives and works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Written from diverse perspectives, the essays offer close readings of selected texts and draw on letters and journals to offer a comprehensive view of how Emerson's and Thoreau's friendships took root and bolstered their individual political, social, and ethical projects. This collection explores how Emerson and Thoreau, in their own ways, conceived of friendship as the creation of shared meaning in light of personal differences, tragedy and loss, and changing life circumstances. Emerson and Thoreau presents important reflections on the role of friendship in the lives of individuals and in global culture.

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Misfit Economy written by Alexa Clay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that argues that lessons in creativity, innovation, salesmanship, and entrepreneurship can come from surprising places: pirates, bootleggers, counterfeiters, hustlers, and others living and working on the margins of business and society.

Download or read book Spiritual Misfits Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World written by Shahar Rabi Dr and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book will offer you tools and skills to establish trauma-informed methods to develop long lasting and sustainable spiritual communities. It will engage you in deep and meaningful dialogue about the future intersection of faith, psychology and science and bring home the essential preliminary practices that are needed in todays diverse and complex world to build connections, enhance safety, and embody the heart of your contemplative life. Because what is called for is an upgrade to our cultural operating system! 'Spiritual Misfits' addresses the polarizing discourses in our inner lives, as well as in the realms of politics, religion, and culture. In this book, Dr. Shahar Rabi suggests that planetary destruction, divisiveness, and collective pain can be slowed down by offering a more inclusive story of who are. 'Spiritual Misfits' is part guide book and part call to action. For those who long to "come home" to traditions that cannot hold the breadth of their experience and values, it provides a map to co-create the future of spirituality. It also serves as a guide for those who long to reconnect with fellow humans found on the other side of ever-deepening political chasms. The book points to the next stage in spiritual community engagement by offering a fresh take on the future of spiritual and religious collaboration. It does not offer a grand theory, but rather a model for grassroots solutions that can inspire hope and collaboration in your immediate circle of family, friends, and community. What makes this book stand out is that it offers practical answers to the following three questions: (1) Should you choose to dedicate your life to mastering one tradition or should you retain the freedom to pick and choose from countless perspectives in the spiritual marketplace? (2) Should you pledge your allegiance to one spiritual group and thereby resolve your need to belong, or should you stay on an individual path of spirituality? (3) Is the world a display of countless points of view that are equal in value and importance, or do some spiritual views have more objective validity than others? The book does not offer one more promotion for pluralism and multiculturalism in spiritual contexts. These are important, but they are limited in their capacity to hold both diversity and depth. At the core of their philosophy lies a problematic assumption that prevents the expansion of our understanding of God and religion. The book offers a guide for spiritual projects that express the unique impulse of our time. If you sense the tectonic shifts underway in the geopolitical atmosphere around the world, if you discern how social media and the internet at large are contributing to epidemics of loneliness and isolation, and if you do not know what to do, then you are ready to start the difficult work of dialoguing with the unknown. From the book: "Despite the fact that you may not have a clear vision yet, you know that the solutions on offer today are at best limited and at worst toxic to our inner (and outer) ecologies. This knowing is the impulse. It is the heart of your authentic, timeless, quest to know yourself. It is alive and endlessly creative. It never gets stuck. It is the indestructible quest to make meaning out of your life as a person and as a part of humanity-to provide answers and keep alive the thirst for a living manifestation of reality (or what some call 'God')."

Download or read book Paperbound Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Morning Meditations Daily Reflections to Awaken Your Power to Change written by and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassuring and thought-provoking reflections for everyday reading. Even with the best intentions, it can be difficult to take time out of our busy days to reflect on our experiences, lean on the wisdom of others, and draw inspiration from the world around us. Filled with bite-sized passages that enlighten and stir contemplation, this pocket guide offers the perfect, thoughtful start to your day. Choose from over 150 reflections on themes ranging from relationships, change, self-awareness, and health, to problem solving, mindfulness, family, forgiveness, and more. Carefully compiled from books by leading helping professionals, the passages offer readers insight and comfort from the best therapists around. Thought-provoking questions for self-discovery follow each entry, providing a source of enlightenment and contemplation throughout the day. The end of the book offers a series of guided visualizations with scripted exercises for readers wanting more direction and engagement. Whether you are seeking connection, reassurance, or motivation for self-improvement, the welcoming, inspiring ideas in this book will help you get there