Download or read book Tattoos on the Heart written by Greg Boyle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you fight despair and learn to meet the world with a loving heart? How do you overcome shame? Stay faithful in spite of failure? No matter where people live or what their circumstances may be, everyone needs boundless, restorative love. Gorgeous and uplifting, Tattoos on the Heart amply demonstrates the impact unconditional love can have on your life. As a pastor working in a neighborhood with the highest concentration of murderous gang activity in Los Angeles, Gregory Boyle created an organization to provide jobs, job training, and encouragement so that young people could work together and learn the mutual respect that comes from collaboration. Tattoos on the Heart is a breathtaking series of parables distilled from his twenty years in the barrio. Arranged by theme and filled with sparkling humor and glowing generosity, these essays offer a stirring look at how full our lives could be if we could find the joy in loving others and in being loved unconditionally. From giant, tattooed Cesar, shopping at JCPenney fresh out of prison, we learn how to feel worthy of God’s love. From ten-year-old Lula we learn the importance of being known and acknowledged. From Pedro we understand the kind of patience necessary to rescue someone from the darkness. In each chapter we benefit from Boyle’s wonderful, hard-earned wisdom. Inspired by faith but applicable to anyone trying to be good, these personal, unflinching stories are full of surprising revelations and observations of the community in which Boyle works and of the many lives he has helped save. Erudite, down-to-earth, and utterly heartening, these essays about universal kinship and redemption are moving examples of the power of unconditional love in difficult times and the importance of fighting despair. With Gregory Boyle’s guidance, we can recognize our own wounds in the broken lives and daunting struggles of the men and women in these parables and learn to find joy in all of the people around us. Tattoos on the Heart reminds us that no life is less valuable than another.
Download or read book El Yakusa De Mi Coraz n written by Marnie Forestieri and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tokio, 1995. Una joven colombiana se convierte en vctima de una organizacin de trata de blancas. Un miembro de la mafia Japonesa pone a prueba su cdigo de honor. Y un sentimiento inesperado nace para revelar la esencia de cada uno. Una novela emocionante que devela los enigmas y rituales de una de las organizaciones de crimen organizado ms poderosas del mundo, La Yakusa y recorre las calles oscuras de Tokio para descubrir la vida de las mujeres dedicadas a la profesin ms antigua del mundo. Basada en una historia real, El Yakusa de mi Corazn nos recuerda que el bien se puede encontrar en las circunstancias ms hostiles.
Download or read book 70 Latidos Del Coraz n written by Jos Ngel Arellano D. Az and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 70 latidos del corazón Es un libro de poesías donde se expresan emociones, sentimientos y fantasías que quizá cualquier ser humano experimente. Son vivencias convertidas en letras convertidas en poesía, son 70 latidos de un corazón. Es amor y desamor, es solo una forma mas de expresión donde esperemos te encuentres identificado. 70 latidos del corazón es un libro donde expreso mis ideas locas, es mi primer proyecto terminado. Espero les guste.
Download or read book Barking to the Choir written by Gregory Boyle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a moving example of unconditional love in difficult times, Gregory Boyle, the Jesuit priest and New York Times bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart, shares what working with gang members in Los Angeles has taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring power of kinship. In his first book, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, Gregory Boyle introduced us to Homeboy Industries, the largest gang-intervention program in the world. Critics hailed that book as an “astounding literary and spiritual feat” (Publishers Weekly) that is “destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality” (Los Angeles Times). Now, after the successful expansion of Homeboy Industries, Boyle returns with Barking to the Choir to reveal how compassion is transforming the lives of gang members. In a nation deeply divided and plagued by poverty and violence, Barking to the Choir offers a snapshot into the challenges and joys of life on the margins. Sergio, arrested at age nine, in a gang by age twelve, and serving time shortly thereafter, now works with the substance-abuse team at Homeboy to help others find sobriety. Jamal, abandoned by his family when he tried to attend school at age seven, gradually finds forgiveness for his schizophrenic mother. New father Cuco, who never knew his own dad, thinks of a daily adventure on which to take his four-year-old son. These former gang members uplift the soul and reveal how bright life can be when filled with unconditional love and kindness. This book is guaranteed to shake up our ideas about God and about people with a glimpse at a world defined by more compassion and fewer barriers. Gently and humorously, Barking to the Choir invites us to find kinship with one another and re-convinces us all of our own goodness.
Download or read book Shades of Gray written by Bill Gray and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHADES OF GRAY-INTO THE LIGHT is a journey. A collection of stories told in poetic verse and prose of the layers of the human spirit. Stories of life and love and joys and sorrows chronicled by dates in random order taken from events in life. Stories of fact and fiction beginning in DARKSHADES before migrating through the MEDIUMSHADES of life into the eventuality of LIGHTSHADES where hope alwayssprings eternalwhen willing souls refuse to give into anything less than they deserve. SHADES of GRAY-INTO THE LIGHT is a story of change! A story of facing challenges head on that we sometimescreate ourselves as life hands them to usallowing us to make the choices that dictate where our lives willgo. We stand on the threshfold of change where hopes rewards are but a few steps away as long as we dare to dream!
Download or read book The Whole Language written by Gregory Boyle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved Jesuit priest and author of the inspirational bestsellers Tattoos on the Heart and Barking to the Choir returns with a call to witness the transformative power of tenderness, rooted in his lifetime of experience counseling gang members in Los Angeles. Over the past thirty years, Gregory Boyle has transformed thousands of lives through his work as the founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest and most successful gang-intervention program in the world. Now, following his acclaimed bestsellers Tattoos on the Heart, “destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality” (Los Angeles Times), and Barking to the Choir, deemed “a beautiful and important and soul-transporting book” by Elizabeth Gilbert comes The Whole Language, a book that “filled my cup with hope” (The Jesuit Review). In a community struggling to overcome systemic poverty and violence, The Whole Language shows how those at Homeboy Industries fight despair and remain generous, hopeful, and tender. When Saul was thirteen years old, he killed his abusive stepfather in self-defense; after spending twenty-three years in juvenile and adult jail, he enters the Homeboy Industries training and healing programs and embraces their mission. Declaring, “I’ve decided to grow up to be somebody I always needed as a child,” Saul shows tenderness toward the young men in his former shoes, treating them all like his sons and helping them to find their way. Before coming to Homeboy Industries, a young man named Abel was shot thirty-three times, landing him in a coma for six months followed by a year and a half recuperating in the hospital. He now travels on speaking tours with Boyle and gives guided tours around the Homeboy offices. One day a new trainee joins Abel as a shadow, and Abel recognizes him as the young man who had put him in a coma. “You give good tours,” the trainee tells Abel. They both have embarked on a path to wholeness. Boyle’s moving stories challenge our ideas about God and about people, providing a window into a world filled with fellowship, compassion, and fewer barriers. Bursting with encouragement, humor, and hope, The Whole Language invites us to treat others—and ourselves—with acceptance and tenderness.
Download or read book Only the Road Solo el Camino written by Margaret Randall and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership. It is distinguished by its stylistic breadth and the diversity of its contributors, who come from throughout Cuba and its diaspora and include luminaries, lesser-known voices, and several Afro-Cuban and LGBTQ poets. Nearly half of the poets in the collection are women. Only the Road paints a full and dynamic picture of modern Cuban life and poetry, highlighting their unique features and idiosyncrasies, the changes across generations, and the ebbs and flows between repression and freedom following the Revolution. Poet Margaret Randall, who translated each poem, contributes extensive biographical notes for each poet and a historical introduction to twentieth-century Cuban poetry.
Download or read book Customizing the Body written by Clinton Sanders and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tattoos as art, work, decoration and defiance.
Download or read book Until Tuesday written by Luis Carlos Montalvan and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming dog story like no other: Tuesday, a lovable golden retriever, changes a former soldier’s life forever. A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis Montalván never backed down from a challenge during his two tours of duty in Iraq. After returning home from combat, however, his physical wounds and crippling post-traumatic stress disorder began to take their toll. He wondered if he would ever recover. Then Luis met Tuesday, a sensitive golden retriever trained to assist people with disabilities. Tuesday had lived among prisoners and at a home for troubled boys, and he found it difficult to trust in or connect with a human being–until Luis. Until Tuesday is the story of how two wounded warriors, who had given so much and suffered the consequences, found salvation in each other. It is a story about war and peace, injury and recovery, psychological wounds and spiritual restoration. But more than that, it is a story about the love between a man and dog, and how, together, they healed each other’s souls.
Download or read book Alice in Wonderland Tattoos written by Lewis Carroll and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 2003-03-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four splendidly rendered designs in glorious color recapture the charm of illustrator John Tenniel's original images of Wonderland. These temporary tattoos feature the White Rabbit; the Mad Hatter and one of his teatime companions, the Dormouse; Alice, arm-in-arm with the Duchess; and the Cheshire Cat in full grin.
Download or read book Sangre de campe n EN PIE DE GUERRA written by CARLOS CUAUHTÉMOC SÁNCHEZ and published by Ediciones Selectas Diamante SA de CV. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las drogas están por todos lados. Cada vez hay más variedad y presentaciones; también los vendedores son más creativos para enganchar a los jóvenes. Este libro es una fuente de información indispensable. El lector se “beberá” sus páginas con avidez. De principio a fin quedará atrapado con la historia de los personajes e impactado por los efectos que causan drogas actuales como GHB, rohipnol, éxtasis, PCP, efedrina, ketamina, crack, LSD, cannabis y muchas otras, incluyendo el alcohol. LA DROGA es el principal enemigo social, pero lo es más la ignorancia y la creencia de que lo sabemos todo al respecto. Ha llegado el momento de informarnos, de entender que estamos en guerra y no podemos darnos el lujo de descuidarnos. Seguramente nunca antes has tenido en las manos un libro sobre las drogas tan interesante y útil como éste. Aprovéchalo y compártelo.
Download or read book Los Demonios de Mi Ngel written by Bee Queen and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESTA ES UNA HISTORIA QUE COMBINA LA REALIDAD CON LOS SUENOS DE LAS PROTAGONISTAS Y A TRAVES DE LA CUAL SE PERMITE AL LECTOR CONOCER Y APRENDER SITUACIONES FISICAS, EMOCIONALES Y CONDUCTUALES POR LAS QUE ATRAVIESAN PERSONAS QUE SUFREN DE VIOLACION NOS PERMITE ADENTRARNOS UN POCO EN EL SENTIMIENTO MAS PROFUNDO DEL CORAZON Y DEL ALMA DE TODOS LOS AFECTADOS POR ESTE TIPO DE TRAUMAS; LOS SENTIMIENTOS Y PESADILLAS EN LAS QUE SE VEN INMERSOS; LAS AFECCIONES DE TODA INDOLE Y LA MANERA DE ENCONTRAR ESA PUERTA " CASI INVISIBLE " PERO EXISTENTE; A TRAVES DE LA CUAL PODEMOS ENCONTRAR UNA SALIDA E INICIAR CON NUESTRA PROPIA RENOVACION "
Download or read book Sailor Jerry Tattoo Flash written by Norman Collins and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Los que pintan la aldea written by Susana Chas and published by Eduvim. This book was released on 2011 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro es parte de la colección e-Libro en BiblioBoard.
Download or read book Beautifully Damaged written by L. A. Fiore and published by Montlake Romance. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ember Walsh is a trusting soul with the quiet beauty of her late mother, who perished in a mysterious car crash when Ember was three. A little tomboyish from being raised by her father, Ember packs a punch when a stranger gets pushy with her in a bar, catching the steely blue eyes of a tall, gorgeous tattooed man--Trace Montgomery. Still damaged from her last disastrous relationship and warned off the bad boy by friends, Ember fights the smoldering heat that Trace sparks in her when he begins shadowing her like a dark angel. Burdened by a lifetime of horror and heartbreak, amateur fighter Trace doesn't want to want Ember. His deep self-loathing keeps him from having any meaningful relationships, but Ember is an itch he can't scratch. The two push and pull, slowly crumbling their walls, seemingly brought together by fate, because the turmoil that haunts their pasts is interlinked in undeniable ways. But can these two fighters finally lay down their arms? In Beautifully Damaged, L.A. Fiore delves into deep scars and lets love and forgiveness uncover redemption. Revised edition: This edition of Beautifully Damaged includes editorial revisions and new scenes.
Download or read book EL AYER DE HOY written by AndrA(c)s Medrano and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El ayer de hoy es la vida de dos seres que en su debido tiempo creyeron haber encontrado el amor de sus vidas. Quizas fue amor a primera vista o quizas fue el destino quien los puso en el mismo camino de la vida y ambos sin saberlo vivieron un idilio que tambien seria el destino el que se encargaria de ponerlos frente a frente con lo inesperado. Es el amor de Alejandro y de Erin, un amor simple, pero profundo, un amor que a pesar del tiempo y las circunstancias no conocio el final. Sin embargo, las condiciones en la cuales ese amor crecio fueron mas que complicadas. Alejandro y Erin nunca perdieron la fe en ese amor, pero la vida les determino caminos alternos. ?Es que acaso fue un verdadero amor, o fue tan solo un espejismo de amor? No hay ninguna duda de que aquel amor que florecio en un secreto que ambos decidieron mantener tambien fue ese mismo secreto que quizas lo llevo a lo imprevisto. Nunca hubo un verdadero adios. El adios nunca se dio porque simplemente ambos nunca creyeron en ese adios. Ambos se habian jurado un amor para toda la vida, eso fue para Alejandro y para Erin el amor de ayer y el amor de hoy, el hacer mantener vivo lo que siempre ellos creyeron, un amor sin final.
Download or read book My Alien Valentine written by Lashe' Lacroix and published by Millennial Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handsome alien and a feisty female running from her past. In addition, a criminal mastermind is bent on revenge. Can two broken souls reconnect and trust again or on Valentines’ Day will their past be the death of them? Phoebe Faulknen Phoebe’s life is turned upside down when she loses her mother. Just when she thinks things couldn’t get worse, she returns home to discover her fiancé having sex with a man in her bedroom. The betrayal devastates her. She relocates to another planet where she is thrust in the middle of a conspiracy to kill the king of Zucury. Around every corner, enemies lurk in the shadows. Will Phoebe learn to trust her instincts and accept Jado’s help, or will she end up collateral damage? Jado Carddon After the death of his wife, Prince Jado Carddon has been doing his best to raise his son when he meets Phoebe. She has awakened something deep within him that he thought had died long ago. His life becomes more complicated when the goddess reveals to him that Phoebe is his fated mate. Prince Jado has to choose between his desire for revenge and the need for his fated mate. If he can’t convince her to trust him, history will repeat itself and he will lose another mate. When king Carddon is murdered by an intergalactic assassin, the prince’s life changes drastically. He burns with the desire of his blood right to seek revenge for his father’s death. At one time, he thought that he had lost everything, but this time, he might also lose his life.
