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"Girlhood, Pretty Is not Enough" teaches and encourages teen girls and young women to live a Godly life even though we live in a culture that lays so much value on outer beauty. The author whose life experiences she wants to share with young women as encouragement. The message is to help young women connect with the experiences of the writer. For so long the world has dictated to girls what beauty is, but it is time to change the narratives by showing them who they are, who God says they are, and what God says they are. And that their identity is rooted in Christ alone.Most especially, this book is to encourage and challenge young women to be unapologetic in their faith. I love to invest and pour into young women because it is easier catching them young, which is the same as fetching water upstream before it gets contaminated downstream. The world is slowly but surely imposing on young women that they are valuable and pretty only if they are popular and physically attractive. Physical attributes have nothing to do with one's value, but our identity in Christ is what matters. Your weaknesses and physical flaws opportunities to glorify your creator God. "Girlhood, Pretty is not Enough" is most especially for my younger sisters coming up behind me. I love to invest in young women who are promising and responsible to understand what walking in divine obedience is. My prayer is that every single word in this book falls on fertile ground. This book is a curriculum and Advice I would give my teenage self and my early-twenties self. Most importantly this book is intended to:lead young women to ChristUnderstand the true definition of beautyDiscover life's purpose and guidelines to live life intentionallyHelping young women discover their uniqueness in Christ, using positive examples of bible women characters.
After the disaster at the end of Part 1, life for Nemroz became very different. This is the story of him trying to be a family man.
Max has a very special power. He has the power to make someone's day a little better. He gives a tired, thirsty postman a break, he makes a new student feel welcome in his school, and he returns a wallet to an old man at the grocery store. Read more about how he makes every day a little brighter in Max, the Day-Maker.i
Escape, Leave Your Burdens Behind and Live with Christ is a book that was inspired by a women's retreat at her church, St. James United Methodist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. This is the second book that Christianne has written based on scripture and words spoken to her by the Holy Spirit. Her first book, The Heart of the Matter, was published in 2007.
Welcome Home : A Dance Through All Eternity is an enlightening book that answers question of life itself. Being created in the image of God is more than simply the ability to have a relationship with one's creator or the physiological concept of the assigning of body, soul, and spirit, but the very essence of one's life and purpose. In the book the author invites readers to step onto the stage, discover the dancers"e; and fully participate in the dance. By entering the dance one can truly find their way home.
This book describes the life experience of the author, from three years old to his retirement at 66 years old. He was called the $240 Million Professor by Transpacific Magazine. In his youth. he had suffered from Japanese invasion of China. While his father was fighting the Japanese in the front, he and his mother had to move from one province to the other, in order to escape the invading Japanese. In the meantime, lots of moving and frightening events had occurred. After WWII, they escaped to Taiwan when Communists took over the mainland. He went to college and obtained a degree. During the military training, he had invented three small weapon control system. After he proofed they worked, he was awarded a medal by then President Chiang Kai-Shek. After he served in the military, he got married and decided to go to the United States for an advanced degree. When he arrived in the U.S.A., he had only $30 in his pocket. Through working as a TV repairman, he graduated with a master's degree. He found a teaching job and brought his wife and children over. He then went on for his doctor's degree. Upon completing his Ph.D. in 1971, he started to build Computer Science department for colleges and universities in this nation. In 1979 he was promoted to eminent professorship. In 1985, he quit his professorship and dipped into running a business. After six years in business, he fought and won the largest contract the federal government had awarded to a small business in 1991. A magazine called him the $240 Million Professor. He was awarded in the White House by President Bush senior in 1991. In 1992 he was sent by President Bush to China as a member in the First commercial delegation of this country. In this book, the author described his personal encounters, feelings, other interesting events and there was no dull moment.
Enlightenment! Enlightenment! Enlightenment! I wantenlightenment! Buddhism's Nirvana failed to stop the fires ofwickedness in my world! The Catholic Church's Beatificationdoctrine failed to give me a loving relationship with my God andneighbors! Humanists' Age of Reason has become irrational! Is thisthe utopia they are promising me? Help! Darkness is warring againstenlightenment! Is there no light in my darkness?Do not despair! Come alive to life! Keep your fires burning,your mind churning and your heart yearning. The enlightenmentin this book is enlightening! Come on in! Take your journey toSanctification and Wholeness. Claim your 100% guarantee ofeverlasting enlightenment now!
Norma Jean Campanaro is a true renaissance woman living in Washington State and Hilo, Hawaii. She's a poet, a painter, and a modern-day philosopher. Her poetry is as insightful as it is honest. It provides an insight into her approach to life: live actively, laugh often, and love always. Her paintings offer a glimpse into how the world looks through the eyes: full of vibrant colors and infinite possibilities.
Chukcha the Mountain Monkey, a true story, reflects an adventurous bond of a very young, wild monkey with people found in the mountainous area of beautiful Ethiopia in Africa.Since author's childhood, a love for pets was a part of her day to day life of her multihome pets' background with their responsibilities, care, and admiration. The only pet seemed to be missing from her array of "e;pet collection"e; turned out to be a monkey that she happened to obtain only in a tropical climate while she moved and lived there with her family of three for quite some time. Now stories to share withchildren, pet lovers, and anyone else in this beautiful world.Some parts of these stories have been passed to groups of little people, and as a result they showed vivid interest in when they are going to see the printed book with its illustrations. Charlotte, 4, asked and the rest of the kids too "e;Would you bring to us the book?"e; and then added, "e;Is Chukcha still alive, the Red Hen and Ellusha, the tortoise? I wish Chukcha and all the pets in the world to live forever."e;
As the title refers, this is a story about a living Christmas tree named Jasper. In the beginning, Jasper himself explains how he came to be from seed to sprout at his birthplace at Christy Farms. It is there that he makes friends with his growing tray mates and a large orange orb known as a pumpkin named Oscar.Jasper was a slow grower and known as the runt of the crop and had received grief for it. Over time he and one of his tray mates grew to be two of the largest trees at Christy Farms, his fellow tray mate, and Oscar the Pumpkin win a local grow-off competition, which in turn sends them to the state fair. At the state fair, Jasper is bought at an auction by a casino mogul, and he is shipped to Las Vegas, where he experiences the life of being an official Christy Christmas tree.Through the days leading to Christmas, life was grand. Lots of attention was given to Jasper. On Christmas Eve late at night, Jasper makes friends with a special guy in a red suit that recognizes Jasper as a Christy tree. Jaspers newfound late-night friend promises Jasper a belated Christmas gift for an act of kindness Jasper had shown.After Christmas, the situation goes downhill for poor Jasper now that his job is finished, and life as he knows it seems grim. Read to see how Jasper's life turns out being a past tree of Christmas.
Seeking to be a leader is an honorable ambition and a noble duty(1Timothy 3:1). However; to lead requires wisdom, discernment,understanding, knowledge, counsel and delight in the LORD. KingSolomon realized the need for godly wisdom for leadership despite hisphysical attributes and family heritage when he asked God for wisdom,knowledge and discerning heart to lead the nation of Israel (1 Kings 3:7-9;2 Chronicles 1:10-12). Leadership wisdom deals with the special keys,insights and inspiration for leading wisely, morally, courageously andcompassionately. Leadership wisdom teaches the secrets for authentic andeffective leadership, which is my cry and call for leaders of today.
Sometimes anxiety overwhelms us. If we are to deal with it successfully, it's important to develop some understanding of what it is and how it affects us. Moreover, we need to discover and experience the power to control it.Without discounting popular methods of dealing with our anxiety such as psychotherapy, drugs, group therapy, etc., the author explores what he considers to be one of the most powerful weapons, namely, faith. But this is not faith de ned as institutional religious faith such as being a good Roman Catholic or Presbyterian, but faith as an experience of yielding oneself in radical trust to a power beyond ourselves whose love and strength combine to become a potent force in showing us how to be free and empowering us upon freedom's journey.Anxiety Yields to Faith invites you to join an adventure which may turn out to be one of the most important, life-enhancing journeys you have ever taken.
Get ready to raise some cain!Raised on a sugar cane plantation author Barry Raffray recalls in this rollicking-yet-insightful memoir his upbringing, family's ancestry, and lessons learned as a boy in South Louisiana. Barry Franklin Anthony Raffray takes us on a colorful tour of the plantation known as Cedar Grove in White Castle, La., giving us several glimpses of daily life from childhood through his joining the U.S. Army after graduation from White Castle High School in 1962. These pages are bursting with lively stories written casually and in first person - except for a few memorable tales handed down by loving family members. Far from a mere autobiography or historical sketch, you'll feel a special kinship with Barry after each read as he shares his favorite life experience with you!
Everyone's gathered near Henry's pigsty with hopes to see Santa ride his sleigh through the sky. The night was like magic for everyone there until Scottie the Skunk left his scent in the air. But the spirit of Christmas was upbeat and strong and it changed all our hearts so we all got along. Written in rhyme, author Mark Albini tells the story of what happened to Bobo the Mouse and his Rescue Ranch Family on Christmas Eve.
This book focuses on the life, adventures, tragedies and the plight of one teenager growing up in Beverly Hills during the early 70's drug atmosphere and lifestyle. Book I, is about one teenager's courage and willpower to overcome enormous obstacles in her life, amongst a death sentence from the fledgling Neurological profession in that era. The book also takes a look at the young psychiatric system and it's neophyte facilities; it also explains the archaic use of these facilities available at that time. Life in Beverly Hills during the 60's and 70's could truly be called "surviving "Beverly Hills". Regardless of money or power during the era of freedom, "rock and roll", sex and the "Hippy" mentality still affects generation's to this day. Even saying that you grew up in Beverly Hills still carries a heavy stigma today.
"The Pastor's Poems" were written to minister to people. They were sometimes written to the pastor himself in silent meditation, and other times written to a couple at the altar of marriage to help them prepare for life's adventre together. When written in poetry, the wedding sermon becomes more than a formality with a joke or two, and that is all that is remembered. The wedding sermon in poetic form becomes a treasured remembrance framed for a daily reminder in the home. Other poems help Scripture come alive for today. All these poems were written in the course of ministry. The reader will be encouraged, comforted, or stimulated to think about life and God.
This book is about the two completely different lives I lived, growing up in the hood and then my life after the hood, the thug and the gentleman. The hood was a dark place where drug addicts and drug dealers controlled the streets. Growing up in the hood as a kid was all about surviving. Many times I wondered where my next meal was going to come from. I began fighting at a young age, at least once a month. Candles and matches was a life line considering how often our lights went out. This was my life and I figured it would be my life to the end. This book is my journey thru the hood and my success outside of it. It's how three books inspired me to leave the hood and change my life! For most of my life, I wouldn't read a book from front to back. My friend begged me to read my first book at the age of 27 and at that point my life changed dramatically. At that time I realized that I had access to all the information I needed to become better in life. But although the hood is a dark place, it equipped me with a hustle and a desire to survive that's unmatchable. The books inspired an educated gentleman, the hood breed an unstoppable thug, both together created a business man that came from nothing to building a million dollar company.
This story is based on the true to life story of T-MAC who witnessed life as a teenager during the times of the 1980's. During the peak of gang violence in the 80's along with the deadly drive by shootings in South Central Los Angeles you will experience what it feels like to be a young adult that was falsely accused and beat 3 attempted murder cases and was fully vindicated of all charges. T-MAC was an outstanding all around athlete which excelled at all sports such as football, basketball, baseball, track and field. T-MAC has broken many records that are still on the book but his success came with a price. T-MAC's family was Jehovah Witness and was often at the same kingdom hall as Michael Jackson and just as Michael Jackson had to choose the approval of his religion over his art and music so did T-MAC. He was forced to decline the opportunity to carry the flag for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles because of his religion which was the same choice Michael Jackson had to make in order to make his classic "THRILLER". T-MAC went on to continue his quest to succeed in sports by becoming one the many head coaches for the 87 Special Olympics. He also was involved in the formation of Camp Bloomfield foundation for the junior blind and Special Olympics. Throughout all of his adversity T-MAC's spirit was never broken as his mentor was one of the original bodyguard for Eazy E and Ruthless Records in which he was apart of but that is the story for the next book.
This book explores the root causes of stress. It offers solutions and alternativeswithout resorting to meditation. It discusses multi-faceted aspects of stress:physical, emotional, and spiritual. It examines stressors found in child andparental relationships, societal stress and suicides. There is increased stress in theworkplace and greater sleep deprivation. It also focuses on food choices and how allergicsensitivities play a part in the development of stress, as well as the role that GMOs,pollution, soil depletion, the EPA, and toxins play in the development of stress.This book offers a way to rate your own stress numerically based on work and lifestyle.It suggests drug-free solutions using herbs and/or homeopathic remedies as life stylechanges from meditation to mindfulness.
When author Nalini Juthani immigrated from India to the United States, her goal was to get a higher education and travel the world. She has fulfilled her dreams and enhanced her life by creating such travel experiences. In this memoir, The Diary of the Roads I have Been On: Embracing the World's Charm, she shares the stories of enrichingtravel experiences that have inspired her. These essays, with photographs included, provide a glimpse of her travels through all seven continents of the world starting from within India. The Diary of the Roads I have Been On: Embracing the World's Charm narrates her experiences of journeys with her husband, children, friends, and as a lone traveler. Juthani describes meeting and bonding with new people, making meaningful relationships, learning about other cultures, capturing and preserving memories through photography, and learning about the history and evolution of each place. Inspiring and touching, the essays describe the influence Juthani had on the lives of people she met while overcoming cultural barriers and dietary restrictions as a vegetarian. Through her travels, she explored and learned a great deal about what was home and what feeling like a foreigner means in both lands.
Long ago, in a far off land, the people had temples to many gods. One was to a fertility god called Farago. It was run by a High Priest and his priesthood. They were all donated to the priesthood when they were babies. The story tells of a disaster that destroyed the temple and completely changed the lives of the priests who survived.
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