A Clearing Season

Author : Sarah Parsons
Publisher : Upper Room Books
ISBN 13 : 0835812618
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Clearing Season written by Sarah Parsons and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities across the world celebrate Mardi Gras with colorful parades and over-the-top parties. Then Ash Wednesday arrives … Sigh. Lent has begun. You hear about devout friends giving up seemingly innocent things like chocolate or stressing out as they try to live a more perfect life during six grueling weeks—for reasons you don't completely understand. Sermons about penitence are preached, and guilt soaks the congregation. Sound like a good time?! It's time to rethink Lent. Or at least see it for the positive opportunity it offers. It's spring cleaning for the soul! Lent offers you time to pause, consider, and renew your relationship with God—an altogether hopeful (not dreary) experience. "To arrive at newness of life, we first name parts of our lives that are shrouded in darkness," writes Parsons. "To put it very dramatically,… your first order of business is to break your heart for God. We walk through some muck so that we can leave it behind and find Easter joy beyond…. With God's help we will clear the darkness away and begin to experience greater joy and newness of life." Sure, there's work to be done during Lent, but it's the gentle, gradual work of opening one's heart and mind to grace. A Clearing Season will move you week by week from "wilderness to holy ground," using a personal tone that will stir and challenge personal reflection. Parsons includes exercises for small groups, as well as questions at the end of each chapter for individual reflection. Also included is an appendix of spiritual practices for Lent. This Lent, clear away the obstacles that block you from God, and experience spiritual renewal.

Author : Alisa Vernon
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1410742717
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clearing Season written by Alisa Vernon and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Revkin
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781559630894
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning Season written by Andrew Revkin and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the rain forests of the western Amazon," writes author Andrew Revkin, "the threat of violent death hangs in the air like mist after a tropical rain. It is simply a part of the ecosystem, just like the scorpions and snakes cached in the leafy canopy that floats over the forest floor like a seamless green circus tent." Violent death came to Chico Mendes in the Amazon rain forest on December 22, 1988. A labor and environmental activist, Mendes was gunned down by powerful ranchers for organizing resistance to the wholesale burning of the forest. He was a target because he had convinced the government to take back land ranchers had stolen at gunpoint or through graft and then to transform it into "extractive reserves," set aside for the sustainable production of rubber, nuts, and other goods harvested from the living forest. This was not just a local land battle on a remote frontier. Mendes had invented a kind of reverse globalization, creating alliances between his grassroots campaign and the global environmental movement. Some 500 similar killings had gone unprosecuted, but this case would be different. Under international pressure, for the first time Brazilian officials were forced to seek, capture, and try not only an Amazon gunman but the person who ordered the killing. In this reissue of the environmental classic The Burning Season, with a new introduction by the author, Andrew Revkin artfully interweaves the moving story of Mendes's struggle with the broader natural and human history of the world's largest tropical rain forest. "It became clear," writes Revkin, acclaimed science reporter for The New York Times, "that the murder was a microcosm of the larger crime: the unbridled destruction of the last great reservoir of biological diversity on Earth." In his life and untimely death, Mendes forever altered the course of development in the Amazon, and he has since become a model for environmental campaigners everywhere.

Author : Gail Gaymer Martin
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0369717228
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Upon a Midnight Clear and Season of Joy written by Gail Gaymer Martin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family for Christmas Upon a Midnight Clear by Gail Gaymer Martin Nurse Callie Randolph feels a special connection to troubled child Nattie Hamilton. And after years of heartbreak, Callie is falling in love—with Nattie’s handsome father, David. It all seems perfect—a beautiful little girl who adores her and a kind man who challenges her heart. But does Callie have the strength to test her courage and tell David everything? Yuletide Abduction by Virginia Carmichael As the holiday season approaches, Calista Sheffield volunteers at a downtown Denver shelter, never expecting that her own heart will find healing. The mission’s director, handsome Grant Monohan, has devoted his life to helping those in need. But he’s wary of the wealthy CEO. Unless she shares her painful history, he’ll never believe they can have a future together. And that’s the only Christmas gift Calista truly wants.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Author : United States. Philippine Commission, 1900-1916
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8K/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War written by United States. Philippine Commission, 1900-1916 and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York State College of Agriculture. Extension Service
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cornell Extension Bulletin written by New York State College of Agriculture. Extension Service and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Fisherman written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephenson Training And Agricultural School
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin written by Stephenson Training And Agricultural School and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1532 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: