This Homeward Ache

Author : Amy Baik Lee
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1087776120
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Homeward Ache written by Amy Baik Lee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That sudden yearning you feel when you see a sunset. That pang of longing you sense deep in your bones when you attend a funeral or even gaze at a poignant piece of art. Those experiences that sting you to attention in moments of beauty, peace, or sorrow—the ones you can sense are offering you a twinkling, piercing hint of heaven: Are these meant to do more than point you to eternity? What if they could enable you to live more fully on the way there? Through personal reflections, evocative stories, and profound writing, author Amy Baik Lee offers This Homeward Ache, inviting you to remember the times you've been deeply moved by a glimpse, a spark, of something you know is beyond the visible present—moments that other cultures and times have called Sehnsucht, saudade, hiraeth, or galmang. In each spellbinding chapter, Amy traces her own brushes with this longing, unfolding her discovery that it is designed to enrich and alter every area of our lives: our valleys of pain, our relationships with other people, and ultimately our reception of the love of God. If you’ve ever wondered how to keep going in this world while holding on to the hope of the world to come, This Homeward Ache offers you courage, companionship, and a stirring sense of the scope of our journey home to Christ.

Author : Amy Baik Lee
Publisher : B&H Books
ISBN 13 : 9781087776118
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Homeward Ache written by Amy Baik Lee and published by B&H Books. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her debut trade book, thoughtful and profound writer Amy Baik Lee offers a spellbinding exploration of the moments we feel stirred toward heaven, helping us see that these moments are meant to do more than point us to eternity--they are meant to help us live more fully here and now.

Author : Patricia Williams
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1631522418
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book While They're Still Here written by Patricia Williams and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a lifetime of strained bonds with her aging parents, Patricia Williams finds herself in the unexpected position of being their caregiver and neighbor. As they all begin to navigate this murky battleground, the long-buried issues that have divided their family for decades—alcoholism, infidelity, opposing politics—rear up and demand to be addressed head-on. Williams answers the call of duty with trepidation at first, confronting the lines between service and servant, guardian and warden, while her parents alternately resist her help and wear her out. But by facing each new struggle with determination, grace, and courage, they ultimately emerge into a dynamic of greater transparency, mutual support, and teachable moments for all. Honest and humorous, graceful and grumbling, While They’re Still Here is a poignant story about a family that waves the white flag and begins to heal old wounds as they guide each other through the most vulnerable chapter of their lives.

Author : Bob Siqveland
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1478785896
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vicissitudes of Fortune written by Bob Siqveland and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five teenagers from diverse backgrounds are brought together by a war. A Japanese, a Jew, a Native American, an African American, and a white kid from middle-class America form an interdependent relationship in the jungles of Vietnam. They become the most highly decorated squad in a war they don’t understand, but their relationships transcend the social structures of racism formed through historical injustices, and they remain best friends for decades. Their iconic leader, Billy Stone, one day finds himself entangled with a Medicare scam dreamed up by his sister’s husband. For his sister’s sake, he must find a solution. The livelihoods of the others form within the law enforcement communities in their individual and collective quest for justice as they grow from boys to men of great character. Even the strongest of character has its flaws, but these men are the best of the best, and there is only one adversity they cannot overcome. From the Selma-to-Montgomery march, the internment camps of WWII, the poverty and desolation of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; to the estrangement of a father and son and a suicide of great consequence, this team of five becomes one. At the same time, there are “takers” like Billy’s brother-in-law who infect the American system. They need to be brought to justice, but the price will be high. On the smallest of scales, this is an epic tale of how the dream of a world community can become a reality.

Author : Gary Stephenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781098052065
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worn-Out Gloves written by Gary Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without first asking our permission, the rules of life have changed. Things once familiar and dependable have been replaced by anxiety and an uncertain "new normal." In the middle of the storm, you find that your relationship with God has changed as well. Your once solid foundation of faith begins to show cracks as doubt and fear creep in; and you begin to wonder if God truly loves you at all. Is God faithful? Is he merciful? Does he keep his promises? Why is God so patient when I want him to answer my requests now? How glorious will it be when discovering this was God's purposeful path that leads to contentment? In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps. (Proverbs 16:9) As a man coming into the prime of his remarkable career as a world-class golf course architect, Gary Stephenson's design for his work life was right where it should have been-multimillion-dollar projects on four continents, constant requests for new proposals, and associations with arguably the world's best golfer. But, in the blink of an eye, the financial crash of 2008 changed Gary's life forever. Worn-Out Gloves: A Journey to Contentment is a colorful and raw glimpse inside the mind of a man seeking to align God's purposes for his life with his own shattered dreams. The book, a series of short stories and events, explores Gary's learnings, humor, and hardships and the curation of a more meaningful, transparent faith and ultimate reliance on God and his promises.

Author : Bob Perdue
Publisher : Crosshouse Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781934749685
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 365 Days of Life written by Bob Perdue and published by Crosshouse Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staying in Charge of Your Choices We can't always control what life dishes out to us in the course of a year, but we can choose how we respond to those circumstances. In this book Pastor Bob Perdue delivers to the reader 365 days worth of choices that spring directly from the pages of God's Word. Pithy, poignant, personal devotional meditations are accompanied by Scripture truths as well as interactive thoughts designed to help the reader determine what choice toward life he or she will make each day. Bob shares from his sometimes-painful life pilgrimage in hopes of helping people pull back any layers that might hinder them from a closer walk with the Lord. With zany devotional titles such as "Choose Starbucks" and "Choose to Chill" alongside those such as "Choose Honesty" and "Choose Grace" readers will be entertained as well as challenged to take their choice-making to a deeper level.

Author : Elisabeth Elliot
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1535914165
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suffering Is Never for Nothing written by Elisabeth Elliot and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard times come for all in life, with no real explanation. When we walk through suffering, it has the potential to devastate and destroy, or to be the gateway to gratitude and joy. Elisabeth Elliot was no stranger to suffering. Her first husband, Jim, was murdered by the Waoroni people in Ecuador moments after he arrived in hopes of sharing the gospel. Her second husband was lost to cancer. Yet, it was in her deepest suffering that she learned the deepest lessons about God. Why doesn’t God do something about suffering? He has, He did, He is, and He will. Suffering and love are inexplicably linked, as God’s love for His people is evidenced in His sending Jesus to carry our sins, griefs, and sufferings on the cross, sacrificially taking what was not His on Himself so that we would not be required to carry it. He has walked the ultimate path of suffering, and He has won victory on our behalf. This truth led Elisabeth to say, “Whatever is in the cup that God is offering to me, whether it be pain and sorrow and suffering and grief along with the many more joys, I’m willing to take it because I trust Him.” Because suffering is never for nothing.

Author : DeAntwann Johnson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543462340
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sun Is Always Shining written by DeAntwann Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In life, we all have two choices: be the ominous cloud that people avoid and run from, or be the warm light that manages to peek through to be a guiding force for the world. That light reveals lifes infinite possibilities and assures them that no matter what, The Sun Is Always Shining. Escaping the darkness is no easy feat. It takes every bit of courage one can muster upthrough faith. DeAntwann Johnson takes us on a riveting, fact-based journey about Jeremy Deon Allen, a youth whose childhood, rampant with abandonment, rejection, abuse, instability, and the perils of the child welfare system, threatens to push him into a life of crime, years in prisonand possibly an early death. Learn how Jeremy harnessed all of his painful events and lessons, climbed out of the darkness, and chose to shine. By embracing a life upheld with strong Christian values, and making a conscious decision to tear down the wall of constraint that endangered his future, he stepped into a life of victory, purpose, and service. See how Jeremys story encourages youth, whose worlds are rife with chaos, to bravely weather their storms, seek the sun in their hearts, and win in their lives.

Author : Susan Gubar
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393609588
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late-Life Love: A Memoir written by Susan Gubar and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Winning [and] intelligent. . . . [An] impressive, often heartening addition to the literature of aging.” — Heller McAlpin, Wall Street Journal In this “unique blend of memoir and literary commentary” (Bookpage), acclaimed author and literary scholar Susan Gubar contemplates the beauty and strength of enduring love—both for her husband and for the literature that has shaped her life. Throughout the complications of devoted caregiving, her own ongoing cancer treatments, and a stressful move to a more manageable apartment, Gubar proves that love and desire have no expiration date—on the page or in life. Late-Life Love offers a resounding retort to ageist stereotypes, appraises the obstacles unique to senior couples, and celebrates second chances.

Author : Daniel Baxter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510735771
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Life at a Time written by Daniel Baxter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dr. Daniel Baxter arrived in Botswana in 2002, he was confident of the purity of his mission to help people with AIDS, armed with what he thought were immutable truths about life—and himself—that had been forged on his AIDS ward in New York City ten years earlier. But Baxter’s good intentions were quickly overwhelmed by the reality of AIDS in Africa, his misguided altruism engulfed by the sea of need around him. Lifted up by Botswana’s remarkable and forgiving people, Baxter soldiered on, his memorable encounters with those living with AIDS, and their unfathomable woes assuaged by their oft-repeated “But God is good,” profoundly changing the way he thought about his role as a doctor. Now, after caring for innumerable AIDS patients for eight years in Botswana, Baxter has written an urgent, quietly philosophical account of his journey into the early twenty-first century’s new heart of darkness: AIDS in Africa, where legions desperately struggled to be among the spared and not the doomed. Part memoir, part travelogue, part chronicle of the zaniness of Botswana (one of the questions on his driver’s license application was “Are you or have you ever been an imbecile?”), and part witness to suffering unknown to most Americans, his testimony is an unforgettable tribute to the many people he cared for. Join Baxter on his life-changing journey in Botswana, as he recounts the stories of people like Ralph, a deteriorating AIDS and cancer patient who nonetheless always wore a smile, or Precious, a woman found sick and abandoned in the capital’s slum, or “No Fear,” a rude man in Baxter’s gym whose descent he halted. After many years on the front lines of the African pandemic, Baxter realized that “one life at a time” was the only way to fight AIDS.