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"When we can't see what God is doing in us, it is usually because we can't see past what we are trying to do for ourselves." Tormented by a childhood of which he has almost no memories, author W. R. Bennett strives toward a meaningful purpose in his life by attempting to align his strong will with God's will. By supplementing his poor memory with years of writing poetry and exploring detailed notes from his running records, Bennett is finally able to decipher the reason for his insatiable hunger and addictive nature. He first recognizes his own behavior in the actions of his youngest grandson, but is clueless to its meaning until he begins a two-year writing odyssey. Slowly, he sees beyond the foolishness of his ways, hidden during fifty years as an addict in the prayer closet. When he finally steps into the light, Bennett can see the remarkable treasures from God previously obscured by his own shadow.
Today there are approximately seventy-six million Americans who were born in the years from 1946 to 1965-the baby boomers. In their youth they thrived, voting for a number of entitlements based on assumptions of economic growth that no longer applies. Now, as baby boomers continue aging, they must face a number of potentially disheartening realities. From caring for ailing parents to funding their retirement to facing death, many issues weigh too heavily upon the minds of the baby boomer generation to allow for a peaceful, productive second half of life. What's more, many of the spiritual belief systems passed down for so many generations no longer provide the comfort or support people need in order to face the challenges of the later half of life. The people need something new. In this second edition of Baby Boomer Lamentations, author and self-proclaimed religious philosopher Lewis Tagliaferre explores the concept of Theofatalism and addresses the rising spiritual concerns of the baby boomers, offering a new outlook to help readers make the inevitable transitions through the later years of life.
"Beyond Homo Sapiens Enlightened Faith, " is the last book of the "Beyond Homo Sapiens" trilogy. It concludes the series mystical/political review of the historical events of the last 5,000 years with the struggle of progressive thinkers and activists to help people recognize their universality and achieve enlightenment during the last 140 years. The ongoing fight for human rights and social justice is a battle against the interests of the privileged few who work to stay in power by keeping the masses anchored in their automatic reactions of self-defense and in-fighting, immediate gratification and reproduction. Advances in human knowledge can lead us to our next phase of evolution, one that must be made consciously. Quantum physics has shown us that the wall of separation we perceive between everything that exists in the universe and therefore, between matter and energy, subject and object, is not really there. Matter is not solid and space is not empty. The same particles that make up a table are interwoven with the air around it and with the table s owner. Once all of humanity accepts this vision of matter as a single but multiform creative energy event, we can begin a new era and the possibility of enlightened faith.
Human mind is programmed. It seeks complacency in respect of possessions, relations, situations, ideas. It seeks to actualize the: Comfort of choosing good-bad; Comfort of not committing errors; Comfort of results, future now; Comfort of relations behaving on your pattern; Comfort of your ideas not being challenged. This comfort is illusory. Just being aware of this comfort charges the brain to a new high, gives a touch of the unknown. Mind becomes fluid, tentative, vulnerable. Your will has a meaning now. Whatever is written in these pages is not to be implemented as a result oriented technique. Just read it and it is enough. When the point is understood, it will take root. It is to speed brake the momentum of thought with wonder. The change is fundamental, a mutation in the brain.
Josh Hellyer can look back and laugh at situations that would hurt and humiliate even the most stalwart among us, such as when he nervously wet his pants during a school play or the time he was told, "people would like you more if you didn't act like yourself." Hellyer's "glass half full" philosophy is contagious, and in reading his spirited true stories, you'll find yourself eager to take the risk to be genuine, dream big, and give life a squeeze. Hellyer's debut collection of funny and serenely thoughtful essays highlight the profound, universal, character-building lessons he has learned firsthand in his young life. With humor and grace, Hellyer tackles topics such as equality, depression, homosexuality, love, the power of words, and the importance of education. Among life's inevitable fears, anxieties, disappointments, and challenges, Hellyer finds laughter, unconditional family support, goodness, and enduring friendships. For anyone who wants to embrace life, with all its imperfections, and demand a more exuberant and satisfying journey, this upbeat collection will push you to discover what it means to be human and jumpstart the process of celebrating every day and living life to its fullest.
DO YOU DOUBT THE DAFFODIL is a bouquet of delightful and thoughtful bits of spiritual wisdom through the gardener's eye accompanied by engaging drawings and photographs. Belonging on the bedside table so you can go to sleep with it at night and awaken with it in the morning, this book is not a page-turner it's a book you want to get cozy with and revisit over a period of time.Each page is a spiritual journey of wisdom, play, challenges, quirky humor, and comfort that weaves a personal and uniquely different path for the reader. Written in garden metaphor, one walks through a garden and the garden of one's heart by reawakening to spring via newly sprouted seeds, grounding while smelling the tangy fragrance of pine, and experiencing the transformation in consciousness when an enclosure is held sacred. Bobbi Junod allows the reader to glimpse an inner landscape by witnessing her journey.If you are looking for a prize rose along your garden path, DO YOU DOUBT THE DAFFODIL provides the beauty and mystery that nature and spirit creates.
A complex contentious subject laced with humor, literature, and impelling illustrations, from a physician who has spent his life exploring the subject.
You Can Heal Your Life has transformed the lives of millions of people.
This is a book that people credit with profoundly altering their
awareness of the impact that the mind has on their health and wellbeing.
"Spiritual Snake Oil" shows that the same fallacies that plague religious apologetics also infect virtually all "new age" and "spiritual" writing. Author Chris Edwards does this by dissecting the arguments and assertions of the most prominent "new age" icons and "spiritual" writers. They include Robert Pirsig ("Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"), James Redfield ("The Celestine Prophecy"), Deepak Chopra ("Life After Death"), Dinesh D'Souza ("Life After Death"), Francis Collins's ("The Language of God"), Rhonda Byrne ("The Secret"), and even Michael Crichton (a surprising defender of New Age thinking). As Edwards shows, the same fallacies, the same errors in argument, show up time after time in the writings of these--and virtually all other--"new age" and "spiritual" writers. In addition to explaining these fallacies in the chapters devoted to the individual authors, Edwards devotes a final chapter, "A Compendium of Fallacies," to outlining the tricks and deceptive practices common to illogical arguments.
Depression, weight gain, fatigue, headaches, memory lapses, hair loss - these are just some of the vague, often debilitating symptoms that plague the more than 13 million patients with hypothyroidism. The typical blood test for diagnosis is often inaccurate, leaving many to suffer through ineffective treatment. But now, there is a solution: Dr Blanchard's groundbreaking programme draws on emerging research, medical facts and three decades of clinical experiences as an endocrinologist. This individualised programme uses questionnaires and charts to help diagnose sufferers through symptoms, not only lab results. It then treats patients of all ages with the safe but little used T3 hormone in combination with the more common T4 hormone. Aso including specific nutritional advice and alternative treatments, this is the one programme for sufferers of hypothyroidism that really works.
For the Christian woman the journey of womanhood and of moving from little girl to wonderful woman occurs while living in a world that is not her home and within a culture that does not reflect the norms and values of Christian teaching. Each of us must determine which of the cultural messages about what it means to be a woman we will pick up and carry with us and which we will leave behind, while carefully balancing living here in this present culture and reflecting the norms and values of permanent and eternal home.
What's a girl to do? How do we choose which cultural messages to accept and which to leave behind? And how do we eliminate all the excess baggage of lies and half-truths that weighs us down? Where did we pick up all this stuff in the first place?
Come along with author Cinthia W. Pratt and navigate through this culture in which we live; discover life-changing truths to set us free from the excess baggage of lies and half-truths. Will you dare to be "Fearfully Female and Wonderfully Woman," as God designed and intended? |
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