Mense wat dankbaar is, gelukkiger slaap, beter fokus, is beter en is makliker om mee oor die weg te kom. Om meer dankbaar te leef is seker iets waarna ons almal probeer streef. Francine Prins, redakeur van LiG neem ons op ’n 100 dae reis van dankbaarheid. Sy wys ons hoe ons elke dag kan dankbaar wees, waarvoor ons dankbaar kan wees en hoe om in dankbaarheid te leef.

Yorick Blumenfeld has been writing his whole life. He has travelled and reported from more than ninety countries as a foreign correspondent. Over the past few decades he has been examining the future, both as the General Editor of the series Prospects for Tomorrow (Thames & Hudson)

Mans leef in ’n wêreld waar die rolle van manlikheid so verander het dat dit met tye vir hulle moeilik is om te weet wie hulle werklik is en wat van hulle verwag word. Die eise wat ’n gewone dag aan mans stel kan soms selfs die mees ervare individu laat twyfel aan sy bevoegdhede. Die boek skep ’n bewustheid by mense, en nie net mans nie, van die alledaagse en mees algemene lewensuitdagings waarvoor mans te staan kom, en probeer hulle toerus met relevante inligting wat hulle sal help om meer doeltreffende, emosioneel gelukkige en vervulde lewens te lei. Die boek word verdeel in verhoudings- en lewensfase-uitdagings, verslawing, gemoedsprobleme en traumatiese ervarings.

"Rediscovering the Beauty of Sabbath Rest"
Our bodies and souls were "created "to rest--regularly--and when they do, we experience heightened productivity, improved health, and more meaningful relationships.
In these pages you'll find wonderful stories of the senator's spiritual journey, as well as special Sabbath experiences with political colleagues such as Bill Clinton, Al and Tipper Gore, John McCain, Colin Powell, George W. Bush, Bob Dole, and others. Senator Joe Lieberman shows how his observance of the Sabbath has not only enriched his personal and spiritual life but enhanced his career and enabled him to serve his country to his greatest capacity.

Influential pastor of the 25,000 member Dream City Church has built his entire life and ministry around the book's message: God is the original dreamer and He wants His dreams for you to come true. Offering contemporary wisdom through the Bible story of Joseph, The Dream Centered Life will inspire and challenge readers to ask God to plant a new dream in their hearts, to trust Him with a current dream, and to hold on to the dream through inevitable pit stops along the way. Written in an accessible, conversational style, the book focuses on biblical principles that reveal how dreams can reach fruition. The inclusion of real life stories and culturally relevant references will appeal to modern-day believers at all levels of faith.

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"When I clear a quiet space for my family, I make room for our souls to grow."
-Katrina Kenison

As mothers today we are faced with daunting responsibilities and increasing pressure to do and have it all. How easy it is to rush headlong through our lives, slaves to our daily obligations—and to rush our children through their childhoods in the process. But there is another way...

In MITTEN STRINGS FOR GOD, Katrina Kenison shares her own search for a more satisfying balance in her life. The result is a lyrical, heartfelt series of reflections, interwoven with gentle suggestions and practical advice, that remind us what happens when we slow down and become fully present in our lives. Suddenly there is room for joy and play and intimacy, space for wonder and reverie, time to awaken to the beauty of the world and rediscover the sacred in the ordinary. Coming home to ourselves, we are able to offer our children the one thing they need more than anything else: our own quiet presence. And we receive something priceless in return—the chance to savor our lives and the precious people in them.

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EVERY WOMAN HAS A STORY™
Many Voices, Many Lessons, Many Lives
True Tales Compiled by Daryl Ott Underhill
When Daryl Ott Underhill put out a call to women everywhere for their personal stories, she received hundreds of wonderful replies. Now in this compilation of the most inspiring essays she received, you will meet women of all ages who, amid tears and laughter, honestly share the truest and most important moments of their lives. From turning thirty to realizing you're metamorphosing into your mother...from joyfully watching children grow to the bittersweet letting go when they leave the nest...here are the rites of passage that link us all.

"There's something meaningful and enjoyable here for women of every age."
-Chattanooga Free Press

I'D RATHER LAUGH
How to Be Happy Even When Life
Has Other Plans for You
by Linda Richman
"It's one thing to hear your $150-an-hour (excuse me, fifty minutes) shrink say that if you do this, this, and this, you'll laugh again. It's another, I think, to hear it from me." A tragic childhood, agoraphobia, and the death of a beloved son…Linda Richman has suffered more hurt, loss, and rejection than any person ought, yet she still has the power to find joy in living. In this candid and hilarious book, Linda shares her unbelievable losses and setbacks, and offers readers guidance with the uplifting, often uproarious ways she's dealt with them.

"The Jewish mother you wish you had-full of wisdom and wit....She's managed to find humor in even her darkest moments—and her hilarious, moving memoir will inspire you to do the same."
-Glamour

EVERYDAY I LOVE YOU MORE
(Just Not Today)
by Nancy Shulins
In this touching, perceptive, and often hilarious book, Nancy Shulins casts a warm and compassionate eye on the moments that make up married life. She offers insightful answers to questions about grown-up love and she shows you how to give and forgive and what to remember and what to overlook. Heartfelt and wise, here are stories from real life that will bring new hope and light to any married life, proving that while passion may pass, true love is really here to stay.

"Should be required reading for every 15-year-old girl who dreamily doodles 'Mrs.' all over her algebra notebook-and for every 35-year-old woman trying to remember why she ever did."
-Patt Morrison, columnist, L.A. Times, and commentator, NPR

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019, a powerful, well-researched, fictional account exploring the trokosi tradition for the curious and the open-minded. Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nine-year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Katas' idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abeo's father, following his mother's advice, places the girl in a religious shrine, hoping that the sacrifice of his daughter will serve as atonement for the crimes of his ancestors. Unspeakable acts befall Abeo for the fifteen years she is enslaved within the shrine. When she is finally rescued, broken and battered, she must struggle to overcome her past, endure the revelation of family secrets, and learn to trust and love again. In the tradition of Chris Cleave's Little Bee, Praise Song for the Butterflies is a contemporary story that offers an educational, eye-opening account of the practice of ritual servitude in West Africa. Spanning decades and two continents, Praise Song for the Butterflies is an unflinching tale of the devastation that children are subject to when adults are ruled by fear and someone must pay the consequences. "Abeo is unrelenting - a fiery protagonist who sparks in every scene. Bernice L. McFadden has created yet another compelling story, this time about hope and freedom." Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun

20 unique prints encapsulating the most important lessons The School of Life has to teach. Art is never merely decoration. From cave paintings to modern sculpture, our species has always used pictures and images to express our most important ideas: encapsulating the messages we deem necessary to remember in order to live better lives. Far from simply being objects of beauty, art is a reminder of what truly matters. Bold Truths is a collection of wise statements immortalised as art: 20 philosophical prints encapsulating the most important lessons The School of Life has to teach. Brought to life by leading artists and designers, they're ready-made prints that can be lifted out and displayed in your home or place of work as a permanent reminder of how to live well. They're a perfect marriage of beauty and utility: exquisite illustrations of essential ideas.

This book comprises responses by a Sufi master, Hadrat Sahib of the Naqshbandi tradition, to letters written by students of the master. The questions posed in these letters cover a wide range of issues including, financial problems, health issues, family matters, education and bereavement. The advice given by the master reveals a deep spirituality which places the particular student's problem in context and details a specific method of offering oneself to God at all times. It is difficult to find such detail relating to spiritual practices in Sufi literature. These letters are inspirational and timeless. They provide a cure to a world dominated by materialism and all its attendant miseries.

David Tabor (1913-2005) was a highly respected and much loved member of the Cambridge Jewish community for almost sixty years. This book contains his Kol Nidre addresses, Bar Mitzvah talks and funeral eulogies, as well as a selection of poems, articles and other talks on Jewish topics.

Iman Rappetti is an award-winning journalist who has been involved in print, radio and television. She worked as a young journalist in South Africa and then abandoned it (along with all her worldly possessions) when she became Muslim. She lived in the Islamic Republic of Iran for two years, where she also worked on a current affairs TV show for the state broadcaster before returning to South Africa and resuming her life here.

She describes herself as `the youngest of five children. One Rasatafarian brother (passed away), one ex-con brother (who can dance the pants off any woman and has a wicked sense of humour), another brother who's a big shot in the marine engineering industry (he makes a mean curry), and a sister who has the thankless task of staying at home and raising the rugrats (she has a way with words, and also makes a kick-ass briyani)'.

In this moving and entertaining memoir, Iman shares stories and what she has learned from her colourful journey through life.

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Denis Tuohy had been a broadcaster in news and current affairs for half a century when he was asked to contribute to BBC Radio Ulster's Thought for the Day in his native Belfast. A reporter and presenter who had covered major stories around the world for BBC's Panorama and Tonight, ITV's This Week and ITN news was to move into uncharted territory. This book is a collection of his Thought for the Day pieces over the past few years with a linking commentary about his professional and personal life. "Across my own wide landscape," he says, " I've been free to make unprompted choices of subject and to communicate them, in little more than a couple of minutes, to listeners in cars, kitchens, care homes, as they face up to another day." The choices have been prompted by his travels, by meeting famous names and by personal history. In her memoirs Margaret Thatcher described their first encounter as hostile but met him again in calmer circumstances. Richard Burton told him he could no longer watch his beloved Wales play rugby in case they might lose. Ireland's rugby star Jack Kyle said that his moments of inspired brilliance had "somehow happened through him and he was grateful." He recalls a multi-faith gathering in New York after the killing of Martin Luther King, meeting an integrated Belfast singing group in apartheid South Africa, and taking part as an actor in Over the Bridge, Sam Thompson's play about bigotry in the Belfast shipyard. Streets and Secret Places is a mix of reflections that have featured in Thought for the Day including insights that have come with experience.

Let me tell you what this book is not. It's not about religion. It's not about telling you how to live your life. It's not about taking on a new set of beliefs. Plain and simple, it's about how to relate to your own thoughts and emotions in a way that makes your life more enjoyable, more free, brighter, clearer and wiser. At the age of twenty-six, Bjoern Natthiko Lindeblad abandoned a promising career, gave away all his possessions, and left his loved ones to become a forest monk. For seventeen years he lived according to the rules of the monastery. After returning to Swedish society, he was met with the diagnosis of a progressive, incurable disease: ALS. In I May Be Wrong, he shares his hard-won insights into how one can live a more present life, and what stands out as most important when things are coming to an end. The result is a beautiful, powerful and urgent last lesson on how we can live more peacefully with ourselves, and come to accept the uncertainty that is a part of all we do.

Join over forty Christian historians as they journey through the biblical and historical past, reading God's word in light of the experiences of those made in God's image. Along with an invitation to study Scripture from Genesis through Revelation, Faith and History: A Devotional provides a link between modern Christians and faithful believers from the past - reminding us of all we share in our faith in the present day, as well as how different were the past worlds of our sisters and brothers in Christ. With Faith and History, you will read the Gospels in light of the Civil Rights Movement and the Holocaust and pray the psalms alongside Frederick Douglass and Isaac Watts. Learn more about well-known Christians such as Billy Graham, C. S. Lewis, Aimee Semple McPherson, John Perkins, and St. Patrick, and meet historical figures who are less known but no less significant, such as faith healer Kathryn Kuhlman, Anabaptist martyr Felix Manz, and medieval mystic Margery Kempe. Each scriptural passage pairs with a historical reflection, suggests questions for further consideration and discussion, recommends resources for historical study, and closes with a short prayer. This unique devotional integrates historical reflection with study and prayer to help Christians meet their ongoing need for spiritual formation. Faith and History is also intended to help Christians better understand their relationship to the past at a time when history, memory, and heritage are so hotly contested in American politics and society.