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In this inspirational work, the author offers concrete advice on
how to cope with life’s greatest tragedies, challenges, and
disappointments. She reminds her readers that there are no “pat
answers” to why misfortunes sometimes occur and that these
troubles are not necessarily tests of one’s love for God or
punishment for one’s sins. She shares with us some of the
challenges in her own life and the lives of her readers, and she
reveals how we can grow closer to Jesus Christ, as she has, by
accepting Him as the one true answer to life’s tough and
seemingly unanswerable questions.
Once again Eugenia Price offers inspiration and insight to the
countless readers who have shared her journey toward discovery
through the years. In Another Day she leads her readers
through familiar and favorite passages from the Bible, quoting
verses which have been most meaningful to her. For each there is a
story of how she has applied these passages to her own life and how
they can work for you as well.
First published with great success in 1979, and now reissued with
an updated Preface, Leave Yourself Alone is a book
Eugenia Price’s readers will want to add to their personal
collection of her writings. According to Eugenia Price, the
emotionally healthy person is the one who is focused outside of the
self, and whose attention is directed toward God and other people.
In Leave Yourself Alone, she explores specific areas of
life–work, prayer, conversation, relationships–where people can
and should “leave themselves alone.” In her own inimitable and
charming style, Ms. Price prods her readers to turn to Him in times
of trouble. She states, “As long as we are pulled inward,
wringing our own hands in despair and self-attention, we don’t
have a free hand to reach for God’s grace. If we mean to leave
ourselves alone, we must keep a free hand for what He has to give.
He always knows exactly what we need.”
Here, for the first time outside the pages of a small Island
newspaper called Georgia’s Coastal Illustrated, Eugenia
shares with her worldwide reading public, some of what life was
like during the first years in which she and her best friend and
fellow writer, Joyce Blackburn, were becoming Islanders.
“These short pieces,” Genie says, “include my observations
day by day of what it was like, at last, to be at home on St.
Simons. We were learning how to be neighbors, after so many years
of complex life in the huge northern city of Chicago; learning how
to care deeply for people with whom, at first glance, we had little
in common. We were understanding what it really meant to
have come home.” Eugenia Price, called by many St.
Simons’ own “beloved invader,” tells you here about those
early years as they were being lived. Her St. Simons Memoir,
cherished by thousands, was written from memory and notes in old
desk calendars, but At Home on St. Simons illuminates
some of the experiences which most changed her—as they occurred.
More than fourteen million people have read Eugenia Price’s books
which have been translated into fifteen languages. Much of the
magic these millions remember so vividly years after the reading,
began in the simple, sad, joyous, and absorbing events related to
this singular volume. Never before published is a brand new opening
chapter, in which Ms. Price attempts to explain—almost as to
herself—why, in the face of such drastic change on the once
provincial little coastal island, she is still–at home on St.
Simons. Her readers do not have to see the Island firsthand, to
recognize their own response to her sense of place.
This is only one of the many revelations in Eugenia Price’s
intimate account of the many months she spent sorting through
voluminous historical research and writing Margaret’s
Story, the third novel in her Florida trilogy. Published as a
companion to the novel, this journal offers a fascinating view of
the author at work as the novel developed week by week. Here, for
the sharing, is her excitement as her story’s characters
emerge–living, breathing “people” who become for the duration
more real to her than those who are part of her day-to-day
existence. Here, too, is her joy on “good” writing days, her
anxiety in times of creative uncertainty, her frustrations at
unavoidable interruptions–and her courage in resisting
discouragement and discomfort (through most of this period she was
plagued with vertigo caused by labyrinthitis). From time to time
she isolated herself in a St. Augustine motel to work undisturbed,
but when at home on St. Simons Island she managed to continue with
the novel and be at the same time a caring friends to everyone who
needed her. In Diary of a Novel the reader will
encounter many of the friends met in St. Simons
Memoir and make, with the author, some new friends as well.
Most of all, this behind-the-scenes narrative will give a new
dimension to the experience of reading the novel Margaret's
Story.
Eugenia Price has written a very personal, accessible book about
what for her is the central tenet of contemporary Christian life.
It is a book for all Christian readers, one of her finest
inspirationals. "Is it faith, she asks? Is it prayer? Is it
spiritual growth? Is it praise? Is it service and giving? Is it our
commitment to God Himself? Yes, these are all basics for a fruitful
life as a Christian. But underlying and enhancing these virtues is
God’s everlasting love for us. Once we are sure in this knowledge
– that God will never forsake us – everything else will fall
into place. Faith and prayer and praise and giving and service and
commitment to God and our fellow men will begin
to happen as a result of our paying attention to the
all-important fact of His unswerving commitment to us.
There is no way to understand the Book of Acts without affirming
the existence of a dynamic and living Spirit. Eugenia Price
embodies this Spirit in words which make The Acts a joyous
revelation. Something extraordinary happened to the men and women
in this New Testament book, ending their grief and filling them
with sudden courage. From the moment they poured into the streets
on Pentecost to the time of Paul’s last words from prison, Jesus
energized these early Christians from within. Their lives reveal
the triumphant story of how the church began to “happen,” and
in those first conflict-torn, joy-filled days we are able to see
how it was meant to be, even now, for those of us who call
ourselves Christians. Miss Price writes, “Why it is not this way
for us now, or why it is, at best, only this way now and then, I
feel we must decide. I find little or no doctrine in the Acts, but
I do find life, and great and simple helps in learning to live
it.” Learning to Live from the Acts is a sequel to the
author’s book, Learning to Live From the Gospels.
Originally published to great acclaim in 1969 The Unique World of
Women is filled with Eugenia Price’s sage advice on how
twentieth-century women can learn from the trials and tribulations
suffered by the women of the Bible. In The Unique World of
Women, Eugenia Price creates unforgettable, intimate portraits of
Keturah, Mary of Jerusalem, and other women from the Bible, and
relates their troubles to the dilemmas women face today. She
reinforces the notion that God needed women then and He needs them
now—women who will witness to His love and use their unique
sensitivity and compassion in order to better our fragmented and
ailing society. In simple yet provocative language, Ms. Price
shares with her readers what she has learned from these Biblical
women, what God has taught her, and what He is still trying to
teach women today. Updated with a new Preface, The Unique
World of Women is a timely work that belongs on the
bookshelves of today’s Christian women.
In these chaotic times, when many people who claim to be Christian
are searching for “relevance” in the secular to justify their
worldly aspirations, much of the Christian heritage is being
ignored or discarded. But Miss Price turns time back for a moment
and in these early Victorian lyrics she finds surprisingly sound,
contemporary meaning that stands boldly above the ideas of
today’s so-called radical thinkers. Each line of this
long-favored song responds to Miss Price’s interpretation with
stirring impact—whether it be in strong yet soft tones that
comfort the hearts of the lonely, the troubled, and the suffering
or in stunning crescendo to rouse the inattentive and careless.
Through Miss Price’s weaving of the lyrics into her book, Just As
I Am, the familiar music of the song accompanies the reader from
page to page. Then she syncopates the theme, illuminating it for a
fresh appraisal in the light of today’s burning issues. She does
this by applying the song’s ethically and psychologically sound
thesis both to her own life and to the lives of persons in
tragically real confrontations with “fightings and fears within,
without.” Each example shines like a beacon to guide the
faltering to a Christian understanding and a peace unfulfilled by a
secular situation ethic. How should a Christian view the war? What
course to consolations for the widow and parents of a young man
killed in Vietnam? What choice for the guilt-ridden man who loves
his wife, his children and his mistress? Is there a “correct”
way to approach God? The answers are not found in protests, trips
to the psychiatrist, divorce or even death. Miss Price seeks and
finds answers in the deep abiding love and faith that “has broken
every barrier down.” Just As I Am will be acclaimed Eugenia
Price’s finest contribution to the search for a meaningful
Christian life.
“Everyone today is an expert on love,” is Dr. Allan
Fromme’s cryptic reflection on our current mood. With a sense of
human adventure, Eugenia Price suggests in Make Love Your
Aim that anyone can be “an expert on love” if
he will dare to discover for himself the love God offers. “We
have so sentimentalized our concept of love that it bears no
resemblance to the original,” Miss Price writes. “We have taken
the word of romantic novels and motion pictures and TV and perfume
and men above the Word of God. The Bible declares that God is love.
How closely does your concept of love resemble the love of God? We
tend to judge the quality of love according to the way it makes the
loved one feel. But to judge love by feeling is our big error and
the point at which we turn aside from God’s original concept.”
Make Love Your Aim is a companion piece to the author’s
last book, The Wider Place, which was described by some
readers as a “controversial challenge” to try the inner freedom
God grants to anyone who want it enough to assume the
responsibilities that come with it. Freedom and love are two sides
of the same coin. And we can only understand them enough to
practice them if we know the way God defines them. How does He do
this? In Jesus Christ, the final yet continuing revelation of
God’s true intentions toward all of us. Those who are familiar
with Eugenia Price’s books will recognize this as a recurring
theme. Make Love Your Aim develops it with imagination
and versatility: “Jesus said, ‘If the Son shall make you free,
you shall be free indeed.’ But He was offering to wave no magic
wand over our heads so that we could do as we pleased. He also
said, ‘This is my commandment, That you love one another as I
have loved you.’ His is the love of the Cross, without
self-defense, without self-pity – and totally free.”
Her joyous remembrance of her first decade on an enchanted island
And of those cherished friends who inspired her best-selling
trilogy, Lighthouse, New Moon Rising, and Beloved
Invader. After only a few golden hours on Georgia’s St.
Simons Island, Eugenia Price longed to make it her home. Even
though she loved her old town house in Chicago, and her busy
writing and lecturing schedule, the shadow-streaked, light-filled
place had cast its spell and would not let her go. The reader, too,
will feel the Island’s magic as Genie describes her odyssey with
her friend Joyce Blackburn from the urban North to Southern
small-town community life and peace. With deep affection and humor
she shares her many friendships—with “the first six,” the
elderly folk who gave her their love, their stories, and their
memories so that she could write her novels of St. Simons; with her
beloved editor, Tay Hohoff, who encouraged and goaded her; and with
all the other people who helped with her writing and with the
building of her Island home in the midst of the “dear dark
woods.” Although she had been uncertain at first of her welcome
to St. Simons, she later experienced the rare privilege of having
the Island name a day in her honor. These intimate pages are also
filled with Genie’s quiet faith in God and her eternal gratitude
for His grace in sending her to St. Simons. She calls her book a
memoir, but it is more than that. It is a thanksgiving celebration
of life and of its surprising goodness even in the midst of sorrow
and loss. So that she can exclaim to Joyce, “How could life be
better than it is right now?”
Here is the good news of the Gospels In the light of Eugenia
Price’s revealing, dynamic insight as she searches for God’s
own answers for today’s readers. The familiar Gospel words
breathe with new life as she cuts through the superficialities of
those who attempt to deemphasize the Bible and draws up sharp
guidelines which twentieth-century Christians can follow. Each of
Miss Price’s favorite Gospel verses is included in the book,
followed by her reflections on them. Her exposition of the beloved
King James passages rings with authenticity and poetic authority.
In the Preface to Learning To Live From The Gospels, Miss
Price writes: “You will find little or no information here
concerning who wrote and who did not write the Gospels as we know
them. You will find no scientific verification of the miracles –
not even a defense of them. God’s activities need no defense from
us. There are no scholarly apologetics, no exegeses of the more
obscure passages of Scripture. I do not know how to do any of this.
I find it enough to attempt to learn how to live by the passages I
do understand. Having met Christ when I was well along on my
earthly journey, what has held my interest from the beginning of my
life with Him has not been how to analyze or criticize the Bible,
but how to learn to live from it … I know of no
better place to learn how to live than from the four provocative
Gospel accounts of the earthly life of the God who loved us enough
to become one of us.”
Like a wise counselor and friend, New York
Times bestselling author Eugenia Price speaks directly to
women everywhere with practicality and inspiration. With over one
million copies in print, Woman to Woman provides advice
that will touch all women who strive for a Christ-centered life.
From her own experiences, struggles, and victories on the way
to peace, Eugenia Price offers in this book a step-by-step guide
for all who seek a new, happy and complete life. This thrilling and
inspiring chronicle of spiritual adventure lifts the heart and head
of the reader, as the widely respected Christian author and speaker
lets Christ speak through her to those who long to follow Him as
Lord of their lives. Here is memorable, meaningful testimony that:
"He Himself is the end of Everyman's search. Here is a simple,
soul-encompassing song of the everlasting, ever-new truth to the
Word that God is Love."
The Wider Place is a book about liberty-not license. Author Eugenia
price wrote this book as a product of a distinct change in life
pattern after choosing to follow Jesus Christ. In The Wider Place,
she attempts to share some fo the results of the new freedom she
found in making a firm decision to slow down, find time and privacy
in which to learn to listen to God; to learn of him and herself in
relation to Him.
What God had to say to women in Bible times, He is still saying
today. Like Sarah, women are still having to uproot their homes and
move when they don't want to move. Like Sarah with her maid, women
are still being self-righteous and jealous. Like Leah, unattractive
women still clutch desperately at any means of holding the man they
love, and like Leah's beautiful sister, Rachel, beautiful women
still feel life owes them romance and happiness. There are many
books on the market about women of the Bible. The extremely human
stories of Bible women have been used by Eugenia Price, but as a
valid wedge to open the minds of women today to what God has said
to them in the Bible. Her perceptive psychological analysis of the
problems of each Bible personality and its application to women
today is stimulating and provocative.
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