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Drawing heartbreaking beauty out of the simplest of details, Ann Voskamp invites you into her grace--bathed life of farming, parenting, and writing--and deeper still into your own life. Here you will discover a way of seeing that opens your eyes to ordinary amazing grace, a way of living that is fully alive, and a way of becoming present to God that brings you deep and lasting joy.
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2014.
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Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us, our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives. Lamott writes of forgiveness, restoration,...
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"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the headlines, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest ́when everything makes us feel, as Lamott puts it, "doomed, stunned, exhausted, and overly caffeinated" ́the seeds of rejuvenation...
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"Based on his ... Dream Big workshop, [the author] draws on a lifetime of living and dreaming large to help you reach your larger-than-life dreams ... he shows how to learn to define clearly your dreams for yourself, identify the obstacles holding you back, come up with a specific plan for reaching goals, and develop the tools that will help you act on the plan"--
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2017.
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"Something has changed. We all sense it. Cultural pressure is increasing, especially on our kids. But even in a world of addictions, ever-present screens, and gender-identity questions, youth can have clarity and confidence. We must help them attain it. In this honest and practical guide for parents and Christian leaders, John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle explore questions such as: What unseen undercurrents are shaping twenty-first-century youth culture?...
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c2000
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Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O'Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this decidedly down-to-earth, often-hilarious book, O'Reilley describes her work in an agricultural barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France, where she studied with Thich Nhat Hanh. She seeks, in both barn and monastery, a spirituality based not in "climbing out...
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2008
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If you only had one month to live, how would you make each day meaningful? How would you relate to others differently? What would you do to make the rest of your life really matter? This book will challenge you to embrace the life God has entrusted to you and you alone, and to live it out moment by moment with wholehearted authenticity, honesty, and integrity. Complete with uplifting action points, each of the thirty chapters--one per day in a life-changing...
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Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush speak on the spiritual opportunities in the dying process and share personal experiences and practices for every aspect of this journey. They explore what it means to live and die consciously, remember who we really are, and illuminate the path we walk together.
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2021.
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"...Drawing on rich examples from Scripture and everyday life, Grace Bomb shows us how we can: Go beyond cultural expectations of kindness, deepen our sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, overcome barriers such as fear, busyness, and prejudice, have fun while exercising our faith beyond Sundays, break the ice with our neighbors today. With inspiring stories from people around the world who have discovered the joy of Grace Bombing, this energizing book...
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2013.
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Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace when life lurches out of balance; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a time.
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c2005
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Every woman longs for something to make her feel complete, content, fulfilled. This devotional offers 70 simple messages designed to encourage you to entrust these desires to Godandmdash;and to receive the soul satisfaction and heartfelt peace that He alone can give. Come to recognize that your longings for a spouse, a child, healing, purpose in life, to belong, to be desired and more are shared by other women and that God has a plan for them
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What is the meaning of life? It's a question every thoughtful person has pondered at one time or another. Indeed, it may be the biggest question of all. Professor Jay L. Garfield offer a rigorous and wide-ranging exploration of what various spiritual, religious and philosophical traditions.
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2021.
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In a world where dating is increasingly geared toward casual relationships rather than marriage, it's easy to feel discouraged, used, or unworthy of true love and lasting affection. The author seeks to dispel the myths, misconceptions, and fairy tales you've believed about dating. The book explains God's purposes for singleness, dating, and marriage and covers why, who and how you should date.
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2017.
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In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh--one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today--reveals an art of living in mindfulness that helps us answer lifes deepest questions and experience the happiness and freedom we desire. Thich Nhat Hanh presents, for...
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Library of wisdom and compassion volume 3
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[2018]
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Reveals the mind's Buddha Nature by explaining Buddhist thought on the self, describing how afflictions arise and are cured, and examining karma and cyclical existence.