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The doctor told Wanda that she had a fourth of an ovary and that child bearing was not an option. God had promised her that she would have children. Was God going to lie to her? God fulfills His promises. After years of waiting and trying, Wanda brought five children into this world and was a mother just as was promised. With the miracle came an unwanted price since we have come to believe that Heaven has a price on some of its most cherished of gifts....
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Learn how to work your way through life's unexpected challenges with grace and find a deeper faith while on your journey. In this biblical and conversational book by Dr. Tony Evans and his four adult children-Chrystal Evans Hurst, Priscilla Shirer, Anthony Evans, and Jonathan Evans-you will hear five insightful perspectives on what it means to hold on to faith when life breaks your heart.
We have all been through difficult seasons and times in life...
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Hay algunos hermosos mensajes de amor enviados por Cristo a su pueblo en la tierra, en los capítulos segundo y tercero del último libro de la Biblia, que tal vez usted haya pasado por alto, pasándolos por alto como no dirigidos a usted; o, como conteniendo cosas demasiado difíciles de entender para usted. Es posible que hayáis estado acostumbrados a considerar el libro del Apocalipsis como un difícil escrito profético, y por lo tanto es posible...
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Love, in its purest form, is a beautiful and powerful force. However, the path of love is not always smooth sailing. When a relationship falters and heartbreak sets in, it can feel like your emotional compass has been shattered, leaving you lost and disoriented in a sea of uncertainty. You might question everything you thought you knew about love, relationships, and even yourself. Love's Broken Compass is not just another "get over it" guide. This...
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Alyson Franz suffered a painful loss and didn't know how she could ever get past it. Being a therapist herself at the time, she tried many traditional approaches with no success. This led her to a journey of healing, transformation, and a complete change in her professional work. She has now rebuilt both her life and her professional practice based on what she has learned on this journey, which includes extensive training in transformative healing...
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Can the ghost of Nora's mother help her stop her dad from getting remarried? It's been three years since Nora's mother died, and while she and her sister, Patsy, want her father to be happy again, they're not ready for him to remarry. They especially don't want him to marry "the Tooth"-the woman with the overbite who could soon be their stepmother. While the girls try to upend their dad's relationship, they soon find themselves competing for the new...
47) Last Wish
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At a time when tempers flare over the Oregon assisted suicide law and Jack Kevorkian's physician-aid-in-dying, “Last Wish”, Betty Rollin's groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, is due for a rereading. “Last Wish” is an intimate, fiercely honest memoir of a daughter's struggle to come to terms with her terminally ill mother's decision to die. More than an examination of the ethical, spiritual, and technical aspects of assisted suicide,...
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Grief is something we will all experience at one time or another. For Michael C. Robinson, it was a time of mixed emotions and unparalleled anguish. While reflecting on a life of fond memories of his mother in processing his own sorrow, this book is the result.
Dear Mama: A Journey Through Grief allows you to glimpse into Michael C. Robinson's life while reflecting on your own journey through grief. With reflection questions at the end of each...
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Death and Life, Letters to Heal the Soul, is a personal reflection by a woman who was unexpectedly and violently widowed at the age of 49. Her life project was destroyed, and she was left alone. She and her husband lived alone, were unable to have children, and their families were more than 1,500 km away. They had a happy and well-constituted marriage, projecting that way into old age. Her husband began experiencing unusual symptoms unexpectedly....
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When Jessica Handler was eight years old, her younger sister Susie was diagnosed with leukemia. To any family, the diagnosis would have been upending, but to the Handlers, whose youngest daughter, Sarah, had been born with a rare, fatal blood disorder, it was an unimaginable verdict. Struck by the unlikelihood of siblings sick with diametrically opposed illnesses, the medical community labeled the Handlers' situation a bizarre coincidence. By the...
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A therapist shares her memoir of survival after the death of her infant daughter and the process she developed to cope with her grief.
How do you make sense of loss and tragedy? After the sudden and devastating loss of her infant daughter, Lily Dulan (a marriage and family therapist, psychotherapist, and certified yoga teacher) meditated, prayed, and ruminated on the only thing she had left-her baby girl's name. In Lily's courage to address and move...
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As we travel through this journey, we call life, we are often presented with pivotal moments. A moment in time, where the decisions we make put us on a path that changes our lives forever. One of these pivotal moments occurred for me on March 10th, 2019, when my father Ramsay suffered a severe debilitating stroke while on a humanitarian home build in Lampang, Thailand. This story is a true account in journal form of the events that occurred following...
53) The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery
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A Jewish Book Award Finalist
In the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Last Lecture, New York Times bestselling author Sara Davidson met every Friday with 89-year-old Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, the iconic founder of the Jewish Renewal movment, to discuss what he calls The December Project. "When you can feel in your cells that you're coming to the end of your tour of duty," he said, "what is the spiritual work of this time, and how do...
54) Umbrella Summer
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2021
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Annie Richards knows there are a million things to look out for—bicycle accidents, food poisoning, chicken pox, smallpox, typhoid fever, runaway zoo animals, and poison oak. That's why being careful is so important, even if it does mean giving up some of her favorite things, like bike races with her best friend, Rebecca, and hot dogs on the Fourth of July. Everyone keeps telling Annie not to worry so much, that she's just fine. But they thought
...55) Sam and Lucy
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Lucy is Sam's best hen. She takes good care of the baby chicks and makes sure all the chickens in the flock have a place to roost. Everyone loves Lucy. Especially Sam. Lucy and Sam do the chores together, go fishing--and Lucy always waits for Sam's bus after school. When Lucy starts to limp, the vet lets Sam know that Lucy is getting old and the best thing to do is give her lots of extra love. Which is just what Sam does. This tender story tells readers...
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Discover How to Heal and Overcome Grief Fast! Today only, get this bestseller for a less than the cost of a sandwich! Read it on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or other device. You're about to discover a logical and proven method on how to overcome grief and deal with loss fast. Millions of people suffer with grief and bereavement and ruin their personal life as well as their careers trying to deal with it the best they can. Most people realize...
57) Always With Me
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Always With Me guides those who have lost a loved one how to discover happiness once again.
Losing a loved one to death, especially after a long-term relationship, can be exceedingly painful. The intense emotions can feel overwhelming and even paralyzing at times. The joy one once felt seems to be gone and impossible to recover. The days are dark, and the nights are even darker. Always With Me works to show those who have lost a loved one that there...
58) Never Eighteen
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Austin Parker is on a journey to bring truth, beauty, and meaning to his life.
Austin Parker is never going to see his eighteenth birthday. At the rate he’s going, he probably won’t even see the end of the year. The doctors say his chances of surviving are slim to none even with treatment, so he’s decided it’s time to let go.
But before he goes, Austin wants to mend the broken fences in his life. So with the help of his best friend, Kaylee,...
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How does life go on after losing a child?
Life from the Ashes shares the dark and raw story of Shari O'Loughlin's loss of her 14-year-old son, Connor, who was shockingly killed in an airplane crash on his way home from a four-day vacation. Like all parents, Shari was struck with the most unimaginable nightmare when her family received the soul-numbing news.
Parents trying to navigate the perilous journey of traumatic loss know the path is agonizing....
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Your loss and brokenness could turn into a doorway of discovering how much the sovereign God cares about you. That's exactly what Mary experienced in grief when her youngest son died as a result of injuries from a car accident. The tragedy led her to review God's actions in her life in prior experiences, which enabled her to trust in His demonstration of lovingkindness in the grief the family and community experienced.
God is the divine Puzzle...
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