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Author: Karen Gryder Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1449724426 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 141
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"I believe God will use Karen's story mightily to transform broken lives and to help the rest of us realize how truly blessed we are not to have suffered as Karen did." - Carole Lewis First Place 4 Health National Director "What a touching triumph over a difficult childhood. Karen's raw and honest voice immediately draws us into her life. What a tribute to her inner strength to acknowledge her past and use it as a tool to help others who have also been victims of childhood abuse and neglect." - Ruthanne Mefford Director, Child Advocates of Fort Bend It begins with Karen's reality: Bad as home was, I always wanted to go back there, 'cause I belonged! "Home" is an isolated Appalachian barn where poverty, neglect, and abuse go unseen until the children (twelve) reach school age. At age five and deathly ill from parasites, Karen watches from the welfare agents' back seat as her hysterical mom's image gets smaller while the car speeds away. Terrified, yet determined, she remembers their route; she will get back home. Orphanage memories are horrific, but she thanks God for tricycles and popsicles (her first). Gossip has it the town prostitutes ratted on the family's health. Moving from hating these women to seeing how God uses them to protect the kids is the beginning of Karen's faith. Running from welfare, moving constantly, Karen knows she's the dirtiest, poorest kid in school. Scenarios change, but chaotic, frightening themes of fear, hunger, abuse and peer ridicule repeat. Then, at age sixteen, Karen senses hope when she marries Terry and prepares her first home, a $4000 trailer, for their child. Could this be stability? If only! Hard work, little pay, parenting and marriage stresses become overwhelming. Acts of ministry from Karen's home church sustain her until a new devastating challenge surfaces: providing for her children, extended family, and husband, Terry, who now has a life-threatening illness. Can she manage this trial? Can she preserve?
Author: Karen Gryder Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1449724426 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 141
Book Description
"I believe God will use Karen's story mightily to transform broken lives and to help the rest of us realize how truly blessed we are not to have suffered as Karen did." - Carole Lewis First Place 4 Health National Director "What a touching triumph over a difficult childhood. Karen's raw and honest voice immediately draws us into her life. What a tribute to her inner strength to acknowledge her past and use it as a tool to help others who have also been victims of childhood abuse and neglect." - Ruthanne Mefford Director, Child Advocates of Fort Bend It begins with Karen's reality: Bad as home was, I always wanted to go back there, 'cause I belonged! "Home" is an isolated Appalachian barn where poverty, neglect, and abuse go unseen until the children (twelve) reach school age. At age five and deathly ill from parasites, Karen watches from the welfare agents' back seat as her hysterical mom's image gets smaller while the car speeds away. Terrified, yet determined, she remembers their route; she will get back home. Orphanage memories are horrific, but she thanks God for tricycles and popsicles (her first). Gossip has it the town prostitutes ratted on the family's health. Moving from hating these women to seeing how God uses them to protect the kids is the beginning of Karen's faith. Running from welfare, moving constantly, Karen knows she's the dirtiest, poorest kid in school. Scenarios change, but chaotic, frightening themes of fear, hunger, abuse and peer ridicule repeat. Then, at age sixteen, Karen senses hope when she marries Terry and prepares her first home, a $4000 trailer, for their child. Could this be stability? If only! Hard work, little pay, parenting and marriage stresses become overwhelming. Acts of ministry from Karen's home church sustain her until a new devastating challenge surfaces: providing for her children, extended family, and husband, Terry, who now has a life-threatening illness. Can she manage this trial? Can she preserve?
Author: Mary A Gervin Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 99
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Farther on Down the Road is a volume of assorted poetic forms and themes and purposes with a Southern flair. The book celebrates life in its depth, breadth, and beauty, and contains verses from different perspectives from the commonplace to the fanciful to the fantastic. The works evoke a range of emotions from joy to sorrow; from awe to bliss; from concern to glee.
Author: Carol Henderson Publisher: ISBN: 9780996098427 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Carol Henderson tells the spellbinding story of how her one-day writing workshop for bereaved mothers turned into an ongoing journey of self-discovery and healing for 13 women who had lost children. Each woman brought to the group a powerful story of loss and bereavement, and each discovered the sustaining power of reflective writing. The women's stories, harrowing and poignant, are rendered both by Henderson and by the women themselves--the book includes generous portions of their own writing. Farther Along is at once the history of an evolving writers group, and a detailed guide for group leaders and facilitators who are interested in using writing as a tool for healing.
Author: Jonathan Franzen Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 0374708762 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 243
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Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination, "through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew." In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing. On a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there, he doesn't omit mention of his excitement and awe at the pace of China's economic development; the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudice and moral condemnation. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. Farther Away is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.
Author: Anthony C. Gilbert Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1847531504 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 122
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Are any religions true? What is life for? What happens after we die? Cynical, hard-headed reporter Gerok doesn't waste time on such things - till he dies, and suddenly it matters. Being sent to Hell was a shock, but not a surprise: after all, he'd been warned. Being rescued from Hell was the surprise. And that's just the start of an adventure that takes him from the cold depths of Nifleheim to the peaceful heights of the Pure Land of the Sages, to the Old Gods and beyond, to a logical end that has a meaning for us all. By turns poetic, crude, wry, reflective, violent and philosophical, Farther Up and Farther In is a practical man's search for practical answers to the deepest of questions.
Author: E. K. Bailey Publisher: Moody Publishers ISBN: 1575676591 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 257
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Graba front-row seat to God's heart. This is a powerful story that highlights the journey of one of America's leading pastors as he courageously battles cancer three times. Watch him as he puts on his "spiritual boxing gloves." Lovingly co-written with his wife and daughter.
Author: Karen Gryder
Author: Karen Gryder
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