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Author: Darla Madsen Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1525517902 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 137
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As foster parents of 70 children over 12 years, we are sharing our personal experiences of the conditions and circumstances of why the children came into our care. Unless you’ve been a foster parent, I don’t believe anyone can really understand what the children and foster parents go through! My husband and myself along with our two children, endured the joys and heartaches of being foster parents. Our social system is broken and the children in care are suffering for it. Parents are neglecting and physically, mentally and sexually abusing their children, with little to no consequence’s! We experienced children coming into our home in the middle of the night, covered in their mother’s blood, after witnessing their father stabbing her repeatedly. Our greatest challenge as foster parents was saying goodbye. If they were going home to a loving family we were happy for them. but many times that wasn’t the case. Often they were bounced from foster home to foster home, year after year. That’s where the system failed them. We’re still friends with many of our foster children, who are adults now. Their asking themselves, “Why me?”
Author: Darla Madsen Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1525517902 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 137
Book Description
As foster parents of 70 children over 12 years, we are sharing our personal experiences of the conditions and circumstances of why the children came into our care. Unless you’ve been a foster parent, I don’t believe anyone can really understand what the children and foster parents go through! My husband and myself along with our two children, endured the joys and heartaches of being foster parents. Our social system is broken and the children in care are suffering for it. Parents are neglecting and physically, mentally and sexually abusing their children, with little to no consequence’s! We experienced children coming into our home in the middle of the night, covered in their mother’s blood, after witnessing their father stabbing her repeatedly. Our greatest challenge as foster parents was saying goodbye. If they were going home to a loving family we were happy for them. but many times that wasn’t the case. Often they were bounced from foster home to foster home, year after year. That’s where the system failed them. We’re still friends with many of our foster children, who are adults now. Their asking themselves, “Why me?”
Author: Guy Winch Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501120131 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 128
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Imagine if we treated broken hearts with the same respect and concern we have for broken arms? Psychologist Guy Winch urges us to rethink the way we deal with emotional pain, offering warm, wise, and witty advice for the broken-hearted. Real heartbreak is unmistakable. We think of nothing else. We feel nothing else. We care about nothing else. Yet while we wouldn’t expect someone to return to daily activities immediately after suffering a broken limb, heartbroken people are expected to function normally in their lives, despite the emotional pain they feel. Now psychologist Guy Winch imagines how different things would be if we paid more attention to this unique emotion—if only we can understand how heartbreak works, we can begin to fix it. Through compelling research and new scientific studies, Winch reveals how and why heartbreak impacts our brain and our behavior in dramatic and unexpected ways, regardless of our age. Emotional pain lowers our ability to reason, to think creatively, to problem solve, and to function at our best. In How to Fix a Broken Heart he focuses on two types of emotional pain—romantic heartbreak and the heartbreak that results from the loss of a cherished pet. These experiences are both accompanied by severe grief responses, yet they are not deemed as important as, for example, a formal divorce or the loss of a close relative. As a result, we are often deprived of the recognition, support, and compassion afforded to those whose heartbreak is considered more significant. Our heart might be broken, but we do not have to break with it. Winch reveals that recovering from heartbreak always starts with a decision, a determination to move on when our mind is fighting to keep us stuck. We can take control of our lives and our minds and put ourselves on the path to healing. Winch offers a toolkit on how to handle and cope with a broken heart and how to, eventually, move on.
Author: Diana Wallis Publisher: Kregel Publications ISBN: 9780825498596 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 404
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This collection of brief devotionals spans the centuries, sampling works from Augustine to Wesley, Bernard of Clairvaux to Charles H. Spurgeon.
Author: Joanne Bischof Publisher: Multnomah ISBN: 1601424248 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 354
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Gideon O’Riley has two wives—but he doesn’t know it. Settling into a simple life in the majestic Blue Ridge mountains, Lonnie and Gideon O’Riley have finally found happiness after the rocky start to their marriage. The roguish bluegrass musician has fallen in love with his gentle wife and the God she serves, and Lonnie rests secure in his tenderness for her and their young son. A heartless ruse interupts their peace, bringing them back to Rocky Knob—and forces them to face the claims of Cassie Allan, a woman who says she is Gideon’s rightful wife. As Gideon wades into the depths of his past choices, Lonnie is stunned by the revelations. She has no choice but to navigate this new path, knowing that surviving the devastating blow will take every ounce of strength she has. While Gideon’s guilt and his bitterness towards Cassie threatens to burn up his fledgling faith, Lonnie wrestles to find the courage to trust the God who brought them together in the first place. Will their hard-earned love be able to conquer all? Lonnie only wanted her husband’s love. Now that he belongs to another, can she surrender Gideon to a God with a bigger plan?
Author: Cheryl Knoll Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc. ISBN: 1685262597 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 136
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I’m sure there are many people like me with hidden hills in their lives. Some upward climbs, some downward slides. Some look back to see how far you’ve come. There are some beautiful things in the hidden hills, also some weariness. We lose people we love, and they stay somewhere in those hills. People come and go in our hills. We seem to come upon patches of flowers we admire and some we choose. Then there are the birds, so many beautiful birds. It is amazing to watch a big hawk ride the current for a long ride and not even flap its wings until it runs out of current or hits a little turbulence. That happens to a lot of people. We ride the wind, and then sometimes you must help yourself stay up when the current stops or when we hit a rough patch. We grow through our experiences in our hidden hills, and we are better for what we’ve been through. God is always with us on our journeys and in our dealings in those hills. Keep a tight hold of his hand. I do. God’s hands are always reaching out for you. The feelings he will give back to you are amazing. There is some daydreaming here and there in those hills. A sprinkle here and a spoonful there help make some things in life more palatable. Just don’t overdo it. A little daydreaming and a lot of living life, that’s a good balance. Let your scales always weigh on the heavy side when it comes to God. His weight brings blessings. God is not hiding in the hidden hills. He is everywhere for everyone who is looking for him.
Author: Jacqueline Firkins Publisher: Clarion Books ISBN: 1328635198 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 385
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Living with her aunt's family in Mansfield, Massachusetts, for a few months before turning eighteen and starting college, Edie is torn between Sebastian, the boy next door, and playboy Henry.--
Author: Rhonda Kulczyk Publisher: ISBN: 9780998832753 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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"It takes a strong heart to love, but it takes an even stronger heart to love again after it's been broken."Broken. There are defining moments in life. Moments that change the very essence of who you are. Moments you wish you could relive. The day I lost my brother was one of those moments. His beautiful life stolen from him, and I was responsible.Forgive yourself, people would say.Forgive myself? How could I? I was alive and he was not. It was a question that plagued my mind day after day. Forgive myself for a terrible decision? Forgive myself for not understanding the ramifications of a wrong choice? My neighbor Gloria once said, "You can't reach what's in front of you, Gracie Watts, until you let go of what's behind you." And she was right. In the end, I've come to learn that life is full of experiences. Experiences of triumph and devastation loss. And yet each one of these experiences are vital lessons. Letting go isn't about forgetting; it's about learning and moving on. It's making a choice to be strengthened by my past, instead of strangled by it. It's finding the courage to let go of what I cannot change. Strength is letting go when you want hold on. And courage--courage is moving forward even though you fear what's ahead. Perhaps strength doesn't reside in never having been broken, but in the courage to grow strong in the broken places.
Author: Erin Miler Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1304630331 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 147
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Come with Erin Miller on her journey through life, filled with torture, wonder, love, heartbreak, sorrow, and more. This makes a great coffee table book of poetry and prose, but be wary, this collection isn't for the faint of heart.
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