Author: Maria Goff Publisher: B&H Publishing Group ISBN: 1433648903 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 246
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This is a book about discovering what we really need. There are a lot of second-best options, but we weren’t made to live a second-best life. Finding what we actually need is different than what we are often offered. There are many books full of opinions, steps and programs. This isn’t one of them. This is about craving the things that matter. Things that don’t just work, but last. In a life that may seem to be all fun and games with an endless supply of balloons, author Maria Goff shows how this life is also lived with intentionality, passionate purpose, and a little planning—all of which make a life rich in legacy. But she had to figure out the help she needed first in order to live the beautiful life God wanted for her and wants for us. Love Lives Here is a collection of stories that include the ways Maria and her husband, Bob, navigated family their way, without clear instructions or a road map. It’s about what they learned to make their lives meaningful and whimsical and how they created a space for their family to grow together while they reached outward. "What a gift to read Love Lives Here and find within it a friend who is as authentic and inviting as Maria Goff. Through her earnest telling of the stories of her life, she provides greater meaning to all our lives. We were thrilled to read this book." Donald Miller (bestselling author of Blue Like Jazz and Scary Close) with Betsy Miller "Grace is a contagious force we all crave and Maria contains so much grace it floods you from just a short time with her. May these pages overwhelm you with God’s love, and hope that Maria knows so well." Jennie Allen, Founder of IF: Gathering and Author of Nothing to Prove
Author: David R. Jones Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1685179037 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 173
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True Love Lives Here is a true love story that takes us from two persons who had given up on love as something only found in fairy tales and romantic stories, to the heights of true love and beyond. David and Sharon were on different roads that through the twists and turns of life had crossed many times, but they never realized what God had planned. Each having given up on love, they both were apprehensive of sharing their lives with another until a series of synchronistic events brought them together. With their hope and faith in God, they learned to trust then love each other. They find that true love is a manifestation of God's love for us. Their story takes us through having given up on love, to finding their true love, to the heights of what true love can be. After losing his wife, his one and only true love, David fought a long battle out of the darkness of despair to find that the brilliant light of true love never ends. We pray this book helps you to find hope and faith in God. That it helps you to see the love that God gives us in our hearts, to never take love for one another for granted. To find hope and comfort in even the darkest despair. Showing your loved ones never really left. That God's love will shine a light to find your way back to the true love you thought was lost.
Author: Debra K. Fileta Publisher: Zondervan ISBN: 0310336805 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 212
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It is possible to find true love through dating. In True Love Dates, Debra Fileta encourages singles not to "kiss dating goodbye" but instead to experience a season of dating as a way to find real love. Through powerful, real-life stories and Fileta's personal journey, this book offers profound insights from the expertise of a professional counselor. Christians are looking for answers to finding true love. They are disillusioned with the church that has provided little practical application in the area of love and relationships. They're bombarded by Christian books that shun dating, idolize courting, fixate on spirituality, and in the end, offer little real relationship help. True Love Dates provides honest help for dating by providing a guide into vital relationship essentials. Debra is a professional Christian counselor who reaches millions with her popular blog, Truelovedates.com, and her book offers sound advice grounded in Christian spirituality. She delivers insight, direction, and counsel when it comes to entering the world of dating and learning to do it right the first time around. Drawing on the stories and struggles of hundreds of young men and women who have pursued the search for true love, Fileta helps readers bypass unnecessary pain while focusing on the things that really matter in the world of dating.
Author: Sheila R. Rule Publisher: Think Outside the Cell Foundation/Resilience Multimedia ISBN: 9780979159916 Category : Interpersonal relations Languages : en Pages : 0
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In their own words, the incarcerated, the formerly incarcerated, and those who love them in this moving anthology explore the complex realities of marriages and relationships lived in the long shadow of prison. Defying the frightening myths and stereotypes to which the media and society have reduced them, the people in this collection eloquently tell their own stories and speak their own truths. Love Lives Here, Too is a place where society can fully hear and see those who know prison's shadow. It is an important book that belongs on every shelf, for anyone who reads these stories will discover that it is not "us" against "them," but simply "us." Millions of people in the United States are in prison or have prison in their past Yet this population is largely ignored by society until a well-publicized crime by one person casts the wide net of demonization over them all, and over the people who love them. Dehumanized and stereotyped, these men, women, and families experience persistent, crippling disadvantages and discrimination that, few others in our society face. But behind, the stereotypes, hearts beat and yearn, break and endure. Deaths are grieved and births are celebrated. Bonds shatter; wounds heal. Hopes are realized, and dreams are trampled. Mistakes and bad choices are made. So, too, are wise decisions and hard-won transformations. Loneliness creeps here. Joy dances here. Love lives here, too. Behind the stereotypes and myths, real people live. I hope that people who know prison's shadow find in these pages and in all of the hooks in The Think Outside the Cell Series a reflection of their own unique personal power, and that they are encouraged to tell their own stories. I hope, too, that through these stories and others like them, the larger society comes to appropriate what those who know these men, women, and families already see-their value and humanity. Book jacket.
Author: Gary Shteyngart Publisher: Random House ISBN: 067960359X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 353
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Seattle Times • O: The Oprah Magazine • Maureen Corrigan, NPR • Salon • Slate • Minneapolis Star Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Kansas City Star • Charlotte Observer • The Globe and Mail • Vancouver Sun • Montreal Gazette • Kirkus Reviews In the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of an Russian immigrant janitor and ardent fan of “printed, bound media artifacts” (aka books), meets Eunice Park, an impossibly cute Korean American woman with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness. Could falling in love redeem a planet falling apart?
Author: Daphne Rose Kingma Publisher: Conari Press ISBN: 9781573245647 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 234
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Shows readers how to prepare themselves emotionally and spiritually as a prerequisite to a fulfilling relationship, through cultivating four essential qualities of the soul--faith, intention, trust, and surrender. By the author of A Lifetime of Love. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
Author: Sarah Gerard Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062937421 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
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A Glamour Best Book of 2020 • A Bustle Best Books of 2020 • Winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award • An Entertainment Weekly 30 Hottest Book of the Summer • A Refinery29 25 Book You’ll Want To Read This Summer Selection • A Chicago Review of Books 10 Must-Read Books of the Month • A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Shondaland 15 Hot Books for Summer One of today’s most provocative literary writers—the author of the critically-acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Binary Star—captures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in a dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump. Nina is a struggling writer, a college drop-out, a liar, and a cheater. More than anything she wants love. She deserves it. From the burned-out suburbs of Florida to the anonymous squalor of New York City, she eats through an incestuous cast of characters in search of it: her mother, a narcissistic lesbian living in a nudist polycule; Odessa, a single mom with even worse taste in men than Nina; Seth, an artist whose latest show is comprised of three Tupperware containers full of trash; Brian, whose roller-coaster affair with Nina is the most stable “relationship” in his life; and Aaron, an aspiring filmmaker living at home with his parents, with whom Nina begins to write her magnum opus. Nina’s quest for fulfillment is at once darkly comedic, acerbically acute, and painfully human—a scathing critique of contemporary society, and a tender examination of our anguished yearning for connection in an era defined by detachment.
Author: Teri Riggs Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781517194277 Category : Languages : en Pages : 98
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Samantha has mourned the tragic Christmas Eve death of her husband for three years. During that time, she's moved to a home in the small seaside town of Heaven's Beach, has made plenty of new friends, and owns the local art gallery. She should be happy. Instead, she misses Josh, the love of her life, to the point of distraction. To make matters worse, her mind seems to be playing tricks on her lately and she begins to see images that can't possibly be real. With the help of her friends and mother in law, Sami has finally decided it's time to pullher life together once and for all. But is it ever truly possible to move on? Or is it a fact that True Love Never Dies?
Author: Guy McKanna Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 9781257659708 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 109
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Learn more about love than most people ever know in their life and how to find your true love. This break-through book reveals 10 secrets, or truths, of love and how to apply them to find your soul mate, your true love. It's packed with practical tips that show how to free yourself from pain, from the fear of being alone, of how to love without clinging and much more. It can even help you improve an existing relationship. The secrets it reveals includes the world's best kept sex secret, which once you know will lead to deeper and more love than you've ever experienced. Praise for How to Find True Love includes: The best engagement or wedding present you can give someone! Helped me find my soul mate! The closest thing to a guide or text book to love Helped me to find love again No fluff here, just practical tips to make you love life better One of the best gifts you can give someone - or yourself - true love
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