To Heal Your Child’s Broken Heart, Start with Hope How can you help your child get through a deeply painful loss—the breakup of a family, the death of a pet, or even the passing of a loved one—especially when you might be dealing with your own grief? God sees your family’s pain and longs to walk through it with you. It’s one of the reasons He sent His Son, Jesus—to heal our broken hearts. Most important, God wants to give your child hope. Dr. Amy Ford is a licensed professional counselor, professor, and parent who specializes in complex psychological issues, including trauma and grief. She offers spiritual encouragement from God’s Word and expert advice to address your child’s specific needs. You will gain the wisdom, skills, and practical ideas you need to help your child during this difficult time. Grieving can be a long and difficult process, especially for children, but with God’s help and the loving support of friends and family, grief can give way to new life. Your child will get through this…and so will you.
Discover your place in the pro-life movement. What if we lived in a world where every woman with an unplanned pregnancy always felt empowered to choose life for her unborn baby? To create that kind of change, it will take all of us. As the church, we can play a powerful role in making abortion unthinkable. With Help Her Be Brave, you can discover your part in saving lives and find your pro-life passion. This includes how to: Learn practical ways to get involved using your unique gifts and talents Find women with unexpected pregnancies and connect them to support Use your influence and be a voice for the voiceless Make your church a refuge for abortion vulnerable women If abortion became illegal today, the church isn’t ready to help women practically, spiritually and emotionally. It’s time to change that. We can’t look away any longer. This is our moment for us to stand up and help her be brave.
A hope-filled collection of real life stories by inspiring young girls from different backgrounds who all experienced God's grace and redemption in their journeys through unplanned pregnancy.
After the death of her mother, Kay Seger abandons her career as a historical consultant to a Los Angeles film company and returns to her childhood home in Michigan. There, she rekindles a teenage love affair with Joe Chase, now a Vietnam War veteran and Ford auto worker. Afflicted by grief and the mysterious symptoms of an unidentified ailment, Kay, at Joe's urging, begins an investigation of her family's past. As Kay pores over the boxes of papers, letters, and photo albums her mother left behind, vivid recollections of a bygone Detroit, ragged and teeming at the start of the automotive age, come to life alongside snapshots of Michigan's rural western counties after the settlement of the frontier. In the midst of her searches, Kay comes across the long-forgotten medical history of nostalgia, and it is this new knowledge that helps her to recover the lost histories of her family and find a resolution to her troubled relationship with Joe. An exploration of memory as both pathology and promise, Ford Roadoffers a moving examination of the injuries we inflict on the people closest to us, the worldly injuries that are often beyond our control, and our astonishing ability to act upon and inhabit our own stories. It is also a meditation on American car culture, the road, and the role of early Hollywood in the creation of America's vision of itself. Written in spare, evocative prose, historian Amy Kenyon's first novel is as heartbreaking as it is thought-provoking.
A real world guide for White parents who are raising Black children. The author is the adoptive mother of three African American daughters, with first-hand experience of the challenges of interracial parenting. She addresses a multitude of concerns including basic skin and hair care, racial socialization, accepting white privilege, and ways to celebrate the diversity of your family.
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Contains a state-by-state review of 2008 legislative action addressing the problems of domestic violence and the needs of its victims and their children. Each state entry includes information on legislative sessions and actions including criminal penalties and procedures, civil orders for protection, prevention and treatment, family and children, and other related legislation. Includes charts of legislative trends and legislative activity in 2008, and information on state domestic violence coalitions and state legislative contacts.
Devotion is a big baggy word, both in its forms of application and the things to which it is given. I am devoted to my husband and my three o'clock tea; to my children, my writing, and being on time. Whatever its uses, it implies an uncommon level of love and loyalty. We in Christendom use the word frequently in our own language: my devotional book; my devotional time. We know it usually refers to a scripture and meditations on it. This is a devotional book. Not because it fits the format, but because it is about love and loyalty. It is one simple woman's everyday devotion to a complex and multi-faceted God. It is a harbor for reflections and confessions, a closet of prayer and praise. It is for women, for mothers, for worshipers and thinkers, for skeptics and lovers of God.
This book is an excellent companion for anyone that needs healing. You can use it at any time of the day for more stability and purpose. The book aims to heal your energy and get you more in tune with yourself and your thoughts. You can work on your courage, stability, confidence, compassion and much more. You can read the affirmations aloud or you can say them to yourself. You must really believe the statements as you say them because they are all true. There is no jargon or cheesiness in this book. It is a self care book that is for realists and people that really want to live their best lives. We have full control over our thoughts. If we put good in, we will get good out.
In the small town of Mars Hill, everyone is family. So when a young prosecutor arrives from the city, tasked with collecting property taxes from a deceased farmer's son, she must prove both her professional and personal skills. For Medina Sage, however, discovery ventures beyond a court proceeding into her own understanding of herself and the world around her. Can old family and new friends help her find the truth and summon the courage to pursue it?
Each of these historical novellas is set on the open plains when saying "I do" also most often meant committing to a life of hard work against the backbreaking soil. But, love has the ability to shine over any circumstance and light the bride's eyes with sparkles of hope.
Women of the White House looks at the work, lives and times of the 47 women officially recognized as America's first lady. Through portraits, photographs, accounts and profiles, the book examines their contributions to the presidencies they supported and to the 230-year history of the role. The women who have held the position have evolved it from White House hostess to campaigner for social causes and a game-changing leadership position. A role model for the world, a powerful political player, a traditional yet modern woman – the position of first lady of the United States is many-faceted, complex and beyond high profile. In this fully up-to-date book, Amy Russo explores how the social platforms these women established – from Mary Todd Lincoln's work for slaves and soldiers after the Civil War to feminist icon Michelle Obama's fight for girls' education – have not only made the role iconic but also shaped America.
A brief introduction to the life of the president and the construction, contents and exhibits of the Gerald R. Ford Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
This beloved New York Times bestselling memoir from "Ask Amy" is a warm and moving true story of second chances in a tiny upstate New York town. Dear Amy, First my husband told me he didn't love me. Then he said he didn't think he had ever really loved me. Then he left me with a baby to raise by myself. Amy, I don't want to be a single mother. I told myself I'd never be divorced. And now here I am -- exactly where I didn't want to be! My daughter and I live in London. We don't really have any friends here. What should we do? Desperate Dear Desperate, I have an idea. Take your baby, get on a plane, and move back to your dinky hometown in upstate New York -- the place you couldn't wait to leave when you were young. Live with your sister in the back bedroom of her tiny bungalow. Cry for five weeks. Nestle in with your quirky family of hometown women -- many of them single, like you. Drink lots of coffee and ask them what to do. Do your best to listen to their advice but don't necessarily follow it. Start to work in Washington, D.C. Start to date. Make friends. Fail up. Develop a career as a job doula. Teach nursery school and Sunday School. Watch your daughter grow. When she's a teenager, just when you're both getting comfortable, uproot her and move to Chicago to take a job writing a nationally syndicated advice column. Do your best to replace a legend. Date some more. Love fiercely. Laugh with abandon. Grab your second chance -- and your third, and your fourth. Send your daughter to college. Cry for five more weeks. Move back again to your dinky hometown and the women who helped raise you. Find love, finally. And take care. Amy
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