We all go through different trials in our lives, but there can be victory, healing, and redemption of our past. We can move forward and be healthy, happy people, fulfilling our desires and destiny. My prayer is that the words in this book will come alive and you will see just how precious you are to our God and how you too can overcome anything that has hurt you. There is a story in Ezekiel 37 about the valley of dry bones coming to life, and new muscles, tissue, and skin growing; the people were alive again. Do you feel that sometimes you are just spiritually dead and need new life? Sometimes we just need to gain wisdom through someone else's experiences, to see what we have been missing in our own lives. I hope through my experiences you will gain knowledge that will give you revelation into becoming the person you desire to be.
Much has been written about the housing policies of the Depression and the Postwar period. Much less has been written of the houses built as a result of these policies, or the lives of the families who lived in them. Using the houses of Levittown, Long Island, as cultural artifacts, this book examines the relationship between the government-sponsored, mass-produced housing built after World War II, the families who lived in it, and the society that fostered it. Beginning with the basic four-room, slab-based Cape Cods and Ranches, Levittown homeowners invested time and effort, barter and money in the expansion and redesign of their houses. The author shows how this gradual process has altered the socioeconomic nature of the community as well, bringing Levittown fully into the mainstream of middle-class America. This book works on several levels. For planners, it offers a reassessment of the housing policies of the 1940s and '50s, suggesting that important lessons remain to be learned from the Levittown experience. For historians, it offers new insights into the nature of the suburbanization process that followed World War II. And for those who wish to understand the subtle workings of their own domestic space within their lives, it offers food for speculation.
A role model tells her story—and that of the nation and the church. Hallelujah, Anyhow! is the long-awaited memoir of the Rt. Rev. Barbara Harris, the first woman bishop in the Anglican Communion. Edited by Kelly Brown Douglas, Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Seminary and an author and noted theologian in her own right, the book offers previously untold stories and glimpses into Bishop Harris’ childhood and young adult years in her native Philadelphia, as well as her experiences as priest and bishop, both active and actively-retired. A participant in Dr. Martin Luther King’s march from Selma to Montgomery and crucifer at the ordination of the “Philadelphia 11,” Bishop Harris has been eyewitness to national and church history. In the book, she reflects on her experiences with the “racism, sexism, and other ‘isms’ that pervade the life of the church,” while still managing to say, “Hallelujah, Anyhow.” Photographs accompany the text and round out this portrait of a pioneer, respected outside as well as inside the church for her fierce, outspoken, and life-long advocacy for peace and justice.
Gather the Fragments, That None May Be Lost is the fictional story of a small group of young, homeless, mothers living in a shelter in Manhattan who dream of a better life for themselves and their children. The characters are loosely based on a number of single mothers whose lives have intersected with the author's, as students, colleagues, and friends, as well as the clients of a shelter for battered women. The book is the story of their quest to bring their dream of a Mothers' Village to reality.
Most people who struggle with compulsive behaviors want to stop using, but they are continually overcome by their cravings. Kelly has created a framework that helps them clarify their vision of recovery and prevent relapse long term, so that they can move forward with their life with clarity, confidence and peace of mind. This is a guide to 30 days of strategic relapse prevention.Staying Sober: A Workbook for Heroin Relapse Prevention is a relapse prevention and sobriety focused workbook uses universal elements of effective addiction recovery to help people in recovery from heroin substance misuse and other compulsive lifestyles to significantly improve how they prevent relapse so they can walk tall and live free from compulsive disorders. Barbara Kelly's Staying Sober Workbook and relapse prevention guide is the solution to the struggle men and women in recovery face when trying to live lives free from addiction. This revolutionary method for relapse prevention provides people in recovery with a significantly effective strategy to overcome compulsive behaviors. No matter how much you crave or feel compelled to drink alcohol, or use other drugs and addictive behaviors, this Staying Sober Solution will help you to be aware of your environment and be able to prevent relapse way ahead of time. The Staying Sober Workbook does this by setting you up to reprogram your mind through reflective personal questions. This is an effective sobriety solution that will help you to stop your addiction. Relapse prevention need not to be rocket science. This relapse prevention workbook is a simple and easy to understand guide to a happy life that is free from addiction and stronger than the constant threat of relapse. People who use the following models of treatment found this workbook highly beneficial: -Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) -Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) -Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) -Motivational Enhancement and Interviewing-Medication-Assisted Therapies-Interpersonal Therapy-Interpersonal therapy, or IPT-Solution Focused Brief Therapy/Solution Focused Therapy-Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) -AA 12 Step meetings-Complementary TherapiesWhether you are in your early days of your recovery, well advanced with years of sobriety, you have been sober and you relapsed, or you are sober and confident, the Staying Sober Workbook and sobriety solution will forever transform the way you relate to yourself and other people, and most importantly your thought process. This is a guide to freedom from substance abuse disorders, a guide to sobriety.
Exploring the ideas of consensus, resistance and rupture, this book contributes an important and nuanced reflection to the current debate on modernism in music.
The Common Core State Standards have put close reading in the spotlight as never before. While middle and high school teachers want and need students to connect with, analyze, and learn from both literary and informational texts, many are unsure how to foster the skills students must have in order to develop deep and nuanced understanding of complicated content. Is there a process to follow? How is close reading different from shared reading and other common literacy practices? How do you prepare students to have their ability to analyze complex texts measured by high-stakes assessments? And how do you fit close reading instruction and experiences into an already crowded curriculum? Literacy experts Barbara Moss, Diane Lapp, Maria Grant, and Kelly Johnson answer these questions and more as they explain how to teach middle and high school students to be close readers, how to make close reading a habit of practice across the content areas, and why doing so will build content knowledge. Informed by the authors’ extensive field experience and enriched by dozens of real-life scenarios and downloadable tools and templates, this book explores • Text complexity and how to determine if a particular text is right for your learning purposes and your students. • The process and purpose of close reading, with an emphasis on its role in developing the 21st century thinking, speaking, and writing skills essential for academic communication and college and career readiness. • How to plan, teach, and manage close reading sessions across the academic disciplines, including the kinds of questions to ask, texts to use, and supports to provide. • How to assess close reading and help all students—regardless of linguistic, cultural, or academic background—connect deeply with what they read and derive meaning from complex texts. Equipping students with the tools and process of close reading sets them on the road to becoming analytical and critical thinkers—and empowered and independent learners. In this comprehensive resource, you’ll find everything you need to start their journey.
Explore the what, why, and how of close reading to give students in grades 35 the tools they need to be successful. In this must-have guide, teachers will learn the key elements of a close reading lesson as well as strategies for analyzing and selecting a text and how to support students based on their progress and performance. The included lesson template will allow teachers to not only use the provided lessons and texts but also create their own. Correlated to standards, this book includes grade-specific sample close reading lessons and digital copies of teacher and student resources.
Do you believe in a child’s ability to make a difference in their community? Do you see youth as agents of change in the world? We do, too. Micah 6:8 urges us to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God. Guided by this mandate and three child development models (cognitive, social, and spiritual), we have created a practical guide for church leaders to develop a culture of mercy and justice in their church. No matter the size of your congregation, this model will help the Christian educator, youth minister, or pastor who wants to empower their community’s children and youth. Starting in preschool, our Helpers learn the concept of mercy as helping others. By the time they become Co-Creators in high school, they are engaging in justice work that takes on the powers of the world and walking humbly, in solidarity, with the poor and marginalized of the world.
Blessings from the Darkness complied by Kelly J Koch and published by Nicholas Grabowsky with Black Bed Sheet Books and a dedication by G.L. Lentz. For those of you who have never experienced a family illness that completely wipes the family out emotionally and mentally as well as monetarily then you have no idea what it can do to a family. Blessings from the Darkness the brain child of G.L. Lentz for a family that is going through that very thing is so worth every penny spent on it. The thirty plus authors who have given up their stake in the book have written stories, poems and flash fiction that will wrench your very heart out of your chest, put tears in your eyes and make you look at life in ways you never have before. While the book is titled Blessings from the Darkness- it is not all horror stories. There are stories of everyday experiences, thoughts, wishes (some that do not turn out so well) and emotions. "When Angels Fall" will have you weeping as you turn each page and read each line, "The Third Wish" will make one think twice before wanting to deal with a Genie, "Death of a Parent" will cause you to weep. These are just a few of the wonderful writings by up and coming authors and writers who have never been published before- but you need to keep on your radar. This is a book that you will want to add to your library and to read over and over again.
Six short stories to shake you to your core. Out and Back by Barbara Roden An abandoned amusement park attracts unwary thrill seekers The Game of Bear - Reggie Oliver & M. R. James Reggie Oliver completes M. R. James' unfinished classic. Shem-el-Nessim: An Inspiration in Perfume - Chris Bell Venturi - Richard Christian Matheson Party Talk - John Gaskin Princess of the Night - Michael Kelly
Winner Takes All by Dorien Kelly Former NASCAR driver Derek Garner wants only to run his youth program for inner-city kids. But impassioned teacher Claire Sablan has her own ideas for her students…and she never mixes business with pleasure. Except this time she's finding dark and sexy Derek hard to resist. If she's not careful, she'll be giving in to all his ideas—including the one about their future together! From the Outside by Barbara Dunlop The racing world is Caleb Gentry's whole life. But when the top tire changer is assigned to help Olivia Eason with a sports study, life off the track gets a lot more exciting. The upper-crust doc may not be his usual type, but Caleb knows there is more to her than meets the eye. Now all Caleb has to do is show her how good life in the fast lane can be….
The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, the theoretical debates are vividly illustrated by an array of global case studies. This now classic book, has been designed as a comprehensive reader, presenting the best of the now vast body of literature. The book is divided into five parts, incorporating readings from the leading experts and authorities in each field. The result is a unique and extensive discussion, a guide to the evolution of the field, and a vital point of reference for those studying or with a keen interest in women in the development process.
This book is a candid narrative of a tireless warrior and her valor to protect children against the policies of a worldwide religion, one that most people have seen as harmless until now.
When Harpo's great-grandfather, who has Alzheimer's, comes to live with him and his family, Harpo fears that he himself has the disease because he shares his relative's tendency to make things up.
Writing has been in my spirit always. Little did I ever guess these words from God would reach others. The Evidence of Things Not Seen has sprung from a favorite scripture of mine: Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen." God spoke in 2008 to me to pick up the thing I had laid down (writing ) and He would tell me what to write. The God of Israel honors His Word that brings healing, deliverance, wholeness in every area of His children's lives. This same God spoke and I recorded from His mouth to my ear. I am His secretary that takes dictation only. I testify of the worthiness of God to speak to whom He will. Wherever He and His Word appear there is life abundant.
about a woman in denial about her sickness and her need for god to pull her through and give her the strength she need to carry on and try to help others who have sickness and have a hard time coping
this is a story of a young 36 year old woman who looks for love in all the wrong men who only cheat on her and one who promised her true love later to find out he has been seeing another woman
Explore the what, why, and how of close reading to give students in grades K2 the tools they need to be successful. In this must-have guide, teachers will learn the key elements of a close reading lesson as well as strategies for analyzing and selecting a text and how to support students based on their progress and performance. The included lesson template will allow teachers to not only use the provided lessons and texts but also create their own. Correlated to standards, this book includes grade-specific sample close reading lessons and digital copies of teacher and student resources.
john doelan a man who was very wealthy and lost his life for no reason at all he fought very hard to live on dialysis. not knowing that was the place it would all end for him in dialysis with someone there taking his life
Some words of encouragement from the bible, that is put in a poem for those that don't know. and words that are written in away to understand different verses of the bible, and some things of life that need to be told....
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