Inspiring and educational, here is a family or classroom daily devotional where spiritual lessons can be learned from the animal kingdom through poetry, related Bible verses, and thought-provoking discussion questions.
Food. Ah! Both the pleasure and the bane of our existence! Many poets have written about food, both seriously and with humor. Perhaps the humorous angle can lead us into more serious contemplation. That is my observation. The first section of poems is titled Silliness. It begins with the title poem, "The Obstinate Apple." An apple that would not let someone eat it. Really? True story. Many of these silly poems come from experiences with children who are prone to playing with their food. Ever think you could learn something from food? Next, we venture into Simple Life Logic, where food can reach out with a bite of life lived along the way. And finally, if you are up to it, food can actually do a little Sermonizing. Here are poems that emphasize Biblical truths. These poems will give you something to chew on.
Life comes with its share of perils: family drama, physical trauma, betrayal, pain, death, and plain trouble, trouble, trouble. We've all been there. Just as it takes time to form a pearl from irritation and pressure, finding hope and healing from the pain of life is a process. Here are poems to encourage you as you experience the making of your precious pearls.
Anyone who grew up in the 50's in most any small town will relate to these poems, photos, and brief accounts of life back then. The Longview '23 Club is a social organization originally formed by lineal descendants of the founders of Longview but is now open to all who share a love for the city, its beauty and history. Each year the club holds a dinner meeting in October with a theme and program coordinated by the president. In 2017 president Carolyn Caines has gathered memories from members of the club. What was it like to grow up in Longview in the 1950's? Enjoy a look at the city of Longview, Washington as told by members of the Longview '23 Club.
I began MY SUBSTITUTE LIFE instead of retiring after twenty-five years in the classroom. This book of poetry is inspired by the next five years of my new life as a substitute teacher.
Who hasn't once thought how lovely it would be to bring home the sunshine in your suitcase? In this volume of poetry you can share the feeling of standing near a volcano, riding a catamaran in Hawaii, or eating reindeer stew in Finland. You may swim with turtles, go parasailing, or climb the Eiffel Tower. Even as travel photos evoke memories of places you have been, so do lines of poetry. They stir up the joy and laughter of another time and even cause one to contemplate new revelations or mysteries discovered along the way. I'll take a patch of blue sky to sew into this gray morning, a warm breeze around my shoulders, a bit of sun-washed sand under my feet when I get up. Why can't I bring home paradise? I'd let you feel it before it sinks back into the lining of my suitcase.
It is the year 1905 in the village of Puolanka, Finland. More and more young men and women are pulling up roots and following the lure of land and a new life in America. Here we meet headstrong Reeta, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a landowning family. Her mother is upset with her because she shows no interest in the eligible young men of their social class. Thomas Juntunen has convinced Reeta's two older brothers that they should go to America with him. Reeta's parents, however, send Thomas away when he professes his love for her, because he is merely a tenant farmer. Reeta must choose whether to obey her parents or follow her heart. Could God change their minds? Is it really love she feels for Thomas? And is she brave enough to leave her parents and homeland? There would be no going back. Reeta's PASSAGE TO LOVE is one of self-discovery and of faith that is tried every step of the way.
IN THE NOISELESS NIGHT, memories come back that have been scattered through the years. They are waiting now to be excused properly, perhaps even to be resized, making them more manageable. If you remember your first black-and-white television program, have ever sat at a soda fountain on a red, spinning barstool, or had your hair done up in pin curls, you are a child of the fifties. Here is childhood remembered in poetry.
Charity Joy travels to Oregon with her family, expecting to assist her father in sharing God's message with the natives. When she returns to her family in Boston over two years later, she has no memory of what happened since leaving. The small box she brings back, containing a native headband and a ring, leave her confused. Trying to remember brings horrific fear. When her doctor and aunt decide she needs to start life anew, her aunt takes her to England for a Season and to reconnect with her now married sister who travelled to England rather than west with her family. Even in England, Charity finds her past a frightening void. By the time memories and nightmares merge, she finds her heart engaged by the Duke St. Clair. But how can she marry until her past is made clear? When shocked into fully remembering, Charity finds her past and present clashing. Will she find wholeness in knowing the truth or will that truth destroy her future, her faith...and her love forever?
Developed in partnership with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and edited by Ronald A. Navarro, MD, FAAOS, FAOA (editor) and Carolyn M. Hettrich, MD, MPH, FAAOS (assistant editor), Instructional Course Lectures, Volume 73 offers current, clinically relevant information across a broad spectrum of orthopaedic topics. These lectures were written by the orthopaedic surgeons who presented at the 2023 AAOS Annual Meeting. This all-new volume covers topics such as: • From Platelet-Rich Plasma to Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Cartilage Regeneration With Orthobiologics • Patient Reported Outcome Measures – How to Get the Most Out of Them and Mitigate Health Care Disparities • Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health to Address Health-Related Social Needs and Optimize Risk-Based Value in Orthopaedic Surgery • Peri-articular Injection and Peripheral Nerve Blocks With Standard Agents • Management of Acute Diabetic Ankle Fractures • And many more
Francis of Assisi's reported reception of the stigmata on Mount La Verna in 1224 is almost universally considered to be the first documented account of an individual miraculously and physically receiving the five wounds of Christ. The early thirteenth-century appearance of this miracle, however, is not as unexpected as it first seems. Interpretations of Galatians 6:17—I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ in my body—had been circulating since the early Middle Ages in biblical commentaries. These works perceived those with the stigmata as metaphorical representations of martyrs bearing the marks of persecution in order to spread the teaching of Christ in the face of resistance. By the seventh century, the meaning of Galatians 6:17 had been appropriated by bishops and priests as a sign or mark of Christ that they received invisibly at their ordination. Priests and bishops came to be compared to soldiers of Christ, who bore the brand (stigmata) of God on their bodies, just like Roman soldiers who were branded with the name of their emperor. By the early twelfth century, crusaders were said to bear the actual marks of the passion in death and even sometimes as they entered into battle. The Stigmata in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe traces the birth and evolution of religious stigmata and particularly of stigmatic theology, as understood through the ensemble of theological discussions and devotional practices. Carolyn Muessig assesses the role stigmatics played in medieval and early modern religious culture, and the way their contemporaries reacted to them. The period studied covers the dominant discourse of stigmatic theology: that is, from Peter Damian's eleventh-century theological writings to 1630 when the papacy officially recognised the authenticity of Catherine of Siena's stigmata.
As archaeologists peel away the jungle covering that has both obscured and preserved the ancient Maya cities of Mexico and Central America, other scholars have only a limited time to study and understand the sites before the jungle, weather, and human encroachment efface them again, perhaps forever. This urgency underlies Yaxchilan: The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City, Carolyn Tate's comprehensive catalog and analysis of all the city's extant buildings and sculptures. During a year of field work, Tate fully documented the appearance of the site as of 1987. For each sculpture and building, she records its discovery, present location, condition, measurements, and astronomical orientation and reconstructs its Long Counts and Julian dates from Calendar Rounds. Line drawings and photographs provide a visual document of the art and architecture of Yaxchilan. More than mere documentation, however, the book explores the phenomenon of art within Maya society. Tate establishes a general framework of cultural practices, spiritual beliefs, and knowledge likely to have been shared by eighth-century Maya people. The process of making public art is considered in relation to other modes of aesthetic expression, such as oral tradition and ritual. This kind of analysis is new in Maya studies and offers fresh insight into the function of these magnificent cities and the powerful role public art and architecture play in establishing cultural norms, in education in a semiliterate society, and in developing the personal and community identities of individuals. Several chapters cover the specifics of art and iconography at Yaxchilan as a basis for examining the creation of the city in the Late Classic period. Individual sculptures are attributed to the hands of single artists and workshops, thus aiding in dating several of the monuments. The significance of headdresses, backracks, and other costume elements seen on monuments is tied to specific rituals and fashions, and influence from other sites is traced. These analyses lead to a history of the design of the city under the reigns of Shield Jaguar (A.D. 681-741) and Bird Jaguar IV (A.D. 752-772). In Tate's view, Yaxchilan and other Maya cities were designed as both a theater for ritual activities and a nexus of public art and social structures that were crucial in defining the self within Maya society.
Anyone who grew up in the 50's in most any small town will relate to these poems, photos, and brief accounts of life back then. The Longview '23 Club is a social organization originally formed by lineal descendants of the founders of Longview but is now open to all who share a love for the city, its beauty and history. Each year the club holds a dinner meeting in October with a theme and program coordinated by the president. In 2017 president Carolyn Caines has gathered memories from members of the club. What was it like to grow up in Longview in the 1950's? Enjoy a look at the city of Longview, Washington as told by members of the Longview '23 Club.
Food. Ah! Both the pleasure and the bane of our existence! Many poets have written about food, both seriously and with humor. Perhaps the humorous angle can lead us into more serious contemplation. That is my observation. The first section of poems is titled Silliness. It begins with the title poem, "The Obstinate Apple." An apple that would not let someone eat it. Really? True story. Many of these silly poems come from experiences with children who are prone to playing with their food. Ever think you could learn something from food? Next, we venture into Simple Life Logic, where food can reach out with a bite of life lived along the way. And finally, if you are up to it, food can actually do a little Sermonizing. Here are poems that emphasize Biblical truths. These poems will give you something to chew on.
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