The Elephant in the Room talks about real-life situations and systemic causes that are often ignored. To heal and move forward in life, those tough discussions must be addressed and dealt with appropriately. The authors share their transparency through their lived experiences and evolutions. This workbook allows the reader to interact with some of the common daily topics. Additionally, it allows the reader to participate and initiate potential steps towards reaching their goals. It is our further hope that the reader is enlightened and encouraged to live their best life.
THE LITTLE GIRL THAT HIDES INSIDE OF ME If you have been hurt in life, there's hope. This book was written to encourage you if you have ever gone through something in your life that made you feel stuck or like you stopped growing because of the pain you felt inside. This book will help you to trust God and believe that He will get you through whatever trial and tribulation you may have had in your life. If you feel that no one cares about you, always remember that God cares about you, and He has a great plan for your life. "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29: 11
Who was Nathaniel Hart? How did he die? Where was he buried? A search for an elusive great, great, great grandfather led instead to the discovery of the long and remarkable life of the wife he left behind. This is the true story of Dinah, a young Jewish wife and mother who was to become the matriarch of a large family. Abandoned in New Zealand with three of her children and a new baby while her husband went to the Goldfields, Dinah’s life could have easily slipped into oblivion. Casting far and wide to find the ever elusive Nathaniel this story uncovers the lives of brothers, sisters and cousins as they all sought to make successful lives in England, Australia, Africa, America and New Zealand. Stories of triumph and disaster, or closely held secrets darkly hinted at, all back dropped by the greater moments in history: glimpses of Queens and presidents, marvels of the Victorian age, victorious campaigns for suffrage, and the enormous personal losses of the Great War. Dinah Hansen, née Nathan, formerly Hart was a woman whose life spanned two hemispheres, who lived in two centuries, who lost a husband and found another, who was brought up in one faith and who finally died, after a long life, in another faith. Yet all she would have wanted was to be like her parents and grandparents before her—to live a long and prosperous life."--Back cover.
Too often our broken hearts hold us back from living extraordinary lives. Transparent and unapologetic, Cynthia exposes the faulty beliefs that once left her feeling worthless, not enough, and shares how "Girl You Got This" helped her to move pass not good enough to more than enough. Sometimes finding your strength means to dig deep and find that hurting little girl on the inside of you and heal her heart. Learning how to love Keith taught me how to love myself, but most importantly, it taught me how to Love God.
A growing body of research informs us that an effective, efficient fight against chronic American poverty, producing benefits far exceeding costs, is possible. It begins by protecting children from developmental risks. This book describes those risks, along with the programs a...
No matter what your age, there is hope. On CBS's On the Road, Steve Hartman told the story of how Howard and Cynthia re-met. CBS Sunday News covered the wedding." -- cover, page [4]
The Power of a Prophetic Mindset is a powerful tool to help you discover the one thing that is missing in your life. That thing that has caused you not to unlock, what has held you back from dominating relationally, professionally, naturally, and spiritually - every area of your life. From the beginning of time God said that you would be powerful. His plan for your life is for you to prosper not just financially but in your mind, body and soul. God thoughts are not like our thoughts and once you tap into his thoughts concerning your life you will experience godly success. When you have God's mind, you have a prophetic mind, when you have a prophetic mind, you have POWER! Get ready to operate in supernatural power and authority.
This illuminating new book presents a series of in-depth case studies from around the world based on numerous personal interviews with organizational leaders and focusing on their journey towards sustainability. The aim is to provide visions of a more sustainable future, and shed light on the path, milestones and solutions – in particular the management processes these organizations employed – to provide a reliable compass that others can follow. Although each organization must take steps to fit its particular circumstance, business conditions and culture, Mapping the Journey proves that valuable lessons can be learned by setting aside critique as to where these organizations may yet make progress and instead focusing on the guidelines, targets, measures of success, tools and techniques and valuable wisdom about how pioneer organisations are travelling toward a prosperous, sustainable future. Each organization included has crafted its own unique strategic responses to an identified need for increased sustainability. While none can be said to have reached the end-point of a sustainable development strategy, all have found that, by addressing the challenge of sustainable industrial practices, they have found innovative solutions, new opportunities for revenue generation, better relationships with customers, new business and product opportunities and a boost to morale from the executive ranks to front-line employees. Mapping the Journey examines both public and private organizations worldwide: SJ Rail of Sweden; Sony Corporation; SC Johnson; TransAlta Corporation; Patagonia; Henkel; Volvo; ASG; Interface Flooring Systems; Suncor; DaimlerChrysler; AssiDoman; Germany's Centre for Technology Assessment and the Dutch National Environmental Policy Plan. These case studies provide an inspiring framework of effective processes for defining a sustainable development strategy and transforming it successfully into actions and results.
From the early days of the American Revolution, the Reverend James Craig, Anglican minister of Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia, preached patriotism to his fellow citizens and supported the war effort by operating his gristmill as a supply depot for the American army. In the summer of 1781, Craig's mill was burned to the ground and his lands laid waste by the infamous British officer Banastre Tarleton, who was leading the storied British Legion on a raid through Southside Virginia. Shortly thereafter, the Lunenburg County citizenry had occasion to formally extol the parson for his "zeal and attachment to the cause of American liberty." But the very cause Craig was supporting was also beginning to loosen the comfortable moorings enjoyed by the Anglican Church as the established church in Virginia. Revolutionary stirrings toward complete separation of church and state were afoot and were to reach a watershed in Virginia in 1786 with legislation that set the erstwhile established church adrift in roiling waters. Stalwart, and as dedicated to his faith as to his country, Reverend Craig helped steer his church on a course where it found a new place in society after the war as the Protestant Episcopal Church. In James Craig, Patriot Parson, Cynthia Mattson shows in lawyerly detail how the life and career of this eighteenth-century clergyman, anchored in Lunenburg County, Virginia, were shaped not only by the "fire and sword" of armed hostilities but more profoundly by the dynamics at work among such figures as Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison in courtrooms, congresses, and legislatures. The author also shows how Reverend Craig, in meeting these challenges, in turn helped preserve and shape his church and community. Yet there was one more dimension to this clergyman's life that reflected historic currents: his participation in the economic life surrounding him. Although parish ministers were provided a house and land to live on, through his own efforts Craig acquired further lands and built the gristmill targeted by British forces during the Revolution. As a prosperous member of Virginia's gentry, however, this man of the cloth was also a slaveholder--thus fully caught up in the great contradiction of America's history: slavery in the land of the free. It would take nearly another century for the festering contradiction to unleash another war, one in which many Craig descendants lost life and property. This part of the James Craig story is also told on these pages. Cynthia Mattson, a resident of Virginia since 1972, received her B.A. from Michigan State University and J.D. from Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America. Mattson served most of her twenty-eight-year career with the federal government as a trial lawyer. She is a member of the Virginia and District of Columbia bars and is admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court. She is also a member of the Virginia Historical Society and the Lunenburg County Historical Society.
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