Rediscover this classic romance novel about a very special wedding dress and a twist of fate, only from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Shelly Hansen was horrified when her great-aunt’s wedding dress arrived—because, according to family legend, she was destined to marry the next man she met. So when she tripped on an escalator and fell into Mark Brady’s arms, she told him—and herself—that she wasn’t interested in marriage. But then she started seeing him everywhere…. Coincidence? First published in 1992.
And The House Was Filled; The radicalness of God's Grace is a 10 chapter book that looks at Mary of Bethany and compares her sacrifice of pure nard to a modern day Mary who went through chemo while pregnant and radiation and delivers a 4.0 lb baby girl. Watch as her prayer partner soaks up all God has in store for her. It is life changing for the author. It parallels Mary of Bethany and her sacrifice. Both gave what they had, not what they didn't.
The Russian Revolution and Civil War that followed it from 1918 to 1922 irrevocably altered a nation that had existed for one thousand years. Over the next decades, the annihilation and exile of millions of people continued this process of radical alteration until what existed little resembled what had been. Millions of Russians left their homeland for what they thought was temporary exile, dispersing to Western and Eastern Europe, China, Japan, Australia, and North and South America. Most had to struggle to survive but they refused to abandon their heritage and took their history, language, and culture with them into exile.This is the story of the noble Ukhtomsky family, descendants of Rurik, the first ruler of Rus' in the year 862. The Ukhtomskys, originally from the northern reaches of Rus', were also descended from the Belozersk Princes, cousins of the Muscovy Princes, whose rule of Russia ended with Ivan the Terrible.In the 19th century, a branch of the Ukhtomsky family lived in the Simbirsk Province on the Volga River. They sought to effect positive social change on a grassroots level through education, building local schools, and strove to counteract the effects of endemic poverty by establishing hospitals and social services for the peasantry in their home province.Prince Nikolay Alexandrovich Ukhtomsky, the author's maternal grandfather, fought in World War I and the Russian Civil War, battling the Bolsheviks in the Volga Region, from Simbirsk to Kazan, and in the Urals with Admiral Alexander Kolchak's Armies. He and his family were eventually forced to flee Russia and, with the assistance of the Czech and Slovak Legion, the Ukhtomsky family made their way to Harbin, China, accompanied by the noble Golitsyn family. In exile, Prince Ukhtomsky worked as a journalist in Harbin, Berlin and Paris and in his work and travels, he associated with various factions of the Russian Diaspora as they attempted to either battle or come to terms with the Bolshevik regime. Branded as an enemy of Soviet Russia, Prince Ukhtomsky was arrested by SMERSH, its dreaded counterintelligence agency, which sought out and arrested thousands of Russian émigrés after the war. In 1946, the Soviet government held their version of the Nuremberg Trials, which included Prince Ukhtomsky as one of the eight defendants. It was referred to as the "Semenov Trial" after the chief defendant, Cossack Ataman Gregory Semenov. The trial was covered by reporters from Western news agencies, and, in the post-World War II atmosphere, when "Uncle Joe" Stalin was still considered an ally of the West, the legal right of the Soviet government to prosecute Prince Ukhtomsky was not even questioned.The author's study of her family history actually began when she, at the request of her father, traveled to Ukraine to meet his family. The Bogdanovs, although of peasant origin, also suffered greatly under the Soviet regime in the period leading up to World War II. The author's father was taken to Germany by the Nazi authorities under the infamous Ostarbeiter program, which forced Ukrainian youths to work in labor camps for the Reich.In her quest to learn her family's lost history, Nina Bogdan traveled throughout Russia, Ukraine and China, even to Vorkuta, location of one of the Soviet Union's most horrific GULag camps where her grandfather was imprisoned. In this epic tale, the author tells the thousand-year saga of her Russian family, intertwining it with her own impressions of modern Russia, whose people are struggling in the aftermath of the implosion of the Soviet empire and attempting to come to terms with the consequences of the actions of a murderous regime that, in the course of 70 years, wiped out some of the best and brightest people in that nation's history.
There's not one person that at some time hasn't gone through some kind of trial. Suffering has a way of making us self-centered, but the fact is we are not the only ones suffering. Our family and friends are hurting for us. They're praying for us and going out of their way and taking up their time to help out however they can. For a lot of us, their suffering hurts us more than what we are going through. At some point, we start questioning God and wondering why God has forsaken us. God has a time and a purpose for our tribulations. This book was written to help you understand God loves you. You need to take your trials and pain to him. His grace will comfort you. The hope is that this book will encourage you to look for the blessings you can receive through trials.
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