A Year-Long Celebration of Faith Sometimes an encouraging word can turn your whole day around. Other times, all you need is a good laugh. Then there are times a personal insight lets you know that you are not alone. Or a bit of wisdom connects God's Word to your everyday life. You'll find them all in the Women of Faith Daily Devotional. This beautiful, warmly written book illuminates twelve aspects of faith that will help you start the year with hope and finish it in peace. With 366 brand new devotions, the Women of Faith Daily Devotional is filled with the best heart-to-heart writings of six women who have strengthened and inspired thousands of readers. Patsy Clairmont, Barbara Johnson, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll, Sheila Walsh, and Thelma Wells open up their lives to share with you the bright, the amusing, the painful, and the hard-won wisdom they contain. You'll treasure this wise and encouraging book. Spend a quiet moment with it each day to renew your spirit and connect with God.
I can think of no other anthology which celebrates with such intensity the entire drama of the Christian faith. Here we have a host of poets praising God, and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest.' A Widening Light moves the reader through recognitions and meditations toward prayer." (Harold Fickett) "Luci Shaw has compiled perceptions both delicate and powerful of Jesus the 'baby prince, ' the Man, the golden Lion, Jesus Christ the Lord. For those who love poetry and those who think they don't, I recommend a slow and thoughtful reading of this lovely book. Each page reflects from a different angle the Light of the World." (Elisabeth Elliott) "A Widening Light ranks as one of the very best anthologies of Christian poetry." (John H. Timmerman)
In Free Inside and Out, Marilyn Meberg and Luci Swindoll remind you that God's grace is your source of freedom, and that you can claim that freedom right now, no matter what your circumstances. Two very different women offer insights on what freedom really means and show you how to: find freedom by getting to know and like yourself escape from the prison of past pain, personal flaws, and old wounds understand the free gift of grace God has given you love and honor others while honoring yourself with healthy boundaries exchange the bondage of legalism for the liberty of grace make choices that will help you live a life of love, laughter, and personal fulfillment From dealing with debt and personal doubts to expressing yourself in delightful new ways, Free Inside and Out offers practical wisdom and witty insight from two of Women of Faith's® most beloved speakers.
In this rich collection of thoughts on creativity and faith, Shaw explores the intersection of the life of faith with the life of art. By helping the reader understand spiritual principles from looking at Gods own creative life throughout Scripture, she challenges the artist in everyone to ask how faith informs art, and how art can animate faith.
Life has a way of slipping away while we're not looking. And many of us are so numbed by mundane routine that we hardly miss its passing. Keeping a journal can bring it all back . . . * Those timeless moments when the mists part and you catch a glimpse of a loving Father. * Those rare insights where you suddenly see your life from a new perspective. * those welcome moments when the pain subsides and the healing begins. "Life Path will be a delight equally to inveterate journal keepers like me, and to those who've often thought they might like to keep a journal, but haven't known how to go about it." - Madeleine L'Engle Luci Shaw is author of eight volumes of poetry, among them Listen to the Green, Water Lines, and Polishing the Petoskey Stone. Her other books include Water My Soul and God in the Dark: Through Grief and Beyond. Since 1988 she has been adjunct faculty member and Writer in Residence at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Poet and author Luci Shaw guides you into a deeper understanding of how to cultivate the life of the soul in relationship to God. Water My Soul speaks of the interior life in images of garden and wilderness, seed and soil, watering and waiting-metaphors for the process that leads to the spouting of the seed, the greening of the leaf, and the eventual harvest of flower and fruit. This book speaks straight to the heart, helping you enjoy a lifelong partnership with God as you cultivate a rich inner life-a life characterized by growth in wisdom and godliness. "Luci Shaw is one of our best writers. Read this wonderful book, and for heaven's sake pick up some copies for your friends!" -Annie Dillard "Water My Soul is a profoundly rooted book that reminds us all to slow down, breathe deeply, and experience God at work. Luci Shaw displays the wisdom of a woman who has lived well and the child-like wonder of a believer who continues to discover new reasons to believe. This book will be a classic-a volume to be reread whenever life seems to spin out of control." -Dale Hanson Burke Publisher, Religion News Service
This book tells the story of my time in the 1990s when I traveled several times from Switzerland via Italy, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan to India and Nepal. It gives insight into the daily life of these overland journeys and what a woman has to deal with, in the Middle East as well as in West Asia. On one trip back to Switzerland, I had to take the vehicle through Iran alone because my driver and mechanic did not get a visa. The book contains many details of cultural experiences, historical sights, distances and everyday life on the road. It is written with a touch of fun and is meant to be informative but also entertaining.
This important new book introduces and discusses the underpinning of psychodynamic psychotherapy for torture survivors in a clinical setting and incorporates concepts from analytical psychology and other theoretical bases in order to provide readers with a deeper understanding of this complex trauma. Using the concepts of analytical psychology, relational psychoanalysis, and neuroscience, and relying on the theoretical basis of her book Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights (Routledge, 2017), Luci focuses on three key clinical cases and illustrates the therapeutic paths that the therapeutic dyad explore and experiences in order to get out of the patient’s inner prison created or aggravated by the experience of torture. The book discusses the role of the therapist when working with torture survivors, the requirement of a slow and cautious approach when dealing with such trauma, and the importance of a careful and respectful consideration of issues of identity, politics, and culture. Featuring a useful guide, this book will be of great interest to mental health professionals, psychotherapists and students practicing in services that provide assistance to torture and war trauma survivors.
This book is about how water becomes people – or, put another way, how people and water flow together and shape each other. While the focus of the book is on the relationships held between water and people, it also has a broader message about human relationships with the environment generally – a message that illustrates not only that people are existentially entangled with the material world, but that the materials of the world shape, determine and enable humans to be ‘humans’ in the ways that they are. Offering a selection of anthropological examples from Kenya, Wales and Spain to illustrate how water’s materiality coproductively generates the way people are able to engage with water, this book uses cross-disciplinary perspectives to provide and promote a new analytic – one that encourages ethical, holistic and sustainable relationships with the world around us. This approach challenges representations that ignore, sidestep or are blind to the fleshy materiality of being human, and aims to encourage a re-imagining of the world that acknowledges humanity as intrinsically active-with and part of the fabric of the collection of materials we call planet Earth.
In honor of Madeleine L'Engle's 80th birthday, a host of prominent writers and academics gather to create this unique collection. Madeleine's circle of friends and peers (writers, poets, scholars, theologians) here provide an intimate portrait of L'Engle and respond to her writings and mentoring influence. Ranging from the personal to the academic, these essays illuminate the many worlds of Madeleine's writings: the private, the reflective, the theological, the scientific, the mythic, and the literary.
Over the centuries, European debate about the nature and status of images of God and sacred figures has often upset the established order and shaken societies to their core. Out of this debate, an identifiable doctrine has emerged of the image in general and of the divine image in particular. This fascinating work concentrates on these historical arguments, from the period of Late Antiquity up to the great and classic defenses of images by St. John of Damascus and Theodore of Studion. Icon extends beyond the immediate concerns of religion, philosophy, aesthetics, history, and art, to engage them all.
“Rejoice, readers, as you receive the generosity of Luci Shaw's 76 new grace-infused parable poems. Autobiography once more merges with theology as these poems illuminate in splendored natural detail how the seasons of creation parallel and explain the seasons of her life as a poet. Again and again, these poems shower us with glorious epiphanies from the natural world as it reflects God's generosity at work such as “spring's impossible news of green.” These poems confirm that in poetry as in faith “ripeness is all.” Like Wordsworth, Luci is celebrated for being a highly gifted landscape poet whose works are rich in imagery from the physical world—meadows filled with seeds, flowers, and also poems which are like "shoots" in Luci's writing life. Animals, too, great and small (beetles, cricket, and voles to bears and whales) play a major role in Luci's poetics of creation; God is likened to a great bear who leaves paw tracks for us to follow. In their deep faith and vibrant colors and designs, the poems in Generosity might be considered Luci's Book of Kells. We need to be like Luci's father who carried her poems in his briefcase to show his friends.” —Philip C. Kolin, Author, Reaching Forever: Poems; Distinguished Professor of English (Emeritus), University of Southern Mississippi
Liam is a cuddly teddy bear who lives with his friends in a big furniture store. He is a very curious young bear and has explored all the store, unlike his friends that prefer to remain safely in their box. Liam sees the same things every day: the same friends, the same customers, the same articles, and he would really like to see something new. Not that he doesn’t love his home and his friends, he does, but he is a little bored and would love to explore the outside world. He really wants to experience something else. Every day he tries to venture outside, and every day he gets as close as he can to the doors, but, being just a very young teddy bear, Liam never finds enough courage to leave his home… until someone does that for him, and he finds himself on an adventure. What will he discover? Who will he meet? Will the outside world be as he expected? Find the answer within the pages of ‘Bears out of the Box’, a modern tale of exploration and friendship, that will entertain and amuse the young reader.
A look into the mirror- It’s clear, Not clearer, You’re a reflection on the glass. Refracting not reflecting, The future, present, the past. At one point or another in life, many of us wonder why things happen and whether we are good enough. Poet, B. A. Luci, believes that now is the time to wake up, release the chains that hold us back, and live our dreams. In an inspirational collection, Luci shares poems that take others on a journey through her life-changing experiences as she traveled from the darkness of misery and into the light of personal growth and insight where she learned how to let go of previous mindsets and transform into who she was truly intended to be. Throughout her debut volume of poems, Luci relies on vivid imagery while reflecting on a variety of powerful emotions that pull others into her world and ultimately encourage a celebration of all life has to offer. IDM: I Define Madness is a compilation of poems that lead others into a young woman’s life and experiences as she becomes enlightened as to her true identity and purpose.
Luci Shaw is someone who knows the world-the oldest definition of a poet. Her animating intelligence descends into the concrete facts of our existence to discover the divine force that shapes the world and maintains its being. Her poetry recapitulates that intimate naming by which man defines himself-the first role God assigned to the human creature."Harold Fickett, author of The Holy Fool"Longtime readers of these poems will renew old acquaintances and pick up a sheaf of new friends besides. New readers will welcome her gifts of Word-crafted icons by which we behold the Glory, see the Holy."Eugene H. Peterson"Polishing the Petoskey Stone is a wonderful compilation of many of the richest of Luci Shaw's poems, both old and new. It's wonderful to see growth in her understanding of the joys and tragedies of life as they can be expressed in poetry. I sense a new, and perhaps harsher, view of reality which is always redeemed by the never failing love of God."Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in TimeLuci Shaw is the author of many books, including God in the Dark, Listen to the Green, and Writing the River. A speaker, teacher, poet, editor, and writer, she lives in Bellingham, Washington.
Danielle is the classic girl- next- door, minding her own business both at home and at the office. But she’s about to turn thirty, still single, and her sisters have decided she needs to be shaken out of her quiet life. What better way than at a weeklong paintball boot camp? Determined to have a good time, Danielle is thrown off her game when she meets the handsome team captain, Trevor. After breaking up with his cheating girlfriend of five years, Trevor is having trouble trusting women. Coerced into joining a paintball boot camp by his best friend, Trevor wants nothing to do with anyone of the opposite sex...until he catches the eye of the sleek and poised team's head cook, Danielle. Could she be the one to turn him back onto romance? As Danielle finds herself battling more that flying paintballs, Trevor struggles to bring home the win for the team—and for himself. With a lot of laughter, some secretive gatherings, and the power of prayer to fend off an unlikely saboteur, can these two young people find their way to each other—and the love they deserve?
We worship an endlessly creative God whose thumbprints are reflected everywhere we look—in sunsets, ocean waves and the invisible rhythms that shape our lives. Join Luci Shaw as she ponders through poetry and prose the unexpected places where she encounters God's fingerprints, and let it help you learn to see them in your life as well.
This book intends to help readers see themselves in light of their own circumstances and understand that nothing and no one has the right or power to hold them back from full character development.
With wisdom & compassion, three Christian women share insights learned in the business world. Great for women reentering the work force, trying to scale down a demanding career or looking to maintain balance.
Renowned poet Luci Shaw and artist and calligrapher Timothy R. Botts have pooled their considerable talents to produce a lush and profound book about the wonders of God's magnificent Creation. Shaw is the author of God in the Dark. Botts has won two Gold Medallions for his outstanding design and calligraphy in Doorposts and Windsongs. Four-color.
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