Confronted with the knowledge of Satan's most recent schemes to lay claim to the earth, God finds himself with the inevitability of having to take immediate action. With his leading military officials insisting that he himself make his presence known on earth, God settles on an alternative solution, still not yet convinced that the time had come for his return. Taking care in his selection of the angels and archangels that would be dispersed throughout the world to fight off their ever-challenging enemy, God finds himself with the difficult decision of who to send and to where to combat the most recent attacks against his people. As he begins to assign and delegate the teams of his most trusted angels, he is faced with initial opposition from some of his longstanding warriors when he assigns one of his youngest angels to be a part of the team that is sent to fight against one of Satan's demon generals, a demon who is only second-in-command and strength to the rest and one whose motives are marked against the innocence and protection of God's beloved children. Could Little Lu be the answer to defeat the demon general and save God's children? And if she were, how could one of the smallest angels, one who is untested in spiritual warfare of this magnitude, succeed in the task that she is being sent to do?
Peter Merrane was content in his calling as a Pastor in his hometown parish in West Virginia where he and his wife were raising their young son. Although years had gone by since he left his former life behind him, his memories still remained of the battles he fought to protect God\'s people and the bonds he shared with those he trained to take his place. The only physical proof he kept of his previous calling was in a journal he hid in his office, never suspecting he would have use of it again until one night when a close family member and an unexpected friend from his past arrive at his home telling him of a mysterious disease with no known cause that was claiming the lives of young children. When he learns of a potential connection, he has between the parents of a young girl assumed to be the only key to unlocking the mystery, Peter knows he has no choice but to act. Armed with his faith and a lifetime of experience, Peter accepts his friend\'s request, and the two men race against time to discover the truth and protect the girl who has been gifted to see what others cannot.
Christian Merrane has always been outgoing, popular, and adventurous. For as long as he can remember, his spirit has been one to force him into constant motion. He had always been curious to learn and fearless to accept any challenge. Throughout his life, he searched to find the answers he knew were kept hidden from him to define his place in the world, but in his efforts to learn his purpose, he often found himself facing reprimand for the daring actions he took to prove himself. Now facing those same unanswered questions he's always kept hidden within him as he approaches becoming an adult member of society, Christian finds alternative means to subdue the driving forces compelling him to act--means that lead him away from his true purpose in life--that is, until he is forced to face the one thing he fears the most. As he suffers through a loss he never could have prepared himself to endure, Christian finds himself on the edge of two paths--one that will lead him on a path of self-destruction and the other toward a path that will open his eyes and his heart to the answers he's been seeking. Although he faces influences pulling him away from who he is intended to be, others enter his life in the moments he needs them the most to combat the forces against him. And although help is within his reach, it is up to Christian to decide which road he travels.
When homicide detective Damon Norse takes his family on a much-needed vacation away from the stress and chaos of work obligations and inner-city living, he expects to enjoy a relaxing and uneventful week. Not long after, he and his family arrive to their destination; however, Damon find that his well-intended plans are soon to be uprooted when unexplained events and disappearances start to occur. At first settled in allowing the local law officials and now federal agents that have been contacted to solve the mystery, Damon quickly changes his plans when the threat reaches close to his own family. The deeper that Damon involves himself in the case, the stranger and more dangerous his investigation becomes. But with the help of some unexpected new friends and unseen allies, Damon gains the necessary support he needs to fight the evil that plagues the woods around him. In his race against time to protect the innocent from the darkness that he himself cannot yet explain, Damon realizes that the unbreakable bonds of his family and those sent to aide and protect him will become the strength he needs to face his fears and begin to understand that his purpose is more than what he ever thought it would be.
Although they're both young, Peter and Mary Angeline knew from the moment they met that God had a hand in bringing them together. As their relationship grew over the course of two years and both families offered their own means of support and encouragement, the day came upon them when Peter eagerly made his intentions clear to make his official lifelong commitment to her. As elated as her future husband was to join their lives and families together through marriage, Mary Angeline found herself having to rely on her trust in him when Peter and his father were suddenly called away on one last mysterious Christian mission before the ceremony could officially take place. Unable to contact Peter while he was away, Mary Angeline, her family, and future in-laws are left with the task of making all the arrangements without him. Faced with a short window of time to bring everything and everyone together, opposing opinions between family and friends of how the details should be arranged, and unforeseen setbacks, Mary Angeline and Peter's special day approaches faster than they are prepared for. But in keeping a strong faith in God and one another despite the temporary distance between them and obstacles they're faced with, the young couple finds that there is someone already ahead of the chaos and has his own plan of how the day will proceed. 2
With her best friend and fellow Guardian captured by Satan's army of darkness, leaving her alone to defend the mortals to which they had been assigned, Trinity anxiously awaits the decision of God to either call her back to heaven or reassign her. Determined to avenge her fellow guardian angel and bring justice to those who took him from her, she is elated when the archangel Michael delivers to her the news that God has, in fact, decided to allow her to remain in England and continue her quest to protect the mortals there, as well as seek out and rescue her friend with the assistance of one of heaven's grounded agents. Although at first eager to establish a trusting relationship with her new partner, Trinity soon finds her once confident attitude to quickly be uprooted and deflated when she learns the identity of the immortal that has been assigned to assist and protect her while she remains on earth. As she struggles to accept and come to the understanding of why God had assigned this particular agent to aide in her fight, Trinity quickly learns that his value far supersedes her initial biases against him. In their search to find Kellan, both Trinity and Jarrik discover unexpected, hidden secrets behind Trinity's origins, and both come to learn why each was as important as the other to succeed in what they were sent to do.
If you made the decision to call out to God for answers when you are broken, lost, and uncertain of your future, would you be open to see the help that he sends for you? Would you trust in him to know exactly what you need, even if it isn't what you think the answer should be? If he sent a guardian angel to help you, although not knowing who or what they would appear as, would you accept their help even if they only appear as a caring friend or family member? It is in the darkest hours of our lives that we face such critical decisions. We struggle to combat the forces that seek to draw strength from our weaknesses, hoping that God is still there fighting for us. The truth remains that he, in fact, is and always has been fighting for our salvation, even in the times that we push him away. He waits for us to open our hearts to accept his love and blessings. God knows the hearts and trials of not only all the angels that serve him but all his beloved children on earth as well.
When her mother has a vision of the world and their family's purpose upon Christ's return to earth, Mariella is suddenly sent to live on the island for seven years to train. Although her mother didn't reveal all that she saw, Mariella knew her family will have a purpose in his holy place, and she is eager to prove her worthiness. In preparation for the day he will call her and her family to serve him in his sacred home, Mariella eagerly awaits her first assignment on the earth she knows--to protect and fight for his people until he calls them to him--but when she herself is awoken from a dream and sets out to investigate a mysterious darkness, Mariella is pulled away from her family when they are taken to serve their destiny. Desperate to find them and the holy place she knew they would be, Mariella ventures out into a changed new world. Through chance circumstance, new allies, and a mysterious new enemy who threatens the lives of God's chosen, Mariella finds that perhaps her true destiny was right before her eyes all along.
Michael had his life all figured out right down to the day he retired from his current profession. His past was far behind him and nearly long forgotten. He was satisfied to journey alone. The world was a chaotic place, and he faced enough trouble just trying to bring his clients safely to their destinations. He had no desire to involve himself in rising conflicts or choose between two very different sides. He was content to lead his life exactly the way he chose. That is until the day he met Kazmyne.
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on the desert border to the west of the Rio Grande, this book explains the origins of the modern border and places the line at the center of a transnational history of expanding capitalism and state power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moving across local, regional, and national scales, St. John shows how government officials, Native American raiders, ranchers, railroad builders, miners, investors, immigrants, and smugglers contributed to the rise of state power on the border and developed strategies to navigate the increasingly regulated landscape. Over the border's history, the U.S. and Mexican states gradually developed an expanding array of official laws, ad hoc arrangements, government agents, and physical barriers that did not close the line, but made it a flexible barrier that restricted the movement of some people, goods, and animals without impeding others. By the 1930s, their efforts had created the foundations of the modern border control apparatus. Drawing on extensive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, Line in the Sand weaves together a transnational history of how an undistinguished strip of land became the significant and symbolic space of state power and national definition that we know today.
While the literature on Atlantic history is vast and flourishing, few studies have examined the importance of inland settlements to the survival of Atlantic ports. This book explores the symbiotic yet conflicted relationships that bound the Mexican cities of Xalapa and Veracruz to the larger Atlantic world and considers the impact these affiliations had on communication and, ultimately, the formation of national identity. Over the course of the nineteenth century, despite its inland location, Xalapa became an important Atlantic community as it came to represent both a haven and a place of fortification for residents of Veracruz. Yellow fever, foreign invasion, and domestic discord drove thousands of residents of Veracruz, as well as foreign travelers, to seek refuge in Xalapa. At the same time, these adverse circumstances prompted the Mexican government to use Xalapa as a bulwark against threats originating in the Atlantic. The influence of the Atlantic world thus stretched far into central Mexico, thanks to both the instability of the coastal region and the desire of government officials to “protect” central Mexico from volatile Atlantic imports. The boundaries established at Xalapa, however, encouraged goods, information, and people to collect in the city and thereby immerse the population in the developments of the Atlantic sphere. Thus, in seeking to protect the center of the country, government authorities more firmly situated Xalapa in the Atlantic world. This connection would be trumped by national affiliation only when native residents of Xalapa became more comfortable with their participation in the Mexican public sphere later in the nineteenth century. The interdisciplinary and comparative nature of this study will make it appeal to those studying Atlantic history, including historians of Britain, the United States, Latin America, and Africa, as well as those studying communication, print culture, and postal history more broadly.
When her mother has a vision of the world and their family's purpose upon Christ's return to earth, Mariella is suddenly sent to live on the island for seven years to train. Although her mother didn't reveal all that she saw, Mariella knew her family will have a purpose in his holy place, and she is eager to prove her worthiness. In preparation for the day he will call her and her family to serve him in his sacred home, Mariella eagerly awaits her first assignment on the earth she knows--to protect and fight for his people until he calls them to him--but when she herself is awoken from a dream and sets out to investigate a mysterious darkness, Mariella is pulled away from her family when they are taken to serve their destiny. Desperate to find them and the holy place she knew they would be, Mariella ventures out into a changed new world. Through chance circumstance, new allies, and a mysterious new enemy who threatens the lives of God's chosen, Mariella finds that perhaps her true destiny was right before her eyes all along.
Peter Merrane was content in his calling as a Pastor in his hometown parish in West Virginia where he and his wife were raising their young son. Although years had gone by since he left his former life behind him, his memories still remained of the battles he fought to protect God\'s people and the bonds he shared with those he trained to take his place. The only physical proof he kept of his previous calling was in a journal he hid in his office, never suspecting he would have use of it again until one night when a close family member and an unexpected friend from his past arrive at his home telling him of a mysterious disease with no known cause that was claiming the lives of young children. When he learns of a potential connection, he has between the parents of a young girl assumed to be the only key to unlocking the mystery, Peter knows he has no choice but to act. Armed with his faith and a lifetime of experience, Peter accepts his friend\'s request, and the two men race against time to discover the truth and protect the girl who has been gifted to see what others cannot.
Although they're both young, Peter and Mary Angeline knew from the moment they met that God had a hand in bringing them together. As their relationship grew over the course of two years and both families offered their own means of support and encouragement, the day came upon them when Peter eagerly made his intentions clear to make his official lifelong commitment to her. As elated as her future husband was to join their lives and families together through marriage, Mary Angeline found herself having to rely on her trust in him when Peter and his father were suddenly called away on one last mysterious Christian mission before the ceremony could officially take place. Unable to contact Peter while he was away, Mary Angeline, her family, and future in-laws are left with the task of making all the arrangements without him. Faced with a short window of time to bring everything and everyone together, opposing opinions between family and friends of how the details should be arranged, and unforeseen setbacks, Mary Angeline and Peter's special day approaches faster than they are prepared for. But in keeping a strong faith in God and one another despite the temporary distance between them and obstacles they're faced with, the young couple finds that there is someone already ahead of the chaos and has his own plan of how the day will proceed. 2
If you made the decision to call out to God for answers when you are broken, lost, and uncertain of your future, would you be open to see the help that he sends for you? Would you trust in him to know exactly what you need, even if it isn't what you think the answer should be? If he sent a guardian angel to help you, although not knowing who or what they would appear as, would you accept their help even if they only appear as a caring friend or family member? It is in the darkest hours of our lives that we face such critical decisions. We struggle to combat the forces that seek to draw strength from our weaknesses, hoping that God is still there fighting for us. The truth remains that he, in fact, is and always has been fighting for our salvation, even in the times that we push him away. He waits for us to open our hearts to accept his love and blessings. God knows the hearts and trials of not only all the angels that serve him but all his beloved children on earth as well.
Michael had his life all figured out right down to the day he retired from his current profession. His past was far behind him and nearly long forgotten. He was satisfied to journey alone. The world was a chaotic place, and he faced enough trouble just trying to bring his clients safely to their destinations. He had no desire to involve himself in rising conflicts or choose between two very different sides. He was content to lead his life exactly the way he chose. That is until the day he met Kazmyne.
Feeling frustrated at home having to share his time and toys with his two younger sisters, Owen happily ventures to spend the summer on his grandmother's farm. He arrives with an eagerness to explore and navigate his summer home and reconnect with old friends, hoping to forget what was troubling him at home. Throughout the summer, Owen and his friends encounter other children, different from them in various ways. Curious to learn more about them, Owen turns to his grandmother for support. Will Owen learn to accept the differences of the other children, and more importantly, will his friends agree to accept them too? Take an imaginative journey with Owen and his friends as they explore what everyone has to offer.
Eliza spent most of her life fighting to survive against constant attacks from the demons that haunted her dreams and her reality since the day her family was savagely taken from her. Fearful that the same fate would be thrust upon anyone who dared to form a connective bond with her, she forced a life of solitude upon herself to save not only someone else from merciless torture but also herself from enduring another loss of a loved one. Settled to live the remainder of her mortal existence in hiding, Eliza becomes accustomed to living alone until she began reflecting on the day that a stranger walked into her life and offered her a choice. A choice to reconnect with the one being she knew she could trust to survive a demonic attack and who could allow her to feel the loving bonds she so desperately longed for. Set on seeking out the angel that appeared to her the day her family was taken from her, Eliza never could have imagined the destiny that awaited her when she arrived at her new island home. A destiny that allows her to see the blessing in the abilities she has been given and one that leads her to the family God already designed for her to be a part of.
For as long as he can remember, Father Julien has been unable to settle his restless spirit. His passion for Christ allows him the intuition to know that he will one day be called to act, but when and under what circumstance? Through his journey, he is surrounded by signs, people and places he feels compelled to protect, yet still, he is unable see the answers that await him. In his struggle to learn his purpose, he desperately calls for a message to be sent to lead him on his way in search of the only being on earth who will bring light to the man he is supposed to be.
Christian Merrane has always been outgoing, popular, and adventurous. For as long as he can remember, his spirit has been one to force him into constant motion. He had always been curious to learn and fearless to accept any challenge. Throughout his life, he searched to find the answers he knew were kept hidden from him to define his place in the world, but in his efforts to learn his purpose, he often found himself facing reprimand for the daring actions he took to prove himself. Now facing those same unanswered questions he's always kept hidden within him as he approaches becoming an adult member of society, Christian finds alternative means to subdue the driving forces compelling him to act--means that lead him away from his true purpose in life--that is, until he is forced to face the one thing he fears the most. As he suffers through a loss he never could have prepared himself to endure, Christian finds himself on the edge of two paths--one that will lead him on a path of self-destruction and the other toward a path that will open his eyes and his heart to the answers he's been seeking. Although he faces influences pulling him away from who he is intended to be, others enter his life in the moments he needs them the most to combat the forces against him. And although help is within his reach, it is up to Christian to decide which road he travels.
Confronted with the knowledge of Satan's most recent schemes to lay claim to the earth, God finds himself with the inevitability of having to take immediate action. With his leading military officials insisting that he himself make his presence known on earth, God settles on an alternative solution, still not yet convinced that the time had come for his return. Taking care in his selection of the angels and archangels that would be dispersed throughout the world to fight off their ever-challenging enemy, God finds himself with the difficult decision of who to send and to where to combat the most recent attacks against his people. As he begins to assign and delegate the teams of his most trusted angels, he is faced with initial opposition from some of his longstanding warriors when he assigns one of his youngest angels to be a part of the team that is sent to fight against one of Satan's demon generals, a demon who is only second-in-command and strength to the rest and one whose motives are marked against the innocence and protection of God's beloved children. Could Little Lu be the answer to defeat the demon general and save God's children? And if she were, how could one of the smallest angels, one who is untested in spiritual warfare of this magnitude, succeed in the task that she is being sent to do?
From the time she was old enough to understand the musical gift she was given, Ana knew the life she wanted to lead. Hopeful to draw the attention of adoring crowds of millions and a perfectly matched prince once she got her one big break, Ana kept her mind only on her fairy-tale dreams, despite changes in the world suggesting that something much bigger was on its way. Although her family tried warning her of the signs surrounding her, Ana left herself vulnerable and unprepared for the new world she was suddenly thrust into, a world that challenged everything she knew about her strength and will to survive, yet one in which through her trials she found herself on a path to understanding the woman she was truly meant to be.
Rosie Johns lived her life hoping to emulate the woman she admired the most, her mother. Even as a child, Rosie was bold, confident, and eager to face the world. But when her life started falling apart beginning with the untimely death of her mother under mysterious circumstances, Rosie found herself fighting to maintain her strength and the image she built of herself. While searching through her mother's belongings, Rosie found a picture that forced her to question everything she knew about herself. Desperate for understanding and not knowing how to find the answers on her own, Rosie left her home, her job, and immediate family to seek out the only person in the photo she knew to be able to lead her in the right direction, her Uncle Peter. Welcoming her with open arms, Pastor Peter Merrane is compassionate to the suffering of his niece, but he knows that the answers she is in search of must be discovered by her. Giving her the only clue he knew would best lead her on her way, Pastor Merrane sent his son, Christian, to journey with her, hoping that he, too, would learn his true purpose through their experiences. Although skeptical at first, Christian agreed to go with his cousin, if only to provide the love and support she needed just as she had done for him in a time of his life he needed it the most. Never having expected the adventure that awaited them, Rosie and Christian found themselves surrounded by people that not only became as important as they were to each other but also revealed connections both of their parents had to people and places they never knew existed. As the mystery begins to unfold, and the answers they seek are within their reach, Rosie and Christian learn who they are truly meant to be and the blessings that are awaiting them when they accept their callings to serve an everlasting God.
When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life.
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