Get Out of Heaven's Waiting Room


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Joyce Ackley is an 83-year-old living in Washington State with her little dog Annie (an orphan.) After her husband retired from the Navy the two went to college and became school teachers. They became grandparents before they graduated. Joyce became a widow 29 years ago and has constantly sought to be useful and happy in her life. As she ages, she still looks for ways to find life fulfilling. She does not want to retire to Heaven's Waiting Room. Can't do the things you used to do? Ready to give up on life? This book is full of ideas to get you out of Heaven's Waiting Room and back to enjoying the wonderful life God has given you. The book is a series of essays and ideas for you to try. You will find out why to cough in a plastic bag or find out how you get pregnant. Other laughable notes as well as a touching story of a grandfather crying in church on Christmas Eve. It's a book that will start you thinking, make you laugh and make you begin to live again. Young at Hearts are the main focus of the book although anyone needing ideas to spice up their life will find it helpful.




Your God is Too Glorious


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Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.In our day of celebrity worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.




You'll Get Through This


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We all fear that the depression will never lift, the disappointment will never stop, the pain will never leave. Here in the pits, surrounded by steep walls, we wonder if our gray skies will ever brighten. Though these unprecedented and challenging times may bring a load of uncertainty and fear that feels too heavy to bear, God gives us this promise: You'll Get Through This. In You'll Get Through This, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado traces the story of Joseph as told in the book of Genesis. The Bible tells us that Joseph was tossed into a pit by his brothers, sold into slavery, wrongfully imprisoned, forgotten and dismissed. Yet Joseph's story is proof that we can flourish even in this broken world. On his darkest days, Joseph may have thought that the sun would never shine again, but God ultimately used these hardships for a greater purpose. Whether you find yourself in the pit of financial downturn, job loss, health crisis, or relationship stresses, God has a plan and a path forward designed just for you. Max reminds readers God doesn't promise that getting through trials will be quick or painless, but he does use our mess for good. In this book, Max will help you: Find comfort in the knowledge that you are God's child and God cares deeply for you Remember that God is near you and has never left you Look for hope in each hardship that you face Lean on your loving community in challenging times Take courage that God will restore even the most painful circumstances and use them for good Each copy of You'll Get Through This includes thoughtful questions for reflection designed to give you a chance to dive deeper into the hard yet hopeful story of Joseph's perseverance. With the compassion of a pastor, the heart of a storyteller, and the joy of one who has seen what God can do, Max explores the story of Joseph and the truth of Genesis 50:20: what Satan intends for evil, God redeems for good.




God's Waiting Room


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Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and life's lessons, God's Waiting Room considers what matters in the end for older white adults and the younger Black nurses who care for them. An innovation in creative nonfiction, Casey Golomski's story of his years of immersive research at a nursing home in South Africa, thirty years after the end of apartheid, is narrated as a one-day, room-by-room tour. The story is told in breathtakingly intimate and witty conversations with the home's residents and nurses, including the untold story of Nelson Mandela's Robben Island prison nurse, and readers learn how ageism, sexism, and racism intersect and impact health care both in South Africa and in the United States, as well as create conditions in which people primed to be enemies find grace despite the odds. For copyright reasons, this edition is not available in the South African Development Community and Kenya.




Heaven Is Waiting


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Heaven Is Waiting is about heaven, but it is much more. It is about our longing for heaven, our innate instinct for it. It is about eternity in our hearts and how the hope of heaven inspires and sustains us. We groan inside as we resist death and cry for something more beyond the grave. What we call life is a journey to death; what we call death is the gateway to life. Using biblical principles, Triplett paints a refreshing picture of heaven and provides proof that heaven is a real place. He challenges many preconceived ideas of what heaven will be like while answering the questions that you may not have had the courage to ask. He has collaborated with noted clergymen who share their insights about the heaven that can become your final forwarding address. This book will either affirm your belief in heaven or challenge your plan for getting there. Heaven is a permanent residence, a city without a cemetery, a place where we unpack our bags-memories-and stay forever. Are you excited and ready for a great adventure? Are you anticipating what awaits you beyond death's door? Prepare for the time of your life-heaven is waiting.




Heaven's Heartbeat


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Heaven's Heartbeat is a nonfiction, literary composition of artistic quality, uniquely co-authored by a mother and her daughter. Separated by circumstances beyond their control, they now blend their personal experiences in this heartwarming memoir as an expression of faith, hope, and perseverance in the midst of a life-threatening crisis. From beginning to end, their compelling story is full of surprises that stir the readers' emotions and encourage many to ponder God's loving faithfulness in the midst of life's unpredictable circumstances. Come now . . . sit back and embrace the beauty of life as you join them on their journey of hope.




Elderberry Wine


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An anthology of rich recollections and seasoned imaginations, Elderberry Wine displays prose and poetry by Joyce Ackley, Dixie L. Arata, John G. Beckman, Jr., Louise Beckman, D. Fred Benton, Joe Clarke, Alex Cooley, Don Fraser, G.K. Glass, Bill Green, Barbara J. Hamby, Patricia J. Hogan, Madge Howard, Gary Jensen, Ruth Monson-McAtee, Eileen Jones McGoffin, Gilbert Pacheco, Josephine Paterek, Don Reed, Barbara N. Saur, Donna Schmaltz, Anne Sparling, Herb Stokes, Elizabeth L. Taylor and Joan Tyrrell.




The Waiting Room


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The Waiting Room There is nothing so frustrating as waiting in an age of instant gratification. If the wait is for something important and life-changing it is all the more anticipated. This book deals with the psychology and philosophy involved in waiting and how knowing this can, in fact, be a life-altering experience that has profound effects on reshaping one's moral integrity. What has been viewed as a negative experience is now seen as a positive opportunity to renew the mind of Christ in the believer. Perception and expectations are refocused dramatically.




Save Me a Place in Heaven


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His fathers death prompted him to preserve his family memories for his descendents, but the writing quickly grew into a life essay on farm life, Southern cooking, dogs, small-town life in the 1950s, and the demise of our current culture. The book is written in the authors voice and evokes feelings of Sams, Grizzard, and Rooney. He believes our culture is being slowly destroyed from within by small dogs, cats, bad barbecue, kudzu, fat-free ice cream, cell phones, e-mail, the Internet, childproof lids, hard plastic security packaging, iPods, video players in automobiles, kids not being raised right, rudeness, fast food, moms who dont cook, high school graduates who cant read, long-winded preachers, the disappearance of real Southern cooking, and the popularity of instant grits, Diet Pepsi, and unsweetened tea. His familys history is a goldmine of great food, quirky characters, outlandish actions, and bodacious behavior; he has mined it shamelessly and offers no apologies.




God's Waiting Room


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Lisânias Moura has served as a Baptist pastor for more than three decades. He has counseled countless men and women who were undergoing pain and suffering. He himself has experienced moments of great anguish when his trust in God was put to the test. When it comes to faith, the subject of suffering is often the most difficult to deal with. In this respect, God's Waiting Room qualifies as an essential work. As he explores the life lessons contained in the book of the prophet Habakkuk, the author masterfully intertwines his own stories with examples from his counseling ministry. With sensitivity, honesty and deep emotion, Moura avoids worn-out platitudes and a prosperity-like triumphalism. He shows the way to recover the hope that often eludes us when we are in the "waiting room." In a gracious, surprising manner, he shows how the waiting room can be transformed into a space full of hope.