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The Struggles of Caregiving

Author : Nell E. Noonan

Publisher : Upper Room Books

Page : 73 pages

File Size : 16,38 MB

Release : 2012-02-01

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 083581128X

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Caregiving is a demanding task that takes a huge toll on the person providing care—mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Nell Noonan, speaking from her own experience as caregiver for her husband, describes caregiving as a "cataclysmic spiritual experience." She says it's critical for caregivers to practice self-care so they can cope with their situation. Paying attention to one's spiritual health is especially important. The 28 Days format (4 weeks of brief daily readings that include scripture and prayer) provides an accessible way for caregivers, typically stressed and pressed for time, to devote a few minutes to their spiritual health. Noonan's honesty and faith are hallmarks of her writing. Speaking from her own experience and the experiences of others, she does not avoid difficult situations and the feelings that accompany them. Noonan witnesses to the strength she finds as she continually turns to God, even in her darkest moments. Caregivers will appreciate these devotions that are both forthright and uplifting. This book makes a thoughtful gift for any caregiver or for staff members of a facility for older adults.



The Stars and the Struggles for Life

Author : Apollo Perez

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 20,15 MB

Release : 2015-07-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1503582213

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New life started in a Distant Solar System and an Idea started with a Chosen One. A Person Possessing Great Insight and Supernatural Powers and Could Solve Many Mysteries. Time passed and Generations would pass before the right person would take this idea to heart, Friendships and Missguided Leaders would almost destroy this New Life and Direction. It would take the Power of The Great Grandson of a Chosen One to keep this New Life Together and Going. This was a time when moving on a Planetary Scale to a new Planet in a New System just beyond the Great Nebula was planned. Their world here was to be destroyed by Massive Impacts as well as the Worlds near by. Such a Massive move would require Great Minds to come together and plan the move Precisely. Special people started to step up, seemingly coming from nowhere. Such a special person was well known and was considered to be a Chosen One. This person was an accomplished Pilot and expert navigator and engineer and always coming up with new ideas. The move was well planned and executed and the trip and move was done. New life started in the New Worlds and this Pilot became known to the people as a Great inventer and builder of The Great Cities. As life expanded in the first of five planets, life seemed to flourish and expansion was promissing, he had an idea that would change the path into the Future. Generations later, certain attitudes and poor plannings and personal goals would almost destroy these peoples futures and directions and it would take his Great Grandson to take control of life and destinies. His personal struggles early in his life in setting his direction and working with his friends was challenging. His close friends were mixed with their own paths and his personal love one was torn between him and loyalty to friends. Her direction and path would put a strain in his direction and destiny as he faced many challenges and adventures in his push through the Planets. Being among The Stars And The Struggle For Life is a challenge to this Chosen One and would change the total direction of many people and set many directions to A Common True Path And Future.



Progressive Creation and the Struggles of Humanity in the Bible

Author : Zoltan Dornyei

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 309 pages

File Size : 19,58 MB

Release : 2018-03-22

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1532633890

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Why does the Christian walk often feel like an ongoing struggle and why does God’s creation include imperfection, let alone forces that are intent on thwarting God’s creative work? In seeking a response to these questions, this book argues that the biblical accounts describe creation in terms of a progressive transformation process whereby the initially incomplete created order will reach perfection only in the fulfillment of new creation. The following discussion then outlines a comprehensive framework for the biblical theology of humanity’s struggles, centered on three key themes: corporeal temptation, deficient social structures, and the much-debated notion of spiritual warfare. The book presents an overarching canonical narrative that threads together a series of diverse biblical topics, from Job's temptation to the Atonement. The final part surveys biblical teaching on how human conduct can be aligned with God’s creative purpose, and discusses three “assignments” from Jesus to believers: to celebrate the Eucharist, to pray the Lord’s Prayer, and to fulfill the Great Commission.



The Struggles of Post-Independence Nigeria

Author : Ucheoma Nwagbara

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 373 pages

File Size : 13,65 MB

Release : 2022-02-01

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1793633762

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In The Struggles of Post-Independence Nigeria, Ucheoma Nwagbara argues that despite Nigeria’s oil wealth and arable agricultural land, Nigerians are not any better today than they were before independence. Nwagbara examines Nigeria’s struggles with corruption, reckless government spending, poverty, inequality, crime, and violent insurgency to show how successive Nigerian leadership has failed to utilize the country’s enormous natural and human resources to improve citizens’ lives, eradicate poverty, and deliver broadly shared prosperity, especially to the middle class and the poor. Through his analysis, Nwagbara demonstrates that the nationalist ideals of dedicated and accountable leadership behind the struggle for independence in Nigeria have been betrayed as the emergent post-colonial leadership cared only for personal survival and gain. Despite these failures, Nwagbara reveals that Nigeria may still have a chance to improve and recover if Nigerians unite and demand real change through political and social activism.





Land in the Struggles for Citizenship in Africa

Author : Moyo, Sam

Publisher : CODESRIA

Page : 386 pages

File Size : 46,52 MB

Release : 2015-12-01

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 2869786360

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The variety of land questions facing Africa and the divergent strategies proposed to resolve them continue to evoke debates. Increasingly, in response to the enduring problems of land tenure, there are land movements of all shapes and orientations, some reformist and others quite revolutionary in their agenda. However revolutionary, land movements have tended to ignore the land tenure interests of women, pastoralists, youth and indigenous people. Several of these longstanding and emerging issues in land tenure include the role of the state in land tenure reforms; urban land questions, the nature of land struggles and improvements; and, the impact of land tenure developments on particular social groups and countries. An overarching concern is the extent to which land rights are being commodified, through the conversion of land held under customary tenure systems into marketised systems. The consequences of this include growing land concentration, land tenure insecurities, diminishing access to land by various sections of society, including the poor, women and less dominant ethno-religious groups. This volume brings together different studies on Africa's land questions exploring emerging land issues on the continent in terms of the wider questions of development, citizenship, and democratisation. The chapters discuss the land question through a variety of themes. Some focus on the agrarian aspects of the land questions, while others elucidate the urban dimensions of the land question.



Chicago Catholics and the Struggles within Their Church

Author : Andrew M. Greeley

Publisher : Transaction Publishers

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 48,64 MB

Release : 2011-12-31

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1412844444

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What might one expect to learn from a probability sample study of the Archdiocese of Chicago? Can one form a national portrait of Catholics in the United States from data about Chicago? Certainly, Chicago is unique in its judgments about its clergy. As the eminent Catholic sociologist Andrew M. Greeley argues, it is this very difference that makes rigorous comparisons between Chicago Catholics and other Catholic subpopulations possible. He suggests that history and geography provide a basis for understanding the development of the Catholic Church not just in this specific area, but also in the entire United States. The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago it composed of two counties, Lake and Cook. At the same time the Catholic population has been pushed up against the boundary of DuPage County by racial change in the city, so that much of the west and south side Catholic population of the city has moved into the southern and western suburbs. In this research area, half of the Catholics have attended college and half of those have attended graduate school. Thus, the conventional image of Chicago as a mix of ethnic immigrant neighborhoods has to be modified—although there are still many new immigrants attending special immigrant parishes. Greeley argues that the official church in Chicago, and by inference elsewhere, has not recognized the community structures that permeate the neighborhoods, that it does not grasp the religious stories that shape its peoples’ identity, and it does not understand the intense, if selective, loyalty of the archdiocese to its leadership. As part of this argument, Greeley includes transcriptions of in-depth interviews with former Catholics. This study provides a fascinating window into the world of Catholicism in twenty-first century urban America.





The Struggles of Life

Author : Apostle Alfred Farrow

Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Page : 47 pages

File Size : 46,6 MB

Release : 2017-10-05

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1640289526

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The Struggles of Life is a story about one's life as they see many difficult hardships in life and many seem not to know where to look or where to turn. Also, it is about how many will put you in a category that nine out of ten is not you but that's where you end up because there is no support.



Freedom Struggles

Author : Adriane Lentz-Smith

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 331 pages

File Size : 26,82 MB

Release : 2010-03-01

Category : History

ISBN : 0674054180

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For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. They returned home to join activists working to make that world real. In narrating the efforts of African American soldiers and activists to gain full citizenship rights as recompense for military service, Adriane Lentz-Smith illuminates how World War I mobilized a generation. Black and white soldiers clashed as much with one another as they did with external enemies. Race wars within the military and riots across the United States demonstrated the lengths to which white Americans would go to protect a carefully constructed caste system. Inspired by Woodrow Wilson’s rhetoric of self-determination but battered by the harsh realities of segregation, African Americans fought their own “war for democracy,” from the rebellions of black draftees in French and American ports to the mutiny of Army Regulars in Houston, and from the lonely stances of stubborn individuals to organized national campaigns. African Americans abroad and at home reworked notions of nation and belonging, empire and diaspora, manhood and citizenship. By war’s end, they ceased trying to earn equal rights and resolved to demand them. This beautifully written book reclaims World War I as a critical moment in the freedom struggle and places African Americans at the crossroads of social, military, and international history.