Touch My Soul No Longer


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Readers can experience healing from sexual abuse through the unique Biblical insights learned by this minister and author during her own process of healing from childhood sexual abuse. (Practical Life)




Can't Touch My Soul


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This groundbreaking study of lesbian survivors of childhood sexual abuse is a powerful and critically needed entry in the field of survival and recovery literature. 60 courageous lesbian survivors share their personal stories of recovery from the earliest stages of remembering the abuse, to understanding and ultimately overcoming the defense mechanisms that children adopt to survive it, to addressing the endemic feelings of horrible isolation and shame. This collection provides victims ways in which to become survivors, and endows them with a vision of hope for the future.




Reaching Back to Touch My Soul


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In, Reaching Back to Touch My Soul: Thoughts on Love, Laughter and Living, everyone has a chance to read about the parts of life that matter most: love, laughter, and living a meaningful life. In today's world, which is filled with so much nonessential data that clings to our mind like tissue paper to a shoe. Reaching Back to Touch My Soul gives us a chance to reconnect not only to each other but also to the often forgotten parts of ourselves. The stories and essays in the book came into the world as op-ed pieces for The Virgin Islands Daily News. From different times, places and themes they have emerged as a family of ideas and grown as one. There are three major themes in the book. The first is Love, the second, Laughter, and the last Living Choosing Love as the starting point was easy, according to author Linda DePass-Creque, "Love breathes life into everything else. It is from love that everything else flows" The theme Laughter is a potpourri of topics and commentary written to make you smile as you take in its message. The last theme in this delightful book, Living, explores many of life's "basic skills", including coping, understanding, tolerance, friendship and sometimes making sense out of nonsense! With the wonderful illustrations of each theme , its humor, and its wise, down- to- earth philosophy, this book is well worth reading.




Moments Within My Soul: A Compilation of Writings


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Moments Within My Soul By: Mike Taylor Life, Love, God—we have all known the joy, pain, and anger that come with all three of these aspects of our journey. Moments Within My Soul is a peaceful collection of writings that reminds us to never give up on Life, Love, God, or ourselves—there is always hope.




When Soul Is Life


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Are you searching for the kind of authentic happiness that makes your heart beam with joy? Have you felt a gentle nudge recently to listen to the call of your soul? Do you want to gain the sort of wisdom and insight that will help you have more clarity in life? Then this book is for you. Kylie Riordan, author of When Soul Is Life, lovingly presents life-transforming soul wisdom that inspires you to live a life of authentic happiness in the here and now by using practical real-life virtues such as kindness and love. Are you brave enough to listen to the call of your soul? Are you ready to enter into a sacred contract with love? Once you open this book and embrace the wisdom of your soul, there is no turning back. If you are courageous enough to take the first step, you can be sure that the final destination will be love. When do you know you have obtained authentic happiness? When soul is life!




Earthed in God


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This resource for spiritual directors offers exercises and prayer tools on the theme of spiritual growth. Using the Biblical image of gardening, Christopher Chapman offers material for those seeking to live a more abundant and fruitful life. He explores four stages of spiritual development: - Sinking roots into God’s creative earth: practices that reveal where we can grow and develop. - Emergence: ‘holy daring’ and responding to God’s invitation to put out new shoots. - Abundance and maturity: how to recognize resistance to the work of the Spirit. - Fruitfulness and falling: finding fulfillment in giving and receiving. The material is also ideal for personal reading during a retreat or by those receiving spiritual direction.




Dipping Down from Deep Within My Soul


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Dipping Down from Deep within My Soul is an assortment of vibrant, inquisitive, enchanting, and diverse poetry guaranteed to soothe your soul in any situation you may encounter or have already stumbled upon in life. It's straightforward poetry, no guessing the poems are direct and to the point. They will have you dipping and flipping back and forth until your heart and soul are content. Have you ever been in a relationship? Have you ever had a broken heart? Have you ever been in love? Have you ever been depressed? Do you need a word of encouragement? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you're going to thoroughly enjoy reading Dipping Down from Deep within My Soul, a reader's home remedy for peace of mind.




The Saint and her Fool


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On a magical Christmas Eve the impoverished Count Harro von Thorstein finds the young Princess Rosemarie wandering alone through the forest. She has come from Castle Brauneck fleeing from her golden cage in search of the love she desires and needs. Sensing a lost soul, much as himself, Harro gains the trust of the angelic child. A mystical bound of true love emerges, which holds them captive throughout their further lives. The young woman is granted with celestial strength, experiencing divine love and devotion to her belief. With sacred compassion she overcomes anguish and is lifted up to the hallowed purity of a saint.




Democritus: Science, The Arts, and the Care of the Soul


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This volume gathers the papers presented at an International Colloquium held in Paris in 2003, and offers new contributions and new interpretative suggestions about both canonical and relatively neglected research areas on Democritus, including ethics, physics and epistemology, as well as musical and literary criticism, technics, zoology, and the catalogue of works. Specific contributions are furthermore devoted to Democritus’ posterity and the problem of sources. The book also offers a detailed bibliography and several indices, which render it an up-to-date and stimulating tool for contemporary research on Democritus and atomism. Essays by: A. Brancacci, L. Gemelli, A. Jaulin, W. Leszl, J. Mansfeld, P.-M. Morel, D. O’Brien, L. Perilli, J. Salem, C.C.W. Taylor, J. Warren.




A Soul's Reflections


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TODAY is the day to experience and rediscover the beauty, majesty, power, and love of God anew and afresh! Why? Because life can bring about stagnancy, slumber, and drought; but the Holy Spirit desires to stir, awaken, and rejuvenate the heart to a deepened passion for the Divine Creator – God! It's time to fall in love with God again! A Soul's Reflections – a compilation of inspirational prose, poetry, and anecdotes – is a wonderful accompaniment to personal Bible study, prayer, and devotional periods. Throughout its pages the Holy Spirit breathes uniquely expressed and profound revelations of God, that the soul may inhale God's breath, be spiritually revived – and LIVE.