A Life Lived, Despite It All


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Dr. Earl W. Hendricks opens his heart and invites readers into the intimate journey of his life well lived. From childhood beginnings of abandonment and abuse in Jamaica to excelling in education and ministry. A Life Lived, Despite It All beautifully illustrates how finding love and redemption through God's unmerited favor can save anyone from the depths of despair. Dr. Hendricks's heartfelt memoir provides a compelling roadmap for overcoming life's struggles and embracing God's purpose and plan for your life, even if you sometimes find yourself a reluctant disciple. Recalling his extraordinary journey, Dr. Hendricks allows readers to delve deeply into his multifaceted relationship with his birth parents, the struggles and joys of being embraced by a white adoptive family, and his own journey into fatherhood, marriage, and ministry. A skilled and generous writer, Dr. Hendricks shares his own devastating experience with loss and divorce and provides hope for those who may be struggling with discouragement. A Life Lived, Despite It All demonstrates how staying close to God, answering his call for your life, and being open to love can be the antidote to a broken heart and blueprint to a life well lived.




The Sun and Her Flowers


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Divided into five chapters and illustrated by kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms. this is the recipe of life said my mother as she held me in her arms as i wept think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year they will teach you that people too must wilt fall root rise in order to bloom




A Life Lived, Despite It All


Book Description

Dr. Earl W. Hendricks opens his heart and invites readers into the intimate journey of his life well lived. From childhood beginnings of abandonment and abuse in Jamaica to excelling in education and ministry. A Life Lived, Despite It All beautifully illustrates how finding love and redemption through God's unmerited favor can save anyone from the depths of despair. Dr. Hendricks's heartfelt memoir provides a compelling roadmap for overcoming life's struggles and embracing God's purpose and plan for your life, even if you sometimes find yourself a reluctant disciple. Recalling his extraordinary journey, Dr. Hendricks allows readers to delve deeply into his multifaceted relationship with his birth parents, the struggles and joys of being embraced by a white adoptive family, and his own journey into fatherhood, marriage, and ministry. A skilled and generous writer, Dr. Hendricks shares his own devastating experience with loss and divorce and provides hope for those who may be struggling with discouragement. A Life Lived, Despite It All demonstrates how staying close to God, answering his call for your life, and being open to love can be the antidote to a broken heart and blueprint to a life well lived.




Top Five Regrets of the Dying


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Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.




Yes to Life


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Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychiatrist, who would soon become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience, and the importance of embracing life even in the face of great adversity. Published here for the very first time in English, Frankl’s words resonate as strongly today—as the world faces a coronavirus pandemic, social isolation, and great economic uncertainty—as they did in 1946. He offers an insightful exploration of the maxim “Live as if you were living for the second time,” and he unfolds his basic conviction that every crisis contains opportunity. Despite the unspeakable horrors of the camps, Frankl learned from the strength of his fellow inmates that it is always possible to “say yes to life”—a profound and timeless lesson for us all.




Milk and Honey


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The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.




The Book that Made Me


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Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.




On Not Being Someone Else


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A captivating book about the emotional and literary power of the lives we might have lived had our chances or choices been different. We each live one life, formed by paths taken and untaken. Choosing a job, getting married, deciding on a place to live or whether to have children—every decision precludes another. But what if you’d gone the other way? It can be a seductive thought, even a haunting one. Andrew H. Miller illuminates this theme of modern culture: the allure of the alternate self. From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, Jane Hirshfield to Carl Dennis, storytellers of every stripe write of the lives we didn’t have. What forces encourage us to think this way about ourselves, and to identify with fictional and poetic voices speaking from the shadows of what might have been? Not only poets and novelists, but psychologists and philosophers have much to say on this question. Miller finds wisdom in all these sources, revealing the beauty, the power, and the struggle of our unled lives. In an elegant and provocative rumination, he lingers with other selves, listening to what they say. Peering down the path not taken can be frightening, but it has its rewards. On Not Being Someone Else offers the balm that when we confront our imaginary selves, we discover who we are.




Destined to Live, Despite Me


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Discover Hope and the Promise of New Life In the United States it is estimated that 91 people will commit suicide this very day. This is equivalent to one successful suicide every 16 minutes. Maybe there is someone you know who has contemplated suicide and you would like to help? Perhaps it is you that struggles with depression or the nagging thoughts to end it all? If so, please know that you are not alone. With warmth and wisdom, attempted suicide survivor and Bible study teacher Yolanda Shanks offers practical solutions and scriptural truths for the many painful questions suicide survivors face: Why me? Does God still love me? Will this pain last forever? How can I shake the embarrassment, guilt, and shame from my past? What's needed to rebuild my life from here? Destined to Live, Despite Me is a powerful resource for those determined to live and find lasting joy, peace, hope, and freedom through meaningful, and deliberate living in Christ Jesus. Escape the shadows from your past and begin to build a new life according to God's design today.




Despite It All, Here You Stand


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Unfortunately no one gets to choose the start of their life or gets to decide which foot they start off on. Growing up in the Foster care system and enduring every kind of abuse, is not ideal, especially when you're left alone at the end of it all. Eventually in life, you come to make your own choices. With a little bit of forgiveness, hope, and God on your side; you can still thrive and prosper. This book shares a story that could've ended tragically had I let my past define my future and the person I am today.