I really met myself through studying my heart


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here was a time when the happiness we wanted felt far away. Happiness didn\'t seem to have anything to do with me. I desperately wanted real happiness, not just happiness. One of the many mysteries of our lives is that thoughts and beliefs create and make many things into reality. This is the law of attraction and means that we are super-strong magnets. I didn\'t know it was hard, and thanks to the experience that I wasn\'t happy, I started studying my mind, and in the process, I met my true self and learned my preciousness and value. Thanks to this, I am now the person who conveys that message to the world. A lot of what happened to me is just mysterious and grateful. I think and believe that everything that happens to us has a reason and meaning. Realization and wisdom through our experience and learning always help someone in need. I hope that my stories and messages will be a light in the dark for those who really want to be me and have a happy and free life.




Radical Compassion


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One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning. In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma--and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us.







NIV, Celebrate Recovery Study Bible


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Find freedom from life’s hurts, hang-ups, and habits. The NIV Celebrate Recovery Study Bible is a powerful and positive ally. This Bible is based on eight recovery principles found in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and on the underlying Christ-centered twelve steps of the proven Celebrate Recovery program. This Bible and all of its added content lifts you up and shows you how to walk, step by attainable step, on a path of healing and liberty. Based on the proven and successful Celebrate Recovery program developed by John Baker and Rick Warren, the NIV Celebrate Recovery Study Bible offers hope, encouragement, and, through developing a relationship with Jesus Christ, empowerment to rise above your struggles. Celebrate Recovery is a biblically-based program that helps those who are struggling by showing them the loving power of Jesus Christ through the recovery process. The Celebrate Recovery program is offered in thousands of churches worldwide. Features: Complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV) Articles explain eight recovery principles and accompanying Christ-centered twelve steps Over 110 lessons unpack eight recovery principles in practical terms Recovery stories offer encouragement and hope 30 days of recovery-related readings Over 50 full-page biblical character studies are tied to stories from real-life people who have found peace and help with their own hurts, hang-ups, and habits Book introductions Side-column reference system keyed to Celebrate Recovery’s eight recovery principles Topical index “I’m excited you’re beginning the journey to recovery. Your life will change. You’ll experience freedom from your sinful habits, hang-ups, and hurts as you give up control and allow Jesus to be Lord in every area of your life.” From the foreword by Dr. Rick Warren, senior pastor, Saddleback Church “Throughout the pages of Scripture, we see God’s heart for celebrating recovery! This collection will help you experience and celebrate that journey, one step at a time. Jump in and see how recovery and spiritual growth are one and the same.” Dr. Henry Cloud, Christian psychologist, author, and speaker




The Devil Disguised as a Jesus-Loving Lesbian


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Agatha Sloane’s debut book, The Devil Disguised as a Jesus Loving Lesbian, tells her story through the character of Chole. In a series of confessional letters to her beloved friend, Addie, she reveals an intense battle between the world she was born into and the world she wants to live in. Like most of us, all she wants is to be happy, loved, and to feel a sense of belonging. Unfortunately, the realities of illness, financial deficit, oppression, and addiction squashed her innocent dreams before the age of ten, leaving her to question the truth about everything—especially love. She abandoned religious piety and desperately sought to discover who Jesus is and what it means for him to be the Son of God. Each letter exposes a deeper depth of struggle, uncovering the vulnerable and innate desires that inspired her to wander the turbulent paths masked as acceptance, justice, and love. Join the author as she examines how people are tempted to walk with the devil as they seek to be the gods of their own lives—and how we can find what is truth.




Learning from the Heart


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A Heart-Warming, Inspirational Follow-Up To Letters To Sam Draws On His Perspective As A Quadriplegic To Share His Thoughts On And Insights Into What It Means To Be Human, Including What Divides And Unites Us, The Problems Of Family Life, Parental Problems, The Challenges Confronting The Disabled And The Aging, And Issues Of Injustice In The Modern World.




Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood


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Learn how God’s imprint on your heart can make a lasting impression on your children. Being a mom usually means being busy. Really busy. Whether you’re zipping from your children’s piano lessons to their next ballgame or nursing a baby while comforting a toddler, life is brimming with activities. Yet one encounter can help shape every moment: time in the Word with Jesus. In Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood, you’ll learn how to nourish your own heart, mind, and soul with the wisdom you need to become the mother you long to be. As you spend time with God through this eleven-week Bible study, you’ll gain life-shaping insights to help you. . . . • Understand and pursue your purpose as a mother • Live out your true priorities • Entrust your child to God • Bear the fruit of the Spirit in your everyday interactions • Recover from Perfect Mom Syndrome (PMS) Each week offers four days of study geared specifically to a mother’s concerns, with the Bible passages already printed out for your convenience. The fifth day is a warm-hearted devotional reading to help you reflect on and apply the truths you’ve learned. As your relationship with God deepens through prayer and studying His Word, you’ll discover how His imprint on your heart can make a lasting impression on your children.




Detoured


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Does having it all even exist? Former marketing executive turned third-grade teacher, Jen Babakhan never expected her transition to stay-at-home mom would bring feelings of grief and loss. She felt God was calling her to be home with her newborn son, and she wanted to be with him—yet she felt conflicted about giving up her career. Detoured chronicles the often-bumpy path Jen took to contentment and peace in her new role at home. She honestly shares the struggles and joys of being home, and the truth she uncovered about “having it all.” She invites you to walk beside her on this journey and find: a new confidence and peace in your decision to place your career on hold an invitation to discover your true identity that has nothing to do with your job title a sense of community and the knowledge that you are not alone in your motherhood journey Stay-at-home motherhood isn’t easy—but it can be the most beautiful detour you ever take.




Lifelong Action Learning and Research


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This tribute to Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt is a celebratory Festschrift of her learning/research action-packed life. Colleagues around the world reflect on their own learning, research and professional development, with and through Ortrun, in action learning and action research (ALAR). Four Parts identify focus areas in Ortrun’s work and interests over the last 40 years. Higher Education is the site for most of Ortrun’s work experience since 1974 when she joined Griffith University in Australia. Organisations is a context where Ortrun has actively explored processes of learning, leadership and development in management education. Communities of Practice characterise Ortrun’s work throughout her career, particularly through participatory action learning and action research (PALAR) in communities. Futures focusses Ortrun’s recent writing advocating for PALAR as a flexible and effective methodology for responding to rapid change. Here we see why Ortrun is a quintessential international scholar. And an ALAR practitioner/advocate. Her world view, understandings of knowledge and personal qualities naturally orient her along this path of inclusive, purposeful action. This is why Ortrun is a vital energy in shaping the evolution of the ‘Action’ family of scholarship, now including PALAR and LAL (Lifelong Action Learning). No wonder her life and pioneering work are an adventure story—not just of learning and research, but also of passion and action. This tribute opens windows onto that story.




Tear-Watered Blooms


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No one likes to suffer. It hurts. We all suffer, though, in one form or another, at some time or another. What is God's heart towards his children as they suffer? Does God care like a loving earthly father would for his suffering children? If God loves his children, why would he allow them to go through pain in the first place? These questions are all too common--the very questions Catherine Rackley pleaded before God when she was pummeled repeatedly by multiple hardships, all starting with a cancer diagnosis at the age of twenty-five. "Is God really good?" "Does he love me?" "Is he hearing my prayers?" The hardships did not erase, but some answers did come. You are invited to walk through this vulnerable journey with Catherine where she wrestles with blood, sweat, and tears. . . . Her hope is that you will find those secret places where God led her.