Author : Joanne Ryder
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 1994-08-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 068809189X
A man working in his garden finds a delicate worm, a beetle in shining armor, and a leaf-green mantis and shares these treasures with his young daughter. "Lovely double-page, impressionistic oil paintings...provide a picturesque setting for this simple, straightforward description of a special parent/child outing."--School Library Journal.
Author : Myron Uhlberg
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0553906275
By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. “Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?” Such were the kinds of questions that Myron Uhlberg’s deaf father asked him from earliest childhood, in his eternal quest to decipher, and to understand, the elusive nature of sound. Quite a challenge for a young boy, and one of many he would face. Uhlberg’s first language was American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: “I love you.” But his second language was spoken English—and no sooner did he learn it than he was called upon to act as his father’s ears and mouth in the stores and streets of the neighborhood beyond their silent apartment in Brooklyn. Resentful as he sometimes was of the heavy burdens heaped on his small shoulders, he nonetheless adored his parents, who passed on to him their own passionate engagement with life. These two remarkable people married and had children at the absolute bottom of the Great Depression—an expression of extraordinary optimism, and typical of the joy and resilience they were able to summon at even the darkest of times. From the beaches of Coney Island to Ebbets Field, where he watches his father’s hero Jackie Robinson play ball, from the branch library above the local Chinese restaurant where the odor of chow mein rose from the pages of the books he devoured to the hospital ward where he visits his polio-afflicted friend, this is a memoir filled with stories about growing up not just as the child of two deaf people but as a book-loving, mischief-making, tree-climbing kid during the remarkably eventful period that spanned the Depression, the War, and the early fifties. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Wilfried Stinissen
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1586174770
In the spiritual life, we need a central idea: something so basic and comprehensive that it encompasses everything else. According to Carmelite Father Wilfrid Stinissen, surrender to God, abandonment to the One who loves us completely, is that central reality. The life of Jesus shows us the centrality of abandonment, for it is truly the beginning and the end of his mission on earth. In this simple but profound book, Father Stinissen distinguishes three degrees or stages in abandonment. The first stage consists of accepting and assenting to God's will as it manifests itself in all circumstances of life. The second is actively doing God's will at every moment of one's life. In the third stage, abandonment to God is so complete that one has become a tool in God's hands. At this stage it is no longer I who do God's will, but God who accomplishes his will through me.
Author : Paul Cookson
Publisher : Paternoster
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 1998
Category :
ISBN : 9781900507752
Author : Christy Fitzwater
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2016-05-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781981436972
We know God wants to be our Father. But how can we trust Him, if our own earthly example failed? Many of us have known the opposite of heaven when it comes to our earthly fathers. Many of us have memories that should never have been made: memories of disappointment, anger, and even fear. But that was never the way it was supposed to be. In these 52 stories, Christy tells about her dad and how through him, she came to know the Father. Nobody is perfect, but there are some who are kind and loving. Throughout this book, may you come to know the love of a father, and believe enough to place your life in God's hands. You can trust Him with your heart.
Author : Jason Coursey
Publisher : Xlibris US
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1503542971
The Fathers Hands a 31 daily devotional with poems that refl ect upon The Fathers Character. The inspiration came from going through a deep trial and God spoke to me from Isaiah 41:10: Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. I said to God okay what is at your right hand? His answer was to look up passages with His right hand. There were thirty one days for a monthly devotional to ponder and apply to ones life.
Author : David Blankenhorn
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 15,8 MB
Release : 1996-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 006092683X
A compelling and controversial exploration of absentee fathers and their impact on the nation.
Author : J. Oswald Sanders
Publisher : Our Daily Bread Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1640700250
In the Father’s Hands is a selection of thought-provoking devotions that guides readers to greater intimacy with the Creator of the universe. The writings of J. Oswald Sanders (1902–1992)—a long-time student of God’s Word, international preacher, and dedicated missionary—continue to challenge Christians to live as disciples, always learning and ever growing in faith and godliness. These practical discipleship messages on topics such as heaven, prayer, evangelism, loneliness, and temptation will inspire heart, mind, and soul.
Author : Luke Benedictus
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1760871885
It's official: Dads need a rebrand. The Father Hood celebrates the rapidly-growing tribe of hands-on dads who are discovering that fatherhood is the making of them. "The most important thing about being a dad is to be an example." Mark Wahlberg Welcome to The Father Hood. Where we celebrate the growing tribe of hands-on dads who are discovering that becoming a father is the greatest opportunity a man can have to be better than he's ever been before; stronger, wiser and more compassionate. But there is no instruction manual or benchmark for modern dads aside from one golden rule: keep showing up. With a mix of celebrity interviews - from Hugh Jackman, David Beckham, Osher Gunsberg and many more - as well as quotes and stats that capture the rise of the hands-on dad, The Father Hood is the guide to helping modern dads thrive and survive in the only job that really counts.
Author : Deborah Tannen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 110188584X
A #1 New York Times bestselling author traces her father’s life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. “An accomplished, clear-eyed, and affecting memoir about a man who is at once ordinary and extraordinary.”—Forward Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking book about women and men, praised by Oliver Sacks for having “a novelist’s ear for the way people speak,” Deborah Tannen was a girl who adored her father. Though he was often absent during her childhood, she was profoundly influenced by his gift for writing and storytelling. As she grew up and he grew older, she spent countless hours recording conversations with her father for the account of his life she had promised him she’d write. But when he hands Tannen journals he kept in his youth, and she discovers letters he saved from a woman he might have married instead of her mother, she is forced to rethink her assumptions about her father’s life and her parents’ marriage. In this memoir, Tannen embarks on the poignant, yet perilous, quest to piece together the puzzle of her father’s life. Beginning with his astonishingly vivid memories of the Hasidic community in Warsaw, where he was born in 1908, she traces his journey: from arriving in New York City in 1920 to quitting high school at fourteen to support his mother and sister, through a vast array of jobs, including prison guard and gun-toting alcohol tax inspector, to eventually establishing the largest workers’ compensation law practice in New York and running for Congress. As Tannen comes to better understand her father’s—and her own—relationship to Judaism, she uncovers aspects of his life she would never have imagined. Finding My Father is a memoir of Eli Tannen’s life and the ways in which it reflects the near century that he lived. Even more than that, it’s an unflinching account of a daughter’s struggle to see her father clearly, to know him more deeply, and to find a more truthful story about her family and herself.
