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A Study in Job: A Ten Verse Study
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ecklund, Marge, PUBLISHER: Agl Publishing, An Invitation to return to God - Job One day after author, Marge Ecklunds daughters were grown, married and with families of their own, her heart was heavy and she was crying and talking to the Lord. It was a perfect place for her that day as she was asking the Lord why it was that she could counsel others, teach Bible studies and even speak to groups of women and yet couldn't communicate with my own daughters. At that moment He taught her one of the most important principles of her life..that of staying on her own path and living her life in the center of Gods path for herself. The Study in Job only covers ten verses in the book of Job, yet it leads people through some of the toughest challenges in life. Bible Study Lessons include: Knowing and Loving Him, Receiving/Establishing, Returning/Restoring, Relinquishing/Releasing, Blessings of Obedience/Intimacy With God, Prayer Communing With God and more. Men and women can find authentic peace through the forgiveness of sin and through total acceptance of the truth revealed by God. Within ten verses, the invitation to return to God can be life changing.
Finding God's Fingerprints in Our Daily Lives: A Daily
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Heffern, Jean Howell Kopp, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, Too often we separate our spiritual life from the rest of our life. Given our crazy, hectic, tightly scheduled daily lives, it's easy to remain fragmented instead of drawing together all the pieces that give our lives meaning. We need to take time to look at the very ordinary parts of our day, hold them up to the light of the scripture, and see that God is always there, intimately present, active, and drawing us into a deeper relationship. God is always touching our lives, using our trials, hard times, and day-to-day struggles as well as our joys and triumphs. He is always waiting for us to recognize the potential treasures we already possess. But unless we look for His fingerprints we sometimes miss His touch on our lives and cannot see the blessings He intends for us to discover. "Finding God's Fingerprints in Our Daily Lives" is a daily devotional that looks at events, places, and objects common in life and searches out God's fingerprints within them. It portrays the author's living relationship with God in her daily living that encourages and challenges the reader to search for that same relationship within his or her own life.
Sunday Dinners: Food, Family, and Faith from Our Favorite
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cowen, Diane, PUBLISHER: Andrews McMeel Publishing, A cookbook that feeds the body and soul, featuring recipes and inspiring stories from some of America's most prominent pastors, and encouraging everyone to come to the table and celebrate Sunday suppers with grace and good food. "Sunday Dinners" brings readers to the kitchen and dining-room tables of fourteen of America's favorite pastors and their families as they share their Sunday traditions, mealtime blessings, inspiring stories, strong family values, and favorite recipes. Research shows that eating dinner together strengthens a family's bond, and Sunday dinners are especially sacred. They are a time to bring everyone together, catch up, teach children manners and social skills, stay connected with teens, learn about family history and values, and nourish our bodies and souls. In "Sunday Dinners," the pastor-families who share their experiences are known not just for their successes in the pulpit and in their communities, but also for the strong families they have built. They preach it, and they live it, and that's inspiring. This is a cookbook to be read and savored, to remind us that no matter how busy we think we are, we can still take time to come together, break bread, and connect with family and good friends.
THE STYLE COUNCIL CafĂš Bleu - LP
THE STYLE COUNCIL CafÚ Bleu casa discografica/label: POLYGRAM n° catalogo/catalog#: anno pubblicazione/released: brani contenuti/tracklist: A1 Mick's Blessings A2 The Whole Point Of No Return A3 Me Ship Came In! A4 Blue Café A5 The Paris Match A6 My Ever Changing Moods A7 Dropping Bombs On The Whitehouse B1 A Gospel B2 Strength Of Your Nature B3 You're The Best Thing B4 Here's One That Got Away B5 Headstart For Happiness B6 Council Meetin' Bass - Paul (tracks: A3, A7, B6), Chris Bostock (tracks: B4) Brass [Brass Sound] - Mick (tracks: B5) Clavinet - Mick (tracks: B6) Double Bass - Peter Wilson (tracks: A4), Chris Bostock (tracks: A5) Drum Programming - Peter Wilson (tracks: B1, B2, B3) Flute [Flute Sound] - Paul (tracks: B6) Guitar - Paul (tracks: A3, A4, B2, B3, B4, B5), Ben Watt (tracks: A5) Lead Vocals - Tracey Thorn (tracks: A5) Organ [Hammond] - Mick (tracks: B2, B4, B6) Piano - Mick (tracks: A1, A3, A5, A7, B5) Rap - Dizzy Hite (tracks: B1) Saxophone - Billy Chapman (tracks: A3, A7), Hillary Seabrook (tracks: B1, B5) Synthesizer [Bass Synth] - Mick (tracks: B2, B3), Paul (tracks: B2, B3) Trumpet - Barbara Snow (tracks: A3, A7, B1, B5) Violin - Bobby Valentino (tracks: B4) Vocals - Paul (tracks: B2, B3, B4, B5), Mick (tracks: B2, B3, B5), D.C. Lee (tracks: B2, B5) Disco: EX  Copertina: EX LEGENDA: M  : NUOVO/NEW NM: PARI AL NUOVO/AS NEW EX: POCO USATO/LITTLE USED VG: MOLTO USATO, IN BUONE CONDIZIONI/USED BUT IN GOOD CONDITIONS G: MOLTO USATO, DISCRETE CONDIZIONI/VERY USED P: VINILE E COPERTINA IN CATTIVE CONDIZIONI/VINYL AND COVER IN BAD CONDITIONS
Reality: Poetry from the Heart
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gordon, Jeanette, PUBLISHER: Xulon Press, In this insightful and thought-provoking collection of poems, author Jeanette Gordon combines poignant, heart-felt reflections on the burdens and blessings of real life to paint a modern day portrait of reality. Her faith in God is the strong foundation for exploring relationships, understanding life and experiencing love. -Elder Anne Powell, Executive Director, Great Grace Consultants This invaluable great book of poems certainly express the heartbeat of everyday life challenges; yet, the author provides insightful points to ponder, with a poetic pause that compels the reader to thrust forward embracing obstacles as opportunities that can lead to great personal growth. After reading this book you will not remain the same -Elder Addie Gordon-Monroe Jeanette Gordon's writing is filled with power, passion and purpose. Her words illuminate universal truths of the human condition. Her voice is at once recognizable and candidly refreshing. Jeanette inspires all of us to be closer to our authentic selves by always seeking the truth from within. -Eva Q. Tennant A native of Washington, DC, Jeanette Gordon is the daughter of Douglas and the late Ida Gordon and is the youngest of five siblings. Jeanette is currently a member of Good Success Christian Church located in Northeast, Washington, DC. At Good Success, she serves as part the Ministerial team and Director of Missions. Jeanette has earned a B.S. from St. Paul's College in Lawrenceville, VA, B.A. from National Bible College and Seminary in Fort Washington, MD and a M.B.A. from Bowie State University in Bowie, MD. She resides in Suitland, Maryland.
Chase's Calendar of Events [With CDROM]
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McGraw-Hill, PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill, The bible of special occasions.--"Los Angeles Times,". entries. 194 countries. 365 days. 50 years and counting.. From his years as a newspaper librarian William D. Chase knew of the need for a single reference source for calendar dates and for authoritative and current information about various observances throughout the year. William and his brother, Harrison, decided to create such a reference themselves. They set to work collecting, compiling, verifying, editing and proofreading the events that would make up the first "Chase's Calendar of Events,." Fifty years later, "Chase's Calendar of Events" is still the most comprehensive and authoritative reference available on special events, holidays, federal and state observances, historic anniversaries and more... "Chase's" starts its next fifty years with:. Milestones such as Quebec's 400th founding anniversary, Minnesota's statehood sesquicentennial and NASA's 50th birthday.. New birthdays such as literary lion and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, stars from TV's Heroes and Ugly Betty and newly elected heads of state worldwide.. Events from the Games of the XXIX Olympiad at Beijing, China, the Dakar Rally and Euro in Austria/Switzerland to the US's major party conventions and presidential election.... Search Chase's Anyway You Want. Whether you want to target a specific date, location or subject, our fully searchable CD-ROM* makes your research quick and easy. Also included is a free installer, so you can load "Chase's" directly to your hard drive.. *PC-compatible only.
Sixty Days and Counting
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Robinson, Kim Stanley, PUBLISHER: Bantam, By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world's climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next. But the president-elect remains optimistic and doesn't intend to give up without a fight. A maverick in every sense of the word, Chase starts organizing the most ambitious plan to save the world from disaster since FDR-and assembling a team of top scientists and advisers to implement it. For Charlie Quibler, this means reentering the political fray full-time and giving up full-time care of his young son, Joe. For Frank Vanderwal, hampered by a brain injury, it means trying to protect the woman he loves from a vengeful ex and a rogue "black ops" agency not even the president can control-a task for which neither Frank's work at the National Science Foundation nor his study of Tibetan Buddhism can prepare him. In a world where time is running out as quickly as its natural resources, where surveillance is almost total and freedom nearly nonexistent, the forecast for the Chase administration looks darker each passing day. For as the last-and most terrible-of natural disasters looms on the horizon, it will take a miracle to stop the clock... the kind of miracle that only dedicated men and women can bring about. "From the Hardcover edition."
The Man I Call Dad
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rehbein, Dirk A., PUBLISHER: Trafford Publishing, This is an inspirational story of a self-made entrepreneur. In , at the age of 18, Glenn Rehbein started his first business with $ loan from his uncle, a dream, and the passion to see his dream through with the help and support of his wife, Myrna. As his family grew from two to six from to so did his business. Glenn expanded into residential excavation and changed the name of his business form "Lino Sod Company" to "Glenn Rehbein Excavating." Some of Glenn's early entrepreneurial endeavors included Outpost Sport Center, R-Better Homes, R-Best Carrots, and Robark (design and manufacturer of agriculture equipment). Through the years, Glenn's company continued to prosper through real estate development and ever-larger excavation projects around the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. In more recent years, his project list included building and owning golf courses and other major projects around the country. Throughout Glenn's illustrious 47-year career, he never lost sight of his priorities- God, family and friends. Glenn had always felt blessed by God and he was always eager to share Gods blessings with others. Glenn was always a source of inspiration, wisdom, strength and a never-ending positive attitude even in the most difficult situations. Over the years, Glenn and Myrna traveled the world and Glenn was never at a loss for friends. Glenn has a unique ability to strike up a conversation with a total stranger and after a few minutes, you would have thought they were friends from childhood. Whenever Glenn went, he was surrounded either by friends, family or by both. Glenn had a magnetic personality and everyoneenjoyed being around him. Although, Glenn died in a tragic accident on February in Phoenix, Arizona, his life continues to touch people.
Sonny rollins - the prestige years vol. 2 - lp
SONNY ROLLINS THE PRESTIGE YEARS - VOL. LP casa discografica/label: PRESTIGE n° catalogo/catalog#: PRE anno pubblicazione/released: brani contenuti/tracklist: ART FARMER QUINTET Bass - Percy Heath Drums - Kenny Clarke Piano - Horace Silver Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins Trumpet - Art Farmer A1 Soft shoe A2 Confab in tempo A3 I'll take romance MILES DAVIS QUINTET Bass - Percy Heath Drums - Kenny Clarke Piano - Horace Silver Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins Trumpet - Miles Davis A4 Airegin B1 Oleo B2 But not for me B3 But not for me (alternate take) B4 Doxy SONNY ROLLINS QUINTET Bass - Percy Heath Drums - Art Blakey Piano - Elmo Hope Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins Trumpet - Kenny Dorham C1 Movin' out C2 Swingin' for bumsy C3 Silk 'N' satin C4 Solid SONNY ROLLINS QUARTET Bass - Tommy Potter Drums - Art Taylor Piano - Thelonious Monk Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins D1 I want to be happy D2 The way you look tonight D3 More than you know SONNY ROLLINS QUARTET Bass - George Morrow Drums - Max Roach Piano - Ray Bryant Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins E1 There's no business like show business E2 Paradox E3 Raincheck F1 There are such things F2 It's all right with me MILES DAVIS ALL STARS Bass - Paul Chambers Drums - Art Taylor Piano - Tommy Flanagan Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins Trumpet - Miles Davis F3 In your own sweet way MILES DAVIS ALL STARS Bass - Paul Chambers Drums - Art Taylor Piano - Tommy Flanagan Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins Trumpet - Miles Davis G1 No line G2 Weird blues SONNY ROLLINS PLUS FOUR Bass - George Morrow Drums - Max Roach Piano - Richie Powell Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins Trumpet - Clifford Brown G3 I feel a song comin' on H1 Pent up house H2 Valse hot H3 Kiss and run H4 Count your blessings Disco: EX  Copertina: EX
God's Economy
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Johnson, M. A., PUBLISHER: Xulon Press, Do you ever ask yourself; How can I achieve prosperity? Do you even know where to start in today's economy? The answers lie in GOD'S ECONOMY. M. A. Johnson offers time tested, profound Biblical principles, that will change the way you think about money, and teach you how to make those necessary changes that bring about prosperity. In this inspiring book, you will find that Melissa Ann Johnson leaves no stone unturned, she'll bring you face to face with your God. Deuteronomy says, "And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day." I have enjoyed (and been blessed) by GOD'S ECONOMY. I believe it covers the bases on the various verses about money - and the principles regarding it - in the Bible. -Bonnie C. Harvey, Ph.D. M. A. Johnson is the founder of Truth & Money International. Melissa Ann Johnson is passionate about the truth, and is known for her no nonsense, straightforward, Biblical approach to helping people break free from the deceptions of money. From personal experience, Melissa knows what it takes to live under God's Economy, and how God blesses the faithful. With a message that crosses all denominations, cultural, and economic barriers, this professional business women, writer, teacher, coach, and humanitarian, has been married to her husband, Eric W. Johnson for eight years. Melissa and Eric continue to thank God for bringing them together and praise God for His "Truth" and blessings over their lives. Melissa and Eric live in Washington State. For more information about Melissa Ann Johnson, or for additional resources, or to book her for speaking and coaching engagements, please email her at:
The Christian Professor in the Secular University
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Keilstrup, Duane Victor, PUBLISHER: Xulon Press, Duane Keilstrup, a man with a passion to be a blessing to others, is courageous and yet perceptive of others' feelings. Reading the accounts of our visit to South Africa together reminded me of the many times we would meet, pray for specific individuals, and then look for ways to be a blessing to them. Duane's stories and remembrances within these pages will be personally encouraging as well as stimulating to your faith and ministry.-Mike Duggins, Campus Crusade Director of Ministry DevelopmentWhat a marvelous journey This book stirs the "young at heart quality" of my soul and, above all, it has brought a new appreciation for joy. I sing and soar with you -Dr. J. Ronald Blue, Central American Missions President, Dallas Theological Seminary ProfessorThank you for making your love of Christ clear to students, even in a secular university.-Andy Wilson, graduate student in German Language and LiteratureDuane did it all He has engendered enthusiasm and excitement for the study of German while maintaining high standards of teaching.-Ruth Gross, former Foreign Language Chair, University of Texas at ArlingtonDuane is a gentleman and a kind soul who has much class, which is clearly evident to his audience at YesterdayUSA Radio, whose staff appreciates his efforts over the years producing and hosting a wonderful show for the whole family.-Walden Hughes, Executive Producer, YesterdayUSA Radio Networks******************************************Finding creative ways to share his love of the Lord is a high priority for Dr. Keilstrup, and this book was written not only to share his memories with family, friends, and others of his generation but also to encourage all to find the joy that comes from God's blessings and their own sharing of the Gospel through a variety of ministries.OTRClassicsAndCurios.com
Victory at Yorktown
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gingrich, Newt / Forstchen, William R. / Hanser, Albert S., PUBLISHER: Thomas Dunne Books, "New York Times" bestselling authors Newt Gingrich's and William R. Forstchen's George Washington series continues--a novel about faith, leadership, and the triumph of the American cause It is , and Washington and his army have spent three years in a bitter stalemate, engaging in near constant skirmishing against the British. The enemy position in New York City is too strong, all approaches blocked by the Royal Navy. At last, two crucial reports reach Washington. The first is that the French have briefly committed a fleet to the American coast. The second is that British General Cornwallis, driven to distraction by protracted warfare in the Carolinas, has withdrawn into Yorktown. Washington decides to embark on one of the most audacious moves in American military history. He will force-march nearly his entire army south more than three hundred miles, in complete secrecy, counting on a blockade of the Chesapeake Bay by the French navy, fall upon Cornwallis, and capture his entire force. It is a campaign ladened with "ifs" but the stalemate must be broken, otherwise America, after six long years of war, will crumble. Sgt. Peter Wellsley must pave the way for the army, neutralizing any loyalists who might provide warning. On the other side, Allen Van Dorn receives reports from civilians that something is afoot and is tasked to find out what. As Wellsley moves to block any leaks, Van Dorn tries to penetrate the screen. When one of the former friends is captured, both must decide where their true loyalties lie during the heat of the Battle of Yorktown, as Washington's professional army, once a "rabble in arms," executes the war's most decisive contest.
SONNY ROLLINS The Prestige Years vol. 2 - 4LP
SONNY ROLLINS THE PRESTIGE YEARS - VOL. LP casa discografica/label: PRESTIGE n° catalogo/catalog#: PRE anno pubblicazione/released: brani contenuti/tracklist: ART FARMER QUINTET Bass - Percy Heath Drums - Kenny Clarke Piano - Horace Silver Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins Trumpet - Art Farmer A1 Soft shoe A2 Confab in tempo A3 I'll take romance MILES DAVIS QUINTET Bass - Percy Heath Drums - Kenny Clarke Piano - Horace Silver Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins Trumpet - Miles Davis A4 Airegin B1 Oleo B2 But not for me B3 But not for me (alternate take) B4 Doxy SONNY ROLLINS QUINTET Bass - Percy Heath Drums - Art Blakey Piano - Elmo Hope Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins Trumpet - Kenny Dorham C1 Movin' out C2 Swingin' for bumsy C3 Silk 'N' satin C4 Solid SONNY ROLLINS QUARTET Bass - Tommy Potter Drums - Art Taylor Piano - Thelonious Monk Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins D1 I want to be happy D2 The way you look tonight D3 More than you know SONNY ROLLINS QUARTET Bass - George Morrow Drums - Max Roach Piano - Ray Bryant Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins E1 There's no business like show business E2 Paradox E3 Raincheck F1 There are such things F2 It's all right with me MILES DAVIS ALL STARS Bass - Paul Chambers Drums - Art Taylor Piano - Tommy Flanagan Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins Trumpet - Miles Davis F3 In your own sweet way MILES DAVIS ALL STARS Bass - Paul Chambers Drums - Art Taylor Piano - Tommy Flanagan Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins Trumpet - Miles Davis G1 No line G2 Weird blues SONNY ROLLINS PLUS FOUR Bass - George Morrow Drums - Max Roach Piano - Richie Powell Saxophone [Tenor] - Sonny Rollins Trumpet - Clifford Brown G3 I feel a song comin' on H1 Pent up house H2 Valse hot H3 Kiss and run H4 Count your blessings Disco: EX  Copertina: EX LEGENDA: M  : NUOVO/NEW NM: PARI AL NUOVO/AS NEW EX: POCO USATO/LITTLE USED VG: MOLTO USATO, IN BUONE CONDIZIONI/USED BUT IN GOOD CONDITIONS
Classism and Feminist Therapy
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hill Ed D., Marcia / Hill, Marcia / Rothblum, Esther D., PUBLISHER: Routledge, Classism and Feminist Therapy: Counting Costs makes therapists more aware of their own class biases which assists them in providing more effective treatment that is sensitive to women's backgrounds. By helping therapists face important issues when their profession intersects with the values and experiences of working-class women, Classism and Feminist Therapy challenges the lack of attention given to issues of class in psychotherapy and serves as a step toward open conversation about the topic.Calling attention to the sociopolitical nature of therapy, contributors define some ways in which current therapeutic practices can become oppressive when class differences between client and therapist are ignored. In Classism and Feminist Therapy, therapists gain valuable insight about how class matters are played out in therapy. These insights are combined with guidelines as to how to engage in a less class-biased form of psychotherapy. To this end, contributors discuss: class-related biases and assumptions commonly held by therapists how to make psychotherapy more responsive to the needs of working-class and poor women the intersection of class, race, and gender and how this applies to therapy strengths and challenges for working-class, poor, and economically privileged women class and gender in a political and sociological context social-psychological dynamics of internalized classism and pathways to healing and self-recoveryThis engaging book alerts therapists to the failures and inadequacies of current approaches to class as an issue in psychological theory and psychotherapy. It discusses how the issue of class has been overshadowed by the assumptions that individuals and society make about it: that people are the class they deserve to be; that class is correlated with how hard one works or how smart one is; and that class is primarily a matter of income or owned assets rather than of access (both psychologically and practically) to resources.All therapists--psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors--of intermediate to advanced levels of knowledge and practice will find information in Classism and Feminist Therapy invaluable for confronting issues of class in their professional and personal interactions.
The Life of Adam Smith
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ross, Ian Simpson, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Few would argue that Adam Smith was one of the great minds of the eighteenth century. He is perceived through his best-known book, The Wealth of Nations, as the founder of economics as a science, and his ideas about the free market and the role of the state (in relation to it) continue to influence modern economic thought. Yet Smith achieved even more as a man of letters, as a moralist, historian, and critic. The Life of Adam Smith, the first full-scale biography of Smith in a hundred years, is a superb account of Smith's life and work, encompassing a career that spanned some of the defining moments in world history, including the American and French Revolutions. Here author Ian Simpson Ross examines Smith's family life, education, career, intellectual circle (including David Hume and Francois Quesnay), and his contemporaries (the likes of Immanuel Kant, Voltaire, and Thomas Jefferson), bringing to life this great thinker and author. Readers will meet Smith as a student at a lively Glasgow University and at a sleepy Oxford; a freelance lecturer delivering popular classes on rhetoric; an innovative university teacher ("by far the most useful, and therefore," Smith wrote, "by far the happiest and most honourable period of my life"); then a tutor travelling abroad with a Duke; an acclaimed political economist; a policy advisor to governments during and after the American Revolution; and finally, if paradoxically in view of his strongly held tenets, a Commissioner of Customs coping with free traders in the smuggling business. But it his impact as a writer that continues to set Adam Smith apart today. The Wealth of Nations, published in , as the British Parliament was deep in debate about the American colonies, continues to influence modern economic theory throughout the world. Ross sheds new light on this classic work and on its meaning for today. And he also paints a vivid portrait of Smith's personal life, revealing a man of singular generosity of spirit, who believed that with wit and logic and sensitivity to our feelings, we might aspire to virtue rather than wealth, and so become members of a truly civil society. Upon Adam Smith's death in , a friend wrote of him, "Happy are those who at the close of life can reflect that they have lived to a valuable purpose by contributing, as he did, to enlighten mankind, and to spread the blessings of peace and liberty and virtue." The Life of Adam Smith illuminates the world of a man whose legacy of thought concerns and affects us all.
Mama's Heart
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Boomhower, Mary J., PUBLISHER: Xlibris Corporation, Iâll Carry You My Child â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„ I just remember praying so silently, "Dear Jesus, will you please take my trembling hand?" Lord canât you see, Iâm losing all of my courage, Iâm weak, my legs are shaking, and I can barely stand. I know that you see this door in front of me, my precious daughter is resting in peace on the other side. I am just so afraid of seeing what I most want to see, "Lord, Do you think, this time, you could carry me inside?" Then Jesus said, "My child you must have forgotten, for this surely isnât the very first time. Youâve had other troubling times in your life, as I did then, Iâll carry you now, and you will be just fine." I canât tell you this wonât be painful, for it will, there will be things that you wonât want to see. But someday even painful memories become cherished, and theyâll remain "deep, in the heart of you and me." Donât you remember the day that you followed me child, as we walked lazily along in the sand? There was only "one set of footprints" then, donât you know, "my child, Iâll carry you again?" 18 MARY J. BOOMHOWER Did You See The Angels? â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„ Danni, "Did you see the angels hovering near, and did you ask them to please go away?" "Did you tell them you would go another time, but that you just couldnât go that day?" Danni, "Did you tell them you were on your way home, and that I was counting the minutes to see you?" "Did you tell them your new life had barely begun, and that you still had so many things to do?" Danni, "Did you tell them, that you really loved "The Lord," and you would gladly go to Heaven someday?" "Did you tell them that we hadnât said our good-byes, and that you just couldnât leave me that way?" Danni, "Did you tell them that your mama wasnât that strong," and that I just couldnât bear losing my child?" "Did you tell them how we had to hug every day, and how much I would miss your smile " MAMA'S HEART 19 Our Last Cuddle â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„â„ All signs of life were gone from you, when I first saw you that day. The pain that you had suffered, was still on your face, and I wanted so badly to take it away. I needed to wrap my arms around you, and to give you lots of baby kisses. Just the way we did when you were small, and when you had all of those "near misses " I gently blew kisses over your body, while I prayed that you safely made it "home." Then I really thought I heard you say, "Mama, please cuddle me once more, while weâr
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McBride, James, PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books, Make this your next book club selection and everyone saves. Get 15% off when you order 5 or more of this title for your book club. Simply enter the coupon code MCBRIDECOLOR at checkout. This offer does not apply to eBook purchases. This offer applies to only one downloadable audio per purchase. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, "The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother." The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos" with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. "Mommy," a fiercely protective woman with "dark eyes full of pep and fire," herded her brood to Manhattan's free cultural events, sent them off on buses to the best (and mainly Jewish) schools, demanded good grades, and commanded respect. As a young man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry, and confusion--and reached thirty before he began to discover the truth about her early life and long-buried pain. In The Color of Water, McBride retraces his mother's footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April . Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated to America and ultimately settled in Suffolk, Virginia, a small town where anti-Semitism and racial tensions ran high. With candor and immediacy, Ruth describes her parents' loveless marriage; her fragile, handicapped mother; her cruel, sexually-abusive father; and the rest of the family and life she abandoned. At seventeen, after fleeing Virginia and settling in New York City, Ruth married a black minister and founded the all- black New Brown Memorial Baptist Church in her Red Hook living room. "God is the color of water," Ruth McBride taught her children, firmly convinced that life's blessings and life's values transcend race. Twice widowed, and continually confronting overwhelming adversity and racism, Ruth's determination, drive and discipline saw her dozen children through college--and most through graduate school. At age 65, she herself received a degree in social work from Temple University. Interspersed throughout his mother's compelling narrative, McBride shares candid recollections of his own experiences as a mixed-race child of poverty, his flirtations with drugs and violence, and his eventual self- realization and professional success. The Color of Water touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a ly