Inspiration

Most of us faithfully remember and capture out children's "firsts." Karen encourage readers to try recognise and savor the often- fleeting "lasts"-- those milestone that so easily go unrecorded...

Video games are an increasingly influential part of our culture. This growing trend has some parents frustrated as they try to balance the time their children spend playing games and the influence those games have over them...

Author of marriage – Gift to the World, has brought together in book form a collection of her radio talks first broadcast over Catholics-on-Air (96.9 Plains FM). These weekly reflections will delight the reader by their down to earth homeliness, yet deep spiritual truth. Each item is followed by Scripture references to aid meditation and prayer. The book includes occasional poems and attractive line drawings. Certainly this is a book to enjoy, and also to give. Peb and her husband enjoy their ever-expanding family of young marrieds and grandchildren. She is also an active member of the Carmelite Secular Order. ..

Since 1978 lecturer, writer, broadcaster on prayer, lay spirituality and family life. Peb trained and worked as a Spiritual Director at Rosary House Christchurch. Her articles and poetry have been published in secular and religious journals; her biography of Ria Bancroft Sculptor, No Ordinary Woman, was released late 1997. Peb is married to Aldren. Their family consists of five children and six grand children. The concept of Marriage-Gift to the World comes from the lived family experience, developing the belief that marriage can become the most fruitful life-gift for each couple and their world. MARRIAGE is not dead; it needs only to be rediscovered and renewed in CHRIST...

"When Peb Simmons wrote the biography of her mother, New Zealand sculptor Ria Bancroft, she chose the title "No Ordinary Woman." This autobiography tells the story of an extraordinary life. It is well-written, intimate and honest.... The Garment of love is a spiritual gift to all who read it." Pauline O'Regan RSM..

You are familiar St. Paul's writings, correct? Sometimes one line can become very long and convoluted and even turn almost a whole chapter of a book. He would not get an "A" for grammar. But, in some ways I say, "So what? Big deal. He does not have to be perfect." Some say he wrote in the imperfect manner that he did because he was so full of grace that it was uncontainable and spilling out all over the place. Welling up with grace and words and light and life, St. Paul just filled the page as God rushed forth! And that is the way I would like you to look at this book. It is not perfect but neither am I. This book is about a perfectly loving God coming to save a sinner like me and you. It is about God rushing in with his grace and words and light and life to create this book, however imperfect it might be. So, I pray that God will be uncontainable in you and you will not worry so much about having perfect presentation and grammar in your life. You do not have to have your house in or..

"Anam Cara is a rare synthesis of philosophy, poetry, and spirituality. This work will have a powerful and life-transforming experience for those who read it." ?Deepak Chopra John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you through the spiritual landscape of the Irish imagination. In Anam Cara, Gaelic for "soul friend," the ancient teachings, stories, and blessings of Celtic wisdom provide such profound insights on the universal themes of friendship, solitude, love, and death as: Light is generous The human heart is never completely born Love as ancient recognition The body is the angel of the soul Solitude is luminous Beauty likes neglected places The passionate heart never ages To be natural is to be holy Silence is the sister of the divine Death as an invitation to freedom John O'Donohue was a poet, philosopher, and scholar and a native Gaelic speaker from County Clare, Ireland. He was awarded a PhD in Philosophical Theology from the University of Tübingen, with ..

Each day offers encouragement and hope from a Savior who is closer than you can imagine and who will never leave you.  Grow in a deep personal faith while reading a message that everyone needs to hear and embrace deep within the soul. Jesus Calling® is a devotional that is read daily by millions of people. This version includes the beloved original content, but with a modern cover that will appeal to a younger audience. After many years of writing in her prayer journal, missionary Sarah Young decided to listen to God with pen in hand, writing down whatever she believed He was saying to her. It was awkward at first, but gradually her journaling changed from monologue to dialogue. She knew her writings were not inspired as Scripture is, but journaling helped her grow closer to God, and from that experience Jesus Calling® came to be. It is Sarah’s fervent prayer that our Savior may bless every reader with His presence and His peace in ever deeper measure. Meets national education stan..

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At. Augustin grates hard against “the anatomy of evil” while dealing succinctly and honestly with his own proneness toward sin.  From his infatuation with its initial beauty to the discounting of his previously wasyed life, Augustine leaves little to the imagination regarding his need to be saved from himself. Most of Augustine’s Confessions are spent in a nearly catastrophic tug-of-war. From insult and injury to passion, lost love, and absolutely perfect. Nothing has really changed since then. Sin is sill son – and God is still God...