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Four Takeaways And A Funeral

Author : Kerrie noor
Publisher : Kerrie noor
ISBN 13 : 1386829943
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Four Takeaways And A Funeral written by Kerrie noor and published by Kerrie noor. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mavis and Lumpy are getting married, but they can’t agree on anything. Will they learn to compromise, or will they break up over the size of their wedding cake? Mavis and Lumpy argue over everything from the venue to the size of the paper plates, and when Lumpy befriends the local Indian restaurant, their relationship spirals out of control. Mavis’s sister arrives to “sort things out”. She wins over Lumpy with hilarious budget ideas that would have Scrooge tap dancing. Mavis wants to tap dance on her sister’s head and is on the verge of throwing it all away when her mother dies. With a funeral befitting a sitcom, sibling rivalry on par with a Shakespearean tragedy, and a dying mother's impossible wish; Mavis and Lumpy’s relationship crumbles like a burnt chapatti. Will the funeral be the final straw for Mavis and Lumpy, or is there a chance for building bridges? Four Takeaways And A Funeral is the third book in the Bellydancing and Beyond series. If you like fast-paced books that make you laugh, then you will love Kerrie Noor’s wonderfully funny Bellydancing series. Buy Four Takeaways And A Funeral today and watch Mavis shimmy towards a life worth getting out of bed for.

The Downfall Of A Bellydancer

Author : Kerrie Noor
Publisher : Kerrie noor
ISBN 13 : 1540129772
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Downfall Of A Bellydancer written by Kerrie Noor and published by Kerrie noor. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nefertiti’s dance classes are empty, and her performance calendar is blank. Will she rise above the ashes of a lost dream or pull the duvet over her head and hide? At one time, Nefertiti was a dancer people queued to see. Now she runs a belly dancing class in the middle of nowhere, and the numbers have dwindled. Disappointed Nefertiti turns to her partner and ‘rock’, but he has other plans. Dropped like a hot potato, Nefertiti feels alone until she stumbles across a bag lady with a past the local's gossip about. After fifty-five years of self-absorption, Nefertiti finds herself caring for a woman who spends her days singing off-key. Until the council steps in. Nefertiti finds herself torn between the bag lady and the council, and if she plays things the wrong way, she could lose more than her dance class. Will she save the bag lady, or will she throw in the towel to appease the council? The Downfall Of A Bellydancer is the second book in the Bellydancing and Beyond series. If you like fast-paced books that make you laugh, then you will love Kerrie Noor’s wonderfully funny Bellydancing series. Buy The Downfall Of A Bellydancer today and watch Nefertiti shimmy towards a life worth getting out of bed for.

Planet Hy Man Box Set Book 1-3

Author : Kerrie A Noor
Publisher : Kerrie noor
ISBN 13 : 1386884537
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Planet Hy Man Box Set Book 1-3 written by Kerrie A Noor and published by Kerrie noor. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Rule But For How Long? Mex had been looking forward to a well-earned rest after saving planet Hy Man. But now, thanks to Beryl, she has been sent on a mission that will ruin her career with a robot who rubs her up the wrong way. Beryl is the leader of planet Hy Man and fighting to remain so.; the planet’s energy is on its' last legs and chapping at her heels to take over is the ruthless Hilda. A woman with a personality as bad her haircut and will do anything to get her way... Three books spanning the ambitions of three women who are desperate to beat, win and rule; the only problem is that men get in the way. Kerrie Noor's Planet Hy Man series is a Sci-Fi comedy where every hero is a woman old enough to know better and old enough not to care.

Bellydancing And Beyond Boxset

Author : Kerrie Noor
Publisher : Kerrie noor
ISBN 13 : 1540114236
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Bellydancing And Beyond Boxset written by Kerrie Noor and published by Kerrie noor. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three books, three comedies with all your favorite characters from the Belly Dancing and Beyond series- laugh-out-loud stories about a group of women who have at one time or another danced with the great Nefertiti. Indulge in the laughter, love, and drama as these three captivating stories unfold against the backdrop of the Belly Dancing. Each book is a stand-alone adventure, but together they weave a tapestry of friendship, sisterhood, and the enduring power of dance. Whether you're a fan of sequins, romance, or simply enjoy a good belly laugh, this series has it all. Book 1- Sheryl's Last Stand "A poignant romantic comedy." ★★★★★ “The voice is Scottish urban girl snark." ★★★★★ "Good read, funny, fast-paced, zany characters." ★★★★★ Book 2-The Downfall Of A Bellydancer "Funny, witty, and rapid-paced." ★★★★★ "Funny, Poignant, and charming!" ★★★★★ "Laugh out loud funny." ★★★★★ Book 3-Four Takeaways And A Funeral< "A fun and captivating comedy." ★★★★★ "Great British rom-com." ★★★★★ An adorable comedy about sibling rivalry and Indian food." ★★★★★

Four Chancellors and a Funeral

Author : Russell Jones
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800183097
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Four Chancellors and a Funeral written by Russell Jones and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the Tories, could it get any worse? Spoiler – it does. Towards the end of 2021, Britain had been frogmarched into an escalating series of surreal calamities. Brexit was a disaster, the NHS was in crisis, the government was bathed head-to-toe in impropriety, senior Tories were still acting as though the public purse was their personal feed-trough, and the air crackled with anger about PartyGate. All of which led to an inglorious start to 2022: the year the UK saw two monarchs, three prime ministers and four chancellors. From Boris Johnson, who trashed our international reputation and handed billions to his mates so they could ineptly fight a pandemic while he stayed at home, shagging and acting as a super-spreader; to Liz Truss, a drive-by prime minister who managed to kill off the queen and crash the economy in a single week. And now we’re led by Rishi Sunak, who doesn’t know how to use a credit card, drives a pretend car, and grinningly promises even more poverty. Four Chancellors and a Funeral delivers more of Russell Jones’s signature scathing wit, combining a detailed historical record of 2021 and 2022, with acerbic commentary, all of it leavened by jokes at the seemingly endless maelstrom of failures, nincompoops and hypocrisies.

The Four Ways Forward

Author : Susan Windley-Daoust
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN 13 : 1681927160
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book The Four Ways Forward written by Susan Windley-Daoust and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An increasingly post-Christian world is forcing parishes to re-envision how they “make disciples of all nations” (Mt 28:19). Pastors and lay leadership must pivot to building mission-first parishes, equipped to proclaim the Gospel to those who have not heard it — while the number of practicing Catholics falls with increasing speed. Parish leaders are hungry for programs and resources to help address these challenges. Yet no single model or program can suit every parish, and leaders are bogged down with options, many of which offer no clear goals or methods. In The Four Ways Forward, Susan Windley-Daoust, theologian and diocesan director of missionary discipleship, provides a road map to pastors and parish staff to make sense of it all. To become an apostolic parish, there are four effective models to choose from, each built on a distinct, necessary insight and method in the art of conversion: Radical hospitality and proclamation ? The practice of spiritual multiplication ? Organizational mission (re)focus ? Highlighting divine signs and wonders in our midst Every fruitful, joyful, evangelizing parish should embrace the insights and methods of at least three of the four models. This book not only describes each model, giving examples of how it is being used in parishes today, but offers a practical blueprint toward crafting a response to the post-Christian world, including notes on spiritual roadblocks that can get in the way.

Notes on Grief

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593320816
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Notes on Grief written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided” (The Washington Post). Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page—and never without touches of rich, honest humor—Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book—a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever—and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.

Four Takeaways and a Funeral

Author : Kerrie Noor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781719175173
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Four Takeaways and a Funeral written by Kerrie Noor and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mavis and Lumpy are getting married. It is to be a small affair with a hot and spicy theme, a few close friends, and a celebrant on Skype. "We want no fuss," says Mavis, "just lots of food, great photos and belly-dancing."However...Mavis idea of hot and spicy is not Lumpy's idea and Lumpy's idea of great photo's is definitely not Mavis's. Nefertiti wants to help. Sheryl gives advice, but their idea of help is Mavis's idea of making things worse.

Dead End in Norvelt

Author : Jack Gantos
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 142996250X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Dead End in Norvelt written by Jack Gantos and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launced on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder. Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air.

Option B

Author : Sheryl Sandberg
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1524732699
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Option B written by Sheryl Sandberg and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life’s inevitable setbacks After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.” Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build. Option B combines Sheryl’s personal insights with Adam’s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Beginning with the gut-wrenching moment when she finds her husband, Dave Goldberg, collapsed on a gym floor, Sheryl opens up her heart—and her journal—to describe the acute grief and isolation she felt in the wake of his death. But Option B goes beyond Sheryl’s loss to explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war. Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere . . . and to rediscover joy. Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B illuminates how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces. Many of these lessons can be applied to everyday struggles, allowing us to brave whatever lies ahead. Two weeks after losing her husband, Sheryl was preparing for a father-child activity. “I want Dave,” she cried. Her friend replied, “Option A is not available,” and then promised to help her make the most of Option B. We all live some form of Option B. This book will help us all make the most of it.

The Chronologically Challenged Funeral Director

Author : Molly Cutpurse
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445769263
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book The Chronologically Challenged Funeral Director written by Molly Cutpurse and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a lone and eccentric woman scientist from ninety-four years in the future, a devastating curse from a thousand old family who practise Wicca, a present day hypochondriac young funeral director (the spitting image of Eric Morecambe) whose business is in Southend-on-sea, and the love of his life who doesn't want him. Mix in the erotic dance of the tango, a comic journey that can only lead to an uncertain doom, and you have, The chronologically challenged funeral director.

I Want to Say a Few Words: How To Craft a Heartfelt Eulogy for a Loved One's Funeral

Author : Peter Billingham
Publisher : Peter Billingham
ISBN 13 : 1913911454
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book I Want to Say a Few Words: How To Craft a Heartfelt Eulogy for a Loved One's Funeral written by Peter Billingham and published by Peter Billingham. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you worrying about how to find the words to honour your loved one’s life? Would a gentle and straightforward step-by-step process of writing a few words help you through this difficult time? Does the idea of standing up and speaking about your loved one in front of others seem daunting? If you answer yes, then this book is for you. You are now no longer alone in your desire to speak about a loved one. “I Want to Say A Few Words: How To Craft a Heartfelt Eulogy for a Loved One’s Funeral” serves as your compassionate companion in this important journey. More Than A Template - It's a thoughtful and reflective process. This is far more than a ‘fill in the blanks eulogy template’ process. It’s an invitation to reflect, remember, and write from the heart about your loved one. Even if you have never spoken in public before and fear doing so. This book is not about rushing through to a finished eulogy. It aims to offer you a thoughtful, measured approach to writing a eulogy for your loved one’s funeral that is as unique as the life it celebrates. Writing A Heartfelt Eulogy Becomes Easier With This Toolkit. It provides a simple four-step process and sixteen practical worksheets to help you create a memorable and heartfelt tribute. Whether it’s a eulogy for a grandparent, eulogy for a sibling, eulogy for a spouse, eulogy for dad, or a eulogy for a family member. How will reading and working through this book help you? It will help you: Gain the confidence to write a heartfelt tribute that honours your loved one. Reflect on their impact and articulate it that does justice to their unique spirit and personality. Tap into memories and explore eulogy ideas. Find inspiration with sixteen practical worksheets to walk you through every step. Create a eulogy that soothes the hearts of others and celebrates a life well-lived. What's included in this book: ✓ An invitation to reflect, remember, and write from the heart. ✓ A four-step process and sixteen practical worksheets to help you craft a memorable eulogy. ✓ A compassionate professional eulogy writer who has crafted over 700 eulogies to guide you. ✓ An empathetic approach to writing a eulogy. ✓ 169 pages - A4 size workbook with lots of space for making notes and capturing memories. ✓ Free 34 page PDF download of all worksheets and supporting resources in eBook. As you reflect on your loved one, an empathetic professional eulogy writer who has crafted over 700 eulogies gently guides you. The author packs every page with experience, understanding, and helpful advice, so you're never alone on your writing journey. “I Want to Say A Few Words” helps you explore eulogy ideas, capture the essence of your loved one’s life, their joys, their journey, their legacy. It encourages you to tap into memories. To reflect on their impact, and to articulate it all in a way that does justice to their unique spirit and personality. Writing a heartfelt eulogy that honours the life of your loved one starts with this book.

Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies

Author :
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031481291
Total Pages : 2291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies written by and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-10-12 with total page 2291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work is an important resource in the growing field of heroism studies. It presents concepts, research, and events key to understanding heroism, heroic leadership, heroism development, heroism science, and their relevant applications to businesses, organizations, clinical psychology, human wellness, human growth potential, public health, social justice, social activism, and the humanities. The encyclopedia emphasizes five key realms of theory and application: Business and organization, focusing on management effectiveness, emotional intelligence, empowerment, ethics, transformational leadership, product branding, motivation, employee wellness, entrepreneurship, and whistleblowers; clinical-health psychology and public health, focusing on stress and trauma, maltreatment, emotional distress, bullying, psychopathy, depression, anxiety, family disfunction, chronic illness, and healthcare workers’ wellbeing; human growth and positive psychology, discussing altruism, authenticity, character strengths, compassion, elevation, emotional agility, eudaimonia, morality, empathy, flourishing, flow, self-efficacy, joy, kindness, prospection, moral development, courage, and resilience; social justice and activism, highlighting anti-racism, anti-bullying, civil disobedience, civil rights heroes, climate change, environmental heroes, enslavement heroes, human rights heroism, humanitarian heroes, inclusivity, LGBTQ+ heroism, #metoo movement heroism, racism, sustainability, and women’s suffrage heroes; and humanities, relating to the mythic hero’s journey, bliss, boon, crossing the threshold, epic heroes, fairy tales, fiction, language and rhetoric, narratives, mythology, hero monomyth, humanities and heroism, religious heroes, and tragic heroes.

The Journey Through Grief

Author : Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher : Companion Press
ISBN 13 : 1617220973
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Journey Through Grief written by Alan D. Wolfelt and published by Companion Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spiritual companion for mourners affirms their need to mourn and invites them to journey through their very unique and personal grief. Detailed are the six needs that all mourners must yield to and eventually embrace if they are to go on to find continued meaning in life and living, including the need to remember the deceased loved one and the need for support from others. Short explanations of each mourning need are followed by brief, spiritual passages that, when read slowly and reflectively, help mourners work through their unique thoughts and feelings. Also included in this revised edition are journaling sections for mourners to write out their personal responses to each of the six needs. This replaces 1879651114.

Exploring Management

Author : John R. Schermerhorn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470878215
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Management written by John R. Schermerhorn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary goal of this edition of Exploring Managementis to help build core management competencies for today's global and more complex workplace, including issues related to planning, organizing, leading, and controlling (POLC) - with more hands-on type materials such as cases, exercises, and application. Schermerhorn uses a conversational and interactive writing style to master concepts in a bite-size and fundamental approach. This text presents managerial concepts and theory in a straight-forward, interesting style with a strong emphasis on application. The discussion of theory is framed in a unique, engaging, and concise way. The goal is to promote critical thinking and ability to make sound business decisions using managerial theory. Concepts are explored and reinforced by most hands-on applications, exercises, cases, and the integration of technology. The text also focuses on the most important aspects of the POLC model, emphasizing skill-building.

Limping with God

Author : Chad Bird
Publisher : New Reformation Publications
ISBN 13 : 194896984X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Limping with God written by Chad Bird and published by New Reformation Publications. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we look to the Bible for role models in our daily discipleship, we tend to think of Noah's obedience and David's bravery. Limping With God: Jacob and the Old Testament Guide to Messy Discipleship posits that we can also look to Jacob. Jacob seems to be anything but a model disciple, though we can learn a lot from his journey. He's a trickster, liar, and selfishly ambitious man who fathers children with four women and leads a dysfunctional family rife with jealousy and backstabbing. But Jacob is also Israel, the namesake of the Old Testament community of God, chosen and blessed. As such, this sinner-saint, who limps along with the Lord, burdened by weakness and beset by problems, is the mirror image of all of us who follow Jesus. In Jacob's life we see our lives, our struggles, our failures, and most especially the God who loves us and chooses us as his own. As we explore his bio, from his wrangling in the womb with Esau to his death as an old man in Egypt, we will learn more about ourselves and the God who is with us and for us in Jesus the Messiah. From the author: "I have entitled this book Limping With God instead of Walking With God or Running With God, not because there would be anything wrong with those metaphors, but because, as Jacob limped away from his famous wrestling match with God, so we all get by on bum hips and bad knees. Following Jesus, we gimp our way down the dark and slippery paths of life. As we do, we discover, ironically, that the longer we follow him, the weaker we become, and the more we lean on our Lord. Finally, at our most mature, our eyes are opened to realize that we've never run or walked or even limped a single day of our lives. "We've been on Christ's shoulders the entire time."

Sand Talk

Author : Tyson Yunkaporta
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062975633
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Sand Talk written by Tyson Yunkaporta and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living. As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important questions. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently? In this thoughtful, culturally rich, mind-expanding book, he provides answers. Yunkaporta’s writing process begins with images. Honoring indigenous traditions, he makes carvings of what he wants to say, channeling his thoughts through symbols and diagrams rather than words. He yarns with people, looking for ways to connect images and stories with place and relationship to create a coherent world view, and he uses sand talk, the Aboriginal custom of drawing images on the ground to convey knowledge. In Sand Talk, he provides a new model for our everyday lives. Rich in ideas and inspiration, it explains how lines and symbols and shapes can help us make sense of the world. It’s about how we learn and how we remember. It’s about talking to everyone and listening carefully. It’s about finding different ways to look at things. Most of all it’s about a very special way of thinking, of learning to see from a native perspective, one that is spiritually and physically tied to the earth around us, and how it can save our world. Sand Talk include 22 black-and-white illustrations that add depth to the text.