The vantage point is wholly familiar, yet new and fresh. My voice is that of a mediocre athlete who can hold his own but to save his life cannot run fast , and whose sensibilities ignite when the game is on.
This familiarity and intensity let readers watch and play at the same time, and hardly notice the difference. Something in each chapter has happened to them, too, and is worth remembering. She's used to losing in love, and past believing in fairy tales. So she's sure the handsome plain-talking man she encounters on her lunch break is just a shy eccentric Tony Santangelo's special way of seeing the world helps him make connections others don't—and turn them into mega-hit songs.
But he never realized how lonely he was until he got a glimpse of Trina's honesty and caring nature—and went way out of his comfort zone to find her. And coping with his overprotective brother and overwhelming celebrity means he and Trina must face trouble head on, insist on their dreams, and write their own one-of-a-kind forever-after song When he asks his neighbor Carmen for a snack, he's at first disappointed when she hands him an apple - he wanted candy! But when encouraged to carefully and attentively look, feel, smell, taste, and even listen to the apple, Elliot discovers that this apple is not ordinary at all.
Lushly and humorously illustrated, No Ordinary Apple makes a traditional technique for training mindfulness a fun and enjoyable way for children to learn to slow down and appreciate even the simplest things. Faye Martin never expected her husband to abandon her and their three children. So when her four-year-old daughter is discovered through a YouTube video and offered a starring role on a television series, it seems like her prayers have been answered.
But when the reality of their new life settles in, Faye realizes that fame and fortune don't come without a price. In a world where everyone is an actor and every move is scrutinized by millions, it's impossible to know whom to trust, and Faye finds herself utterly alone in her struggle to save her family.
What if the moments that seem the most ordinary moments of annoyance, conflict, pain, or cold indifference could become moments in which you're able to understand God's incredible agenda for love and begin to do something new? Winston T. Smith, drawing on his extensive experience as a marriage counselor, offers a simple yet powerful prescription for changing your marriage.
He shows how examining the everyday disappointments and irritations in your marriage will help you understand yourself, your spouse, and your need for God's love.
Change begins with seeing day-to-day interactions from a different perspective, taking simple steps to love one another more effectively, and then learning how to take those steps over and over again. Interactions that used to devolve into pointless annoyances and fights can become an opportunity for God's activity and love to become increasingly evident and powerful.
The principles in this book will take your marriage to extraordinary places and lead you into a deeper relationship with an extraordinary God. Don't settle for an ordinary marriage, learn to live out God's extraordinary love in your most intimate relationship. Debt-ridden author, Nyomi must complete her book on Tokyo's underground sex industry in order to revive her stalled career. But first, she needs to get permission from Kenji Soto, head of the Japanese mafia who controls the red-light district under his father's watchful eyes.
With one meeting, Kenji traps Nyomi in his gaze and locks her into a deal-spend time with him during her three-week stay, and she will earn the access she needs in order to make her book a bestseller.
But Kenji's plans for Nyomi not only include allowing her a look around, but also a first-hand taste of the kinds of things that go on behind closed doors. And if Nyomi isn't careful, she just might find herself falling for Kenji, a man with many demons and a passion so dark, it could change everything she thinks she knows about love.
This book is intended for mature audiences. This stunning collection will break your heart and put it back together again, as Pamela Porter unravels a long-held family secret in a moving personal search for redemption, face to face with the question of her own identity. What song will she choose? She gets inspiration from the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Melody learns that [some people are] not welcome in certain neighborhoods because they're black.
Just as Melody's ready to sing, an unimaginable tragedy leaves her silent. Can she find her voice when it really matters? For many of us, life seems like a puzzle with missing pieces.
At some point, we ask ourselves the central question: What is the purpose of my life? Few writers approach the topic of life purpose with the clarity of Dan Millman, whose prior book The Life You Were Born to Live has reached more than a million readers worldwide. This book is for anyone seeking deeper insight into themselves and their lives, but especially for those at a crossroads, facing a challenge or change, when past approaches no longer work.
Skip to content. No Ordinary Moments. No Ordinary Moments Book Review:. Peaceful Warrior. Peaceful Warrior Book Review:. Way of the Peaceful Warrior. Way of the Peaceful Warrior Book Review:. No Ordinary Game. No Ordinary Game Book Review:. No Ordinary Love. Author : J. No Ordinary Love Book Review:. No matter what the circumstance, you always have a choice to turn any chaos around to achieve contentment, joy, and abundance. You can read this book from start to finish, or you can simply take a deep breath and turn to the page that offers a message you most need at this moment.
Trust the process, trust yourself, and know there are no mistakes. You are exactly where you should be this moment. Start from where you are because that is where your power lies. Enjoy my words from my heart to yours. Small beginnings. Detours along the way. Questions about how and when God is going to fulfill His purposes. He had to trust that God sometimes allows years to go by between an anointing and a crown.
In Walking to Jerusalem, Dr. Along the way, you will discover, or reawaken, your own unique calling. You will more fully understand the places you have already traveled, become attuned to the spiritual city where God has you now, and be better equipped for where God is leading you. Walking to Jerusalem reminds us that where we start does not determine where we end up. Each step we take is a part of who we will become. So journey with David from his Bethlehem beginnings to his Jerusalem home.
Discover with this shepherd boy that destiny is never just a destination. Can Ordinary Marriages Become Extraordinary? He snapped at her during breakfast. She brought up a past mistake. He walked out angry. She left without saying good-bye. An ordinary day in an ordinary marriage. But what if things could be different? What if the moments that seem the most ordinary moments of annoyance, conflict, pain, or cold indifference could become moments in which you're able to understand God's incredible agenda for love and begin to do something new?
Winston T. Smith, drawing on his extensive experience as a marriage counselor, offers a simple yet powerful prescription for changing your marriage. He shows how examining the everyday disappointments and irritations in your marriage will help you understand yourself, your spouse, and your need for God's love.
Change begins with seeing day-to-day interactions from a different perspective, taking simple steps to love one another more effectively, and then learning how to take those steps over and over again. Interactions that used to devolve into pointless annoyances and fights can become an opportunity for God's activity and love to become increasingly evident and powerful.
The principles in this book will take your marriage to extraordinary places and lead you into a deeper relationship with an extraordinary God. Don't settle for an ordinary marriage, learn to live out God's extraordinary love in your most intimate relationship.
Let this compilation of his reflections do for you what Joe has done for me. A newborn does not know she is alive.
There is no realization factor; for the infant is, as if it was, unconscious. An irresistible instinct impels her as she becomes a woman; her life takes a deep plunge felt by the indifferent blows of tragedy, such as dying at a young age, starvation, physical and emotional abuse, financial ruin, automobile accident, divorce and homelessness and the list goes through many situations. Each predicament centers on the story of someone who came into her life.
She did not write these thoughts from a palace. Miriam wrote them while she was going through the roughest times in her life; in journals, on napkins, and on cardboard, on the streets of emptiness. Her life changes degree as she starts reflecting on her life which propels her into a voyage of the true-self discovery, finding and then knowing the source of life is God. Life is not about finding yourself; it is about discovering who God created you to be. Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Nick Nolte.
Over the years, readers have asked many compelling questions about mysterious elements in his bestselling classic. In this powerful new work, Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior, Dan selected one hundred key passages and added incisive commentaries to clarify the timeless teachings of his old mentor, Socrates. With practical wisdom gained over the passing decades, Dan now shares fresh insights that readers can apply directly to their everyday lives.
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