Author: Lindsey R. Dennis
Publisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 1501869124
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Finding hope when faced with the devastating loss of your most precious dreams. At 20 weeks pregnant, Lindsey Dennis and her husband were told the child she was carrying would not live due to a fatal diagnosis. Later, in another stunning blow, they were told the same news with her second pregnancy. They chose to celebrate both lives alongside a community, both local and online, of hundreds of thousands as she carried each child to term only to bury them 14 months apart from each other. Through the crushing of their hopes and dreams, they came to know the kind of resurrection hope that can rise from the grave. This experience of infant loss revealed to Dennis how sorrow and suffering are instruments in the hands of God to forge in us a greater joy and hope than one can ever know. This kind of joy can only be discovered when we walk through the deep pain of burying our most precious dreams. Buried Dreams offers an uplifting perspective, sharing how devastating loss of personal dreams can give way to unimaginable hope and how death can give way to life. Framing her own story of staggering loss and soaring hope with biblical perspective, Dennis highlights that we can never plan for the unexpected turns of this life that sometimes lead to great personal suffering, but we can reach for the One who is there with us in the loss. Product Features: Shares how unrealized dreams can give way to unimaginable hope. Shows how sorrow and suffering are instruments in the hands of God. Rekindles hope for those who have experienced loss.
Author: Katherine Johnson
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Category : Canneries
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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This booklet explores the story behind the rise and fall of a clam cannery on the Katmai Coast. It is a collection of historical essays and photographs that offer readers a lens through which they can view the life of workers in an Alaskan cannery during the first half of the 20th century.
Author: Caleb Stanley
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310765862
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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“The Alternative is about thinking differently. Doing differently. Creating your own path. Taking paths of great resistance. And actually making a difference in the lives around us … and in the world at large.” —Caleb Stanley and Austin Dennis The Alternative: Awaken Your Dreams, Unite Your Community and Live in Hope focuses on the big issues in life: friendship, dating, anxiety, self-esteem, faith, and the future—to name a few. Caleb Stanley and Austin Dennis, cofounders of The Alternative nonprofit, bring together inspirational voices such as Jefferson Bethke, Luke Lezon, Chelsea Crockett, and more to tackle tough issues with honesty and humor. Based on the core principles of The Alterative movement, Caleb and Austin inspire readers to awaken their dreams, to unite communities in today’s tumultuous world, and to amplify hope in themselves and the people around them. In addition to advice and real-world anecdotes, this book is packed with mini-essays, Q&As, and devotions from today’s best-known faith leaders. This full-color ebook is perfect for fans of Do Hard Things and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens.
Author: Andrew R. Black
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807174084
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The Hoosac railroad tunnel in the mountains of northwestern Massachusetts was a nineteenth-century engineering and construction marvel, on par with the Brooklyn Bridge, Transcontinental Railroad, and Erie Canal. The longest tunnel in the Western Hemisphere at the time (4.75 miles), it took nearly twenty-five years (1851‒1875), almost two hundred casualties, and tens of millions of dollars to build. Yet it failed to deliver on its grandiose promise of economic renewal for the commonwealth, and thus is little known today. Andrew R. Black’s Buried Dreams refreshes public memory of the project, explaining how a plan of such magnitude and cost came to be in the first place, what forces sustained its completion, and the factors that inhibited its success. Black digs into the special case of Massachusetts, a state disadvantaged by nature and forced repeatedly to reinvent itself to succeed economically. The Hoosac Tunnel was just one of the state’s efforts in this cycle of decline and rejuvenation, though certainly the strangest. Black also explores the intense rivalry among Eastern Seaboard states for the spoils of western expansion in the post‒Erie Canal period. His study interweaves the lure of the West, the competition between Massachusetts and archrival New York, the railroad boom and collapse, and the shifting ground of state and national politics. The psychic makeup of Americans before and after the Civil War heavily influenced public perceptions of the tunnel; by the time it was finished, Black contends, the indomitable triumphalism that had given birth to the Hoosac had faded to skepticism and cynicism. Anticipated economic benefits never arrived, and Massachusetts eventually sold the tunnel for only a fraction of its cost to a private railroad company. Buried Dreams tells a story of America’s reckoning with the perils of impractical idealism, the limits of technology to bend nature to its will, and grand endeavors untempered by humility.
Author: Tererai Trent
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501145681
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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Winner of a 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, this moving manifesto “empowers women to access a fearlessness that will enable community progress” (Essence). Through one incredible woman’s journey from a small Zimbabwe village to becoming one of the world’s most recognizable voices in women’s empowerment and education, this book “can help any woman achieve her full potential” (Kirkus Reviews). Before Tererai Trent landed on Oprah’s stage as her “favorite guest of all time,” she was a woman with a forgotten dream. As a young girl in a cattle-herding village in Zimbabwe, she dreamed of receiving an education but instead was married young and by eighteen, without a high school graduation, she was already a mother of three. Tererai encountered a visiting American woman who assured her that anything was possible, reawakening her sacred dream. Tererai planted her dreams deep in the earth and prayed they would grow. They did, and now not only has she earned her PhD but she has also built schools for girls in Zimbabwe, with funding from Oprah. The Awakened Woman: A Guide for Remembering & Igniting Your Sacred Dreams is her accessible, intimate, and evocative guide that teaches nine essential lessons to encourage all women to reexamine their dreams and uncover the power hidden within them—power that can recreate our world for the better. Tererai points out that there is a massive, untapped, global resource in women who have, for one reason or another, set aside their wisdom, their skills, and their dreams in order to take care of the personal business of their lives. Not only is this a type of invisible suffering experienced by countless women, this rich resource is a secret weapon for improving our world. Women have the capacity to inspire, to create, to transform—and Tererai’s call to action “shines as a beacon of hope to women everywhere” (Danica McKellar, actress and New York Times bestselling author).
Author: Kevin Neufeld
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781096891550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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How does one go from planning a wedding to choosing songs for a funeral in a matter of hours? From choosing a wedding venue to discussing organ donation? From dreaming of happily ever after to waking daily to a living nightmare? How does one survive the whiplash and how can loved ones support one who has just entered a tragedy that only happens to someone else? In a unique combination, this daughter and father team tell the story of the birth and sudden death of what was supposed to be a storybook romance. In Buried Dreams Planted Hope, the authors honestly discuss the pain, struggles, support, divine intervention, and emerging hope found on the highway of grief. You will find in this story both an account of one who fought through grief and loss as well as those who have walked this road with her in support. Griever and caregiver alike will find hope and help in this story of tragedy and tested faith. What appears to be a death can actually be a planting. So take heart-you are not alone. You are seen and pursued by a heavenly Father who wants to turn your tragedy into triumph even though you may never find answers to all of your questions. You have not been buried. You have been planted.
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Author: Mary Clemmer
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Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Author: Edna Smith-. De Ran
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Author: Kendra Moore
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1973668351
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This book has not only been written for you, it’s about you. Imagine that you are a seed. A seed will become what it is created to be, no matter where it is planted. It is however affected by everything around it .... but that does not change what it is. There is no one else like you in the world! You are truly one of a kind. As we walk through our life’s garden, I want you to discover the amazingness that God has put inside of you. Prepare to be in awe of the magnificent gifts God has hidden in you, just waiting to be discovered. Just as a seed is in a packet, God wants to tear open the seed packet hidden inside you to reveal who He created you to be. Your beauty and purpose is just waiting to be discovered. Once discovered and nurtured to life, you will need to take impeccable care of it. It all depends on you! With the Master Gardener’s help, you are the gardener of your life. What happens to your garden depends on how you take care of it and what you allow to grow in it. Let’s walk down your garden’s path and discover your inner beauty and the garden God has planned uniquely for YOU. Are you ready? We have some gardening to do! ‘An inspirational guide for living your life like Jesus in preparation for meeting our Master Gardener!’ —Catherine Adolph, Fresh Life Church, Kalispell, Montana ‘You will find yourself captivated as you read each thought expressed in this heartfelt book, Seeds, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Thank you Kendra for reminding us of the importance of cultivating our garden daily, in order to experience every good thing the Master Gardener desires for us. Be blessed.’ —Karen Hartman, Littleton, Colorado ‘I have known this young woman, my niece, since the day she was born. Kendra was born with a song on her lips, a smile on her face, and a love for the Lord in her heart! I believe that anyone who reads this book will soon be doing the same.’ —Lonnie Shryer, Mission City Church, San Fernando, California, Promise Keepers Alumni
