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![]() ![]() When it was time to sit down and eat, my name card had been mistakenly moved. I’d been invited to serve with some ladies from my home church at a graduation ceremony for a similar type of faith-based, life-skills program for young adults transitioning into independent living. The lifeblood behind this story was birthed from a single dinner conversation in early 2019. and how God can challenge us in both.įF: What was the inspiration behind The Bridge, the fictional faith-based transitional youth home for aged-out foster kids? In All That Really Matters, my hope was to show an accurate portrayal of this ever-increasing tension between our online personas and our face-to-face relationships. ![]() The pressure to grow our personal platforms and widen our virtual sphere of influence while also trying to stay present and connected in the real-life communities God has placed us in is often an area of great frustration and confusion. ![]() Navigating the online world, and social media, in particular, is an active struggle for pretty much every person I know, myself included. What made you choose this as one of the themes for All That Really Matters? FF: The precarious balance between our online and offline presence is so relevant, especially as Christians. ![]() ![]() ![]() Boldt is a writer, career consultant, and lifetime student of Eastern philosophies, with more than a decade of experience helping people shape their dreams into practical realities. Either way, Zen Soup is sure to whet your spiritual appetite as it nourishes your soul. ![]() Read it in one gulp or savor each morsel. ![]() Each chapter includes an entertaining and informative essay that explains the principle and its application to Zen wisdom. The result is a soup of the most hearty and wholesome kind, well-seasoned with age, and filled with delicious surprises: "Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, thence lies your vocation." - Aristotle "A man with outward courage dares to die: A man with inward courage dares to live." - Lao Tzu You'll also find Flip Wilson on living in the moment Will Rogers on the beginner's mind Helen Keller on courage Chekhov on self-confidence Colette on joy. ![]() Here he applies wisdom from all corners of the world to twenty-five aspects, or qualities, associated with the Zen tradition. Laurence Boldt has long made a practice of applying Zen principles to everyday life. If, as the I Ching says, thoughts are spirits, then this collection of highly distilled thoughts from history's greatest philosophers and religious figures will certainly put you in good spirits. ![]() ![]() ![]() Philosophers and social psychologists have noted that pride is a complex secondary emotion which requires the development of a sense of self and the mastery of relevant conceptual distinctions (e.g. Augustine defined it as "the love of one's own excellence", and Meher Baba called it "the specific feeling through which egoism manifests." ![]() ![]() Richard Taylor defined pride as "the justified love of oneself", as opposed to false pride or narcissism. Oxford defines it as "the quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's own importance." This may be related to one's own abilities or achievements, positive characteristics of friends or family, or one's country. Pride is defined by Merriam-Webster as "reasonable self-esteem" or "confidence and satisfaction in oneself". Allegory of pride, from circa 1590–1630, engraving, 22.3 cm x 16.6 cm, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). (Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I suspect it's even more potent now, when the charms of the past are added to the charms of the rural life-the typical parent nowadays will have much to contrast and compare if reading aloud. ![]() It's a nice book, and while reading it you will be charmed, and not miss wheedling pigeons or magic wardrobes or horcruxes. (Slightly more exciting than normal, as they're heading into the small town later in the day, which appears to be only a weekly occurence). Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read One Morning in Maine. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. The rest of the plot is just very honest, carefully observed, tenderly illustrated, normal everyday life. One Morning in Maine - Ebook written by Robert McCloskey. Not the world's most exciting book, but a lovely, gentle slice-of-life story where nothing really important happens: the big event, revealed very early, is that Sal loses a tooth. ![]() ![]() Subsequent increased surveillance of both local and deep space has turned up nothing of consequence. To this date there have been no further incursions. The so-called "Fireflies" were not detected upon approach: there was no indication of their presence prior to the simultaneous destruction of three communications satellites in geostationary orbit several seconds prior to atmospheric impact. We have found no fragments or samples of any kind. All objects appear to have disintegrated in the atmosphere. The objects contained high concentrations of iron, judging by subsequent mesospheric elevations of that element. Mean mass per object is thought to be on the order of 2-5 kg, based upon opportunistic visual/radar profiles and observed rates of atmospheric braking prior to burn-up. Objects emitted strong omnidirectional radio signals with primary emission peaks at 35m and 394m. ![]() Objects converged in a precise latitudinal/longitudinal grid all burned up within 45 - 72 seconds of contact with upper atmosphere. ![]() ![]() The "Firefall" Event: Executive Summary Time/Date:Ħ5,536 objects of unknown (presumably extraterrestrial) origin simultaneously hit atmosphere on, 1034:43. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has said that in the end "only the judicial role really fit." Buckley, Anna Quindlen, and former President Bill Clinton.Ĭarter's first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, draws heavily on the author's familiarity with the law and the world of highly placed judges, but he didn't begin by attempting to write a "judicial" thriller- Carter earlier tried the character of Judge Garland out as a White House aide, and also as a professor like himself. ![]() His critically acclaimed nonfiction books on subjects including affirmative action, the judicial confirmation process, and the place of religion in our legal and political cultures have earned Carter fans among luminaries as diverse as William F. ![]() In 1982 he joined the faculty at Yale, where he is now William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and later for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Carter studied law at Yale University and went on to serve as a law clerk, first on the U.S. ![]() The New York Times has called him one of the nation's leading public intellectuals.īorn in Washington, D.C., Stephen L. Carter has helped shape the national debate on issues ranging from the role of religion in American political culture to the impact of integrity and civility on our daily lives. Stanford University J.D., Yale Law School ![]() ![]() There’s a lot to like about this quick-paced book filled with close calls and a twisty plot. Her current novel, Critical Alliance just solidified that for me. You can connect with Elizabeth on Facebook: Įlizabeth Goddard has become a go-to author of romantic suspense for me. To get book news sign up for her newsletter at her website: A 7th generation Texan, Elizabeth graduated from North Texas State University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and worked in high-level software sales for several years before retiring to home school her children and fulfill her dreams of writing full-time. Buried, Backfire, and Deception are finalists in the Daphne Du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense, and Submerged is a Carol Award finalist. ![]() ![]() Four of her six Mountain Cove books have been contest finalists. With over one million books sold, Elizabeth Goddard is the USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling, award-winning author of over fifty romance novels and counting. ![]() ![]() This was no simple business: the generator that powered them required its own tugboat. He had to battle to convince Spielberg to use cameras that were hand-held rather than fixed on tripods – “I told Steve … ‘You’ve never shot on water before, have you? You have no idea how seasick the audience would become if you did that’ ” – and insisted that arc lights would be needed to offset the glare of the sunlight. But having had some experience filming on water while working on Deliverance (1972), Butler realised that the young director had little knowledge of what was required. ![]() ![]() He admired Spielberg for wanting to make his shark-hunt yarn look as authentic as possible, and insisting that the studio allow him to “shoot on the open ocean, not on the backlot”. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A függés definicióját fel is használom és előrántom az egyik határfeltételt: amikor már a normális életem látja kárát, na az függőség, szóval most (se) válaszolok a messengeren senkinek időben, kiváncsi vagyok, hová jutunk el a végére. Kifejezetten vettem bérletet is a hétre, hogy a vonaton ülve tudjam olvasni két műszak között. A második fejezet óta függök a folytatásoktól és az újabb szálaktól a történetekben vagy az újabb nézőpontoktól – aaaahhh nem is ezektől igazában, ahogy éppen a könyvből tudtam meg, hogy a szer (vagy a történet maga) nem tesz függővé, hanem az űr, ami bennem lakozik és kivanja hogy megtöltsem valamivel állandóan és mindig… na hát igy van az, hogy a kettő és feledik fejezet óta nehéz letenni. Közéjük ékelve az elmélet és a szerző saját elmélete az addikcióról. Történetek és életek jönnek szembe és haladnak valamerre vagy sehová. ![]() |