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Love the Shit Out of Yourself: Because Your Life Depends On It
by Zoey Arielle PoulsenYouTube star Zoey Arielle shares her wisdom on taking control, building your self-esteem, and changing your life for the better. If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed and drained by the busyness of life with too many demands, you need to stop in your tracks and do an attitude adjustment, or more specifically a &‘gratitude adjustment.&’ Whenever you have gotten to this point, you have need for some &‘me TLC&’ and a dose of radical self-care. Chances are, your very wonderfulness might have led you to give and give and give and give. Now, you need to give and give and give to yourself. You need to soak up the glory of your very being and remember that you are an amazing, awesome person and deserving of all good things! —from Love the Sh!t Out of Yourself As the world keeps changing all around us with increasing speed, many of us are so busy doing and being productive and bullet journaling our way through life that we feel on the edge of overwhelm. Zoey Arielle Poulsen has been there and back again—and on her journey, she gathered a lot of wisdom. Her big takeaway: When you build your self-esteem with daily affirmations, you can rule the world. More importantly, you can live a life filled with love, joy, fulfillment, and satisfaction thanks to your own positive self-regard. Like a muscle, the more you do it, the stronger your confidence and sense of self will be. Love the Sh*t Out of Yourself is filled with positive affirmations and wise words with the power to touch our hearts, make us laugh, and alleviate our stress, while helping us realize the vast potential life has to offer. Grouped together, these quips, quotes, and &“power thoughts&” can help you deal with everything life throws at you with élan. Simply put, you&’ll be too blessed to be stressed!
Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (Sexual Cultures #39)
by Janet R. Jakobsen Ann PellegriniSex. Religion. There is no denying that these two subjects are among the most provocative in American public life. Even the constitutional principle of church-state separation seems to give way when it comes to sex: the Supreme Court draws on theology as readily as it draws on case law when rendering decisions that touch on sexuality.In this compelling and carefully argued study, Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini examine this powerful and disturbing connection as they explore the reasons why secular institutions habitually use religion to regulate sexual life. From state legislatures to the halls of Congress and the Supreme Court, from daily newspapers to popular magazines and television talk shows, Jakobsen and Pellegrini illustrate the intensity of America's obsession with sex in the name of values and the dangers it poses to some of our most basic freedoms. Using a wide range of case studies, Love the Sin offers an insightful critique of the ways in which sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular are discussed and debated in the public arena. Additionally, the book sets forth constructive alternatives that highlight the vital links between sexual and religious freedom and expose the hazards of using religion as a justification for regulating sexuality.A timely, necessary, and refreshing contribution to the many debates surrounding religion, morality, and sex, Love the Sin boldly dreams an America that lives up to its promise of freedom and justice for all.
Love to Stay
by Adam HamiltonIn this book, Adam Hamilton explores how, with God's help, we can make love last. Drawing upon a survey of thousands of couples and singles, interviews with relationship and marriage therapists, the latest research in the field, and wisdom from the Bible, Hamilton looks at what it takes to create and sustain healthy, meaningful romantic relationships across the course of a lifetime. Contents include: More Than a Piece of Paper; What She Wants; What He Wants; The Significance of Sexual Intimacy; Habits That Hurt, Habits That Heal; Clothe, Bear With, and Forgive; A Love That Lasts a Lifetime
Love to Stay: Six Keys to a Successful Marriage (Love to Stay)
by Adam HamiltonIn this book, Adam Hamilton explores how, with God’s help, we can make love last. Drawing upon a survey of thousands of couples and singles, interviews with relationship and marriage therapists, the latest research in the field, and wisdom from the Bible, Hamilton looks at what it takes to create and sustain healthy, meaningful romantic relationships across the course of a lifetime.Contents include:More Than a Piece of PaperWhat She Wants; What He WantsThe Significance of Sexual IntimacyHabits That Hurt, Habits That HealClothe, Bear With, and ForgiveA Love That Lasts a Lifetime
Love to Water My Soul (Dreamcatcher Ser.)
by Jane KirkpatrickBased on historical characters and events, Love to Water My Soul recounts the dramatic story of an abandoned white child rescued by Indians. Among Oregon's Paiute people, Shell Flower seeks love and a place of belonging...only to be cast away from her home.A remakable story of God's constancy and provision for all lovers of history, romance and faith... Based on historical characters and events, Love to Water My Soul recounts the dramatic story of an abandoned white child rescued by Indians. Among Oregon's Paiute people, Shell Flower seeks love and a pace of belonging...only to be cast away from her home. In the years that follow, she faces a new life in the world of the white man--a life filled with both attachment and loss--yet finds that God faithfully unites her with a love that fills all longing in this heartwarming sequel to Jane Kirkpatrick's award-winner, A Sweetness to the Soul.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Love's Abiding Joy (Love Comes Softly #4)
by Janette OkeA birthday surprise, a new journey west, and a delightful reunion! But then comes tragedy.... Love's Abiding Joy: Marty and Clark Davis's daughter Missie and her husband had homesteaded land in the far West, many weeks' journey away by covered wagon. But with the coming of the frontier railroad, the miles are suddenly bridged, making possible their long-awaited reunion. Grandparents Marty and Clark are thrilled to meet their two little grandsons for the first time. Missie, anxious to hear news from home, plies her mother with questions about her brothers and sisters. And as Willie proudly shows the two visitors around his successful ranch, Missie, just as proudly, shows them the little soddy that was their original home. But the joyful reunion is shattered by a tragic accident.... Will they ever be a happy family again? A Gentle Story of Faith and Love and Joy in the Midst of the Swirling Storm of Life.
Love's Abundant Harvest (Spirit of the Amish #2)
by Beth ShriverWill setback and loss help Lucy learn the true meaning of Christian fellowship...and love? When a fire takes Lucy&’s livelihood and the life of her overbearing husband, she is on her own with a baby on the way. Overwhelmed with all the responsibilities of the farm, she goes to stay with her grandmother. There, she feels safe and gets to know Manny, a handsome widower who checks in on the ladies. Lucy&’s shy and gentle ways are appealing to Manny, but acceptinglove and affection comes hard for her. Will spending time withher grandmother&’s wise friends teach her the true meaning ofChristian fellowship and love?
Love's Alchemy
by Sabrineh Fideler David FidelerWorking from the original Persian sources, translators and scholars David and Sabrineh Fideler offer faithful, elegant translations that represent the full scope of Sufi poetry. These concise, tightly focused meditations span only a few lines but reveal worlds of meaning. The poems explore many aspects of human life and the spiritual path, but they center on the liberating power of love.
Love's Braided Dance: Hope in a Time of Crisis
by Norman WirzbaA moving exploration of the place of hope in the world today, drawing on agrarian principles In this series of meditations, Norman Wirzba recasts hope not as something people have, like a vaccine to prevent pain and trouble, but as something people do. Hope evaporates in conditions of abandonment and abuse. It grows in contexts of nurture and belonging. Hope ignites when people join in what Wendell Berry calls &“love&’s braided dance&”—a commitment to care for one another and our world. Through personal narratives and historical examples, Wirzba explores what sustains hope and why it so often seems absent from our vision of the future. The vitality of hope, he maintains, depends on a collective commitment to care for the physical world (its soils and waters, plants and animals, homes and neighborhoods) and to promote the moral, aesthetic, and spiritual ideals that affirm life as good, beautiful, and sacred. Engaging with such contemporary topics as climate change, AI and social media, and the intensifying refugee crises and drawing on the wisdom of James Baldwin, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Martha Graham, and others, Wirzba offers a powerful argument for hope as a way of life in which people are intimately and practically joined with all the living.
Love's Calling: A Journey to Self
by Elizabeth GriffinJoin Elizabeth Griffin as she jumps into the unknown in search of....Love. Following inspiration she travels and ends up halfway around the world in Italy. A diagnosis of breast cancer changes the panorama of her outlook completely. She discovers the true terrain of her explorations is within. It is this new perspective that leads Elizabeth to realize her journey&’s end.
Love's Daring Risk
by Lauralee BlissAARON HARRIS LIVES A SIMPLE LIFE He's always been most at home with the sea-not with beautiful, sophisticated women like reporter Madeline Casey. So Aaron can hardly believe it when the newspaperwoman from the big city seems smitten with him. But soon he begins to suspect she'll do anything to get a scoop-even feign love. Madeline's desperate to save her family's newspaper. And a breaking story about two secretive brothers and their flying machine could be just the headline she needs. But as she chases her lead with Aaron's help, Madeline just might find herself sailing toward a happily-ever-after with the rugged seaman.
Love's Drum: Sufi Views, Practices and Stories
by Pir Elias AmidonLove's Drum is an exquisite reflection on the nature of reality. With essays, practices and stories, the Sufi teacher Pir Elias Amidon leads us into the mysteries of nondual awareness, making clear its essence of unconditional acceptance.The eleventh century Sufi Abdullah Ansari suggested that Sufism is simply another word for love. In Amidon's words, it is ”what unites us with all being and becoming, and yet no matter how vast and inconceivable love is, it's still the most intimate nature of our present experience.”As he recounts events from his life, Amidon shows us the “open path” he follows—one of inclusion, lack of dogma, experiential understanding, and love in action. His life has been one of global activism in the areas of environmentalism, peace, and indigenous rights.Through quotes from mystics, poets, philosophers, and spiritual teachers; simple practices for everyone; uncommon perspectives on human life; and wonderful stories illustrating depths of wisdom, readers can have their own experience of limitless awareness and hear the subtle beating of love's drum.
Love's Dwelling (Amish Blessings #1)
by Kelly IrvinGod always had a plan. But how could falling in love with an Englischer be God&’s plan for one young Amish woman? Young Cassie Weaver only wants what is expected of an Amish woman: a good Amish husband and a large family. But she&’s happy as Job and Dinah Keim&’s housekeeper, helping Dinah, who is losing her sight due to diabetes. For two decades the Keims have prayed for the salvation of their two children who left the community in a cloud of shame and mystery. Mason knew there was more to his mother&’s past than she let on, but nothing could have prepared him for learning about his Amish roots upon his mother&’s sudden death. Even more surprising, his mother named her Amish parents, Job and Dinah, as guardians to her five children. Now Mason has to trust that this couple, and their pretty housekeeper, can take care of his younger siblings, even when all he wants is to take care of them himself. As the children adjust to this new lifestyle, Mason finds himself pulled back to the Keims&’ home. Yes, he wants to see his siblings, but it&’s the conversations with Cassie that keep him coming back for more. Is there more to this Amish faith and how does it play into his own past? Cassie guards against her growing feelings for Mason, because there can be no happy ending for a Plain girl in love with an Englisch man . . . right? Bestselling and award-winning Amish romance novelist Kelly Irvin is back with a heartwarming tale of the power of love to heal all wounds. The first in a new, sweet Amish romance seriesFull novel at 98,000 wordsIncludes discussion questions for book clubs
Love's Enduring Promise (Love Comes Softly #2)
by Janette OkeTragedy brought them together, but love bound them into a family. Love's Enduring Promise. Clark and Marty Davis, the pioneer couple thrown together after the death of their first spouses, now preside over a growing number of youngsters in their prairie home. Together they face the joys and trials of life on a homesteader's farm. Will they be able to find a suitable teacher for the long-awaited new school? Is the "very learned" Eastern preacher going to be able to communicate with the simple people of the West? And how do Clark and Marty guide their lovely daughter, now grown to womanhood, in her choice of a partner?
Love's First Bloom
by Delia ParrRuth Livingstone's life changes drastically the day her father puts a young child in her arms and sends her to a small village in New Jersey under an assumed name. There Ruth pretends to be a widow and quietly secludes herself until her father is acquitted of a crime. But with the emergence of the penny press, the imagination of the reading public is stirred, and her father's trial stands center stage. Asher Tripp is the brash newspaperman who determines that this case is the event he can use to redeem himself as a journalist. Ruth finds solace tending a garden along the banks of the Toms River--a place where she can find a measure of peace in the midst of the sorrow that continues to build. It is also here that Asher Tripp finds a temporary residence, all in an attempt to discover if the lovely creature known as Widow Malloy is truly Ruth Livingstone, the woman every newspaper has been looking for. Love begins to slowly bloom... but is the affection they share strong enough to withstand the secrets that separate them?
Love's Gentle Journey
by Kay CorneliusThe harsh beauty of the West becomes the backdrop for a romance between two Scottish immigrants in this captivating historical novel. A new world and a new way of life await young Ann McKay, as she makes the perilous journey across the ocean to the American frontier. Although she is afraid to leave the home and family that are all she has ever known, she knows that to grow she must move on. Caleb Craighead is a Scottish school-teacher, newly-ordained in the ministry. His firm beliefs and strong determination to make a difference in the world lead him to the shores of America. He feels that he has been called to this rough new land for a higher purpose. Little does he know that he will not be alone, as a special young woman comes to take her rightful place at his side.
Love's Glory: Re-creations of Rumi
by Andrew Harvey Jalal ud-Din RumiIn Love's Glory, mystical scholar Andrew Harvey presents 108 stunning short poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic and poet Rumi. Working from translations in various languages and drawing on two decades of studying Rumi's work, Harvey's "re-creations" are arranged in a dance around crucial mystical themes: nondual bliss, ordeal, ecstatic recognition, revelation, and gratitude. "These short poems by Jalal-ud-Din Rumi, humanity's most passionate and exalted mystic poet, are telegrams from Supreme Consciousness, sharp, dazzling, electric messages directly from Rumi's Awakened Heart to our own, word-mirrors held up to us by Love itself so we can glimpse our own real face."--from the Introduction
Love's Healing Touch
by Jane Myers PerrineIn the middle of a busy hospital emergency room, Dr. Ana Ramirez couldn't help but notice orderly Mike Fuller's quick skills and impressive bedside manner. And, yes, his very good looks. So she proposed a simple cup of coffee to talk about his future, never expecting to find herself wishing she were a part of it. . . But until Fuller could talk about his past -- about family secrets, sacrifices and the faith that pulled him through -- his future was on hold. As was any relationship with Ana. Or was it?
Love's Long Journey (Love Comes Softly #3)
by Janette OkeMissie's shocking discovery is not the end of the story in... Love's Long Journey. After all the planning and dreaming, Missie and Willie LaHaye were actually on the trail west in a covered wagon. Leaving behind the prairie home of Clark and Marty Davis, Missie finds herself caught between the elation of the new adventure and wondering if she'll ever see her family again. But the hardships of the trail--the rain, the mud, the impassable rivers, and even death--soon force Missie and Willie to become rugged pioneers. Missie must learn how to live her faith as she faces homesickness, boredom, and deprivation. And, then, when they finally arrive at their new home, she is pushed to the limits of her endurance.
Love's Pardon
by Darlene MindrupA SOLDIER’S PROTECTIONWhen Roman commander Lucius Tindarium finds an injured woman in the desert outside Jerusalem, he rescues her and offers her a safe haven at his mother’s home. Something about the lovely and mysterious Anna touches a chord deep inside him. But how will he safeguard his heart from the truth of her painful past?Fleeing a cruel father and an unwanted marriage, Anna is extremely grateful to the powerful warrior who saved her life. Though she knows she can never have a future with a man who’s not a believer, she cares for him deeply. Can Anna make this hardened Roman soldier believe that their love can overcome all?
Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
by Kabir Helminski Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi Ahmad RezwaniLove is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207-1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets. The poems in this collection, taken from among the master's many volumes of work, focus on one of his greatest themes: how love grows and matures for those on the spiritual path. Kabir Helminski and Ahmad Rezwani have crafted a translation that remains faithful to the original Persian while giving eloquent expression to the joy of Rumi's astonishing encounter with the Divine.
Love's Stormy Gale
by Lynette SowellTHE BRIDE'S SECOND CHANCETwo years ago, Olivia Shea was trying on her wedding gown, dreaming of marriage and motherhood. But her fisherman fiancé was lost at sea and Olivia fled, unable to stay in the New England fishing village. Now she's back in Fairport, determined to face her fears by working on a whale boat tour. But the charter's captain is the sole survivor of her fiancé's ill-fated voyage-a man of danger and memories.Jonathan Barrotta's scars from the night he nearly died run as deep as the vast Atlantic. To prove himself and to honor his friend's memory, he vows to fulfill his dream of piloting his own boat. But a life at sea means a life without Olivia-the woman he's always secretly loved. How can he ask her to be a fisherman's wife? Only with the Lord guiding their way will Jonathan and Olivia chart a course toward home-together.Faith, hope and love. If you enjoy contemporary and historical inspirational romances, look for four new stories every month from Heartsong Presents.
Love's Unending Legacy (Love Comes Softly #5)
by Janette OkeMarty and Clark Davis arrive home from a visit out west with daughter Missie knowing there are changes ahead for them. But are they prepared for the changes that already have taken place while they were gone? Clare and Kate are eagerly anticipating their new baby, but what lies ahead will test their faith in ways they never expected. Luke wants to become a doctor, but his studies will take him far from home. Ellie has blossomed into a lovely young woman, but is there a young man around worthy of her hand? And then there's Nandry, who seems to be blaming God for Clark's accident.
Love's Unfolding Dream (Love Comes Softly #6)
by Janette OkeBelinda, Marty and Clark Davis's "surprise child," has always had a tender and compassionate heart toward anything hurt or broken. Her brother, Doctor Luke, influences her toward nursing and a job as his assistant. But will she have the inner strength to face hurt and broken people whose bodies, minds, and emotions need mending? And what will happen when Belinda, Amy Jo, and Melissa all fall for the same nice fellow? Book jacket.