Peace is an Offering

Peace is an Offering
Author: Annette LeBox
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0698408845

A warm, comforting poem about finding peace in a community of neighbors Peace is an offering. A muffin or a peach. A birthday invitation. A trip to the beach. Join this group of neighborhood children as they find love in everyday things—in sunlight shining through the leaves and cookies shared with friends—and learn that peace is all around, if you just look for it. With rhyming verse and soft illustrations, this book will help families and teachers look for the light moments when tragedy strikes and remind readers of the calm and happiness they find in their own community every day.

An Offering

An Offering
Author: Allison Pittman
Publisher: NavPress
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2017-07-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496423925

1504, Brunnendorf, Germany Eight year-old Therese longs for a home. Fatherless and living in one, small room with her mother, Therese is sent to visit her grandparents in the next town when men come to visit. She’s hoping this man will be the one who marries her mother and gives them a home. But on this day, while heading to her grandparents, she stops to pick up vegetables that have fallen off a passing wagon and is accused of being a beggar and attacked with stones. Rescued by a nun from the local convent, she brings Therese to the church, where she is cared for. In the loving arms of the nun, Therese wishes she could stay. Leaving the convent for her grandparent’s house, Therese is welcomed in for the first time. Again, she longs to make this her home along with her mother, but realizes that grace and forgiveness don’t come easy. What must be sacrificed to see her dream come true?

An Offering Made by Fire

An Offering Made by Fire
Author: Dave Dungan
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2009-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1607918145

Prophecy pages are turning! As each page rests upon the other, events begin to unfold all around us. Fear is replacing the peace that has kept our borders and it's amazing at what freedoms we are willing to give up, just to feel safe. With the ever-growing economic uncertainties, we as believers are supposed to be at peace so that an unbelieving world might ask concerning the hope that is within us. Yet today, we find more than ever that the church is hurting and is just as uncertain about the future as everyone else. Our joy has been replaced by anxiety and what was once so clear has now become a cloudy gray. We struggle to remain true to the convictions of those who shed their blood defending them. The body of Christ is at a crossroads. The syncretism of religion declares that there are many faces to God but only one voice, and these falsehoods are pushing the believer to make a stand! Resistance to this path labels one as a fanatic and a radical. What are we as followers of Christ supposed to be doing and what is our hope? Dave Dungan answers some of these questions scripturally as we see that we were created to minister to God His Glory and not our own. We are to be a living sacrifice so that we might be prepared "An Offering Made by Fire," a sweet smell to a most Holy God.

The Offering

The Offering
Author: Grace McCleen
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1444770012

It was the year when Madeline's family moved to an island her father believed God had guided him to. It was a place where she revelled in the natural beauty of their surroundings. It was a time of euphoria, but also of successive disasters. It was the night Madeline turned fourteen, when she did something she thought would save her beloved mother. Something so traumatic that she cannot now recall it, but her suave new psychiatrist thinks he knows how to unlock her memory. He is treading on very dangerous ground.

A Musical Offering

A Musical Offering
Author: Luis Sagasti
Publisher: Charco Press
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1916277810

A lyrical celebration of storytelling, of childhood, and of the transformative power of music. Tracing a circular course that echoes Bach’s Goldberg Variations , Luis Sagasti’s second book to appear in English takes the guise of a musical scheherazade, recounting story after story, vibrating to celestial harmonies. From the music born of the sun to the music sent into space on the Voyager mission, from Rothko to rock music, from the composers of the concentration camps to a weeping room for Argentinian conscripts in the Falklands, A Musical Offering traverses the shifting sands of fiction and history.

The Offering

The Offering
Author: Angela Hunt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2013-05-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439182086

One innocent mistake… a lifetime of consequences. After growing up an only child, Amanda Lisandra wants a big family. But since she and her soldier husband can’t afford to have more children right away, Mandy decides to earn money as a gestational carrier for a childless couple. She loves being pregnant, and while carrying the child, she dreams of having her own son and maybe another daughter. . . . Just when the nearly perfect pregnancy is about to conclude, unexpected tragedy enters Mandy’s world and leaves her reeling. Devastated by grief, she surrenders the child she was carrying and struggles to regain her emotional equilibrium. Two years later she studies a photograph of the baby she bore and wonders if the unthinkable has happened—could she have inadvertently given away her own biological child? Over the next few months Mandy struggles to decide between the desires of her grief-stricken heart and what’s best for the little boy she has never known.

AN OFFERING OF POWER: VALUABLE, UNUSUAL MEDITATION METHODS

AN OFFERING OF POWER: VALUABLE, UNUSUAL MEDITATION METHODS
Author: Jack Bragen
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2018-12-11
Genre:
ISBN: 0359285678

Jack Bragen is a columnist for the Berkeley Daily Planet, and for the past 17 years running, is a frequent contributor to The Street Spirit Newspaper. His essays and fiction have also appeared in Bewildering Stories, Daily Science Fiction, East Bay Times/Contra Costa Times, Mindfulness Bell, and more... In this work, he explores the inward frontiers of the human mind. He has practiced self-directed meditation since 1983, yet has not practiced under a master. This could be disqualifying, or... maybe not. The truisms in this work, in some instances are very familiar, while, in other instances, they could be quite unique. You decide...