Surviving Grace

Surviving Grace
Author: Sarah Kacala
Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing In
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2021-02-04
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

If you grew up within the christian community, and felt damaged by it, you are not alone. If you felt ashamed most of your childhood, because of what was being preached AT YOU, and not TO YOU, from behind a pulpit, you are not alone. If you long for a deeper and more meaningful relationship with Christ, you are not alone. It is my hope, that by the time you are finished reading the pages in this book, that you will know how deeply you are loved by God. It is my hope, that this book will give you a glimpse, into what it's like to love, and be loved by the real Jesus. I want to take you on a journey with me, of heartache, survival, self discovery, and ultimately, divine healing. If you are feeling lost like I was, don't worry. You can find your way back home, just like I did. You are not alone. I am right here with you, and we can do this together. I want to shed light on what this process of healing from spiritual abuse has looked like and felt like for me, in the hopes that you will be able to find your way back to a God who loves you, more than life itself. This book is about healing, from spiritual abuse and trauma. I hope you choose to take this journey with me.

Amazing Grace for Survivors

Amazing Grace for Survivors
Author: Jeff Cavins
Publisher: Ascension Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2014-06-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

“For when I am weak, then I am strong.” - 2 Cor 12:10 As Christians, we recognize that life’s struggles can bring us strength and peace even if the challenges remain. This means that surviving is more than merely getting through an ordealÑit is being triumphant in spirit, regardless of the outcome. In Amazing Grace for Survivors, you will will witness God’s power as He forms and strengthens ordinary people who faced extraordinary circumstances. You will experience the pain in these stories and share the glory of their triumph. In the end, their grace becomes yours, for we are one body in Christ. In Amazing Grace for Survivors, you will meet: A man with cancer whose fear of dying teaches him how to live. A disabled girl who comes to understand that all life is precious. A woman who fights to adopt her son from Vietnam, and then fears she only brought him home to die. A heartbroken mother that learns to trust that her autistic son is in God’s hands. A mother that hunts down her drug-addicted daughter and brings her home. …and many more

Surviving the Island of Grace

Surviving the Island of Grace
Author: Leslie Leyland Fields
Publisher: Epicenter Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780980082593

As a twenty-year-old newlywed transplanted from New Hampshire to a remote island in the immense Gulf of Alaska, Fields must learn to live communally with her new family in primitive conditions without running water, electricity, or contact with the outside world.

Healing Children's Grief

Healing Children's Grief
Author: Grace Hyslop Christ
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2000
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780195105919

The author "relates the powerfully moving stories of eighty-eight families and their 157 children (ages 3 to 17) who participated in a parent-guidance intervention through the terminal illness and death of one of the parents from cancer."--Cover.

Surviving Sexual Brokenness

Surviving Sexual Brokenness
Author: Thom Hunter
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1449707319

A man with his wife at the table on the other side of the restaurant is polite but distracted. A woman at work stares out her office window with a blank expression, her mind far away. A father wraps his arm around his daughter in the church pew; his eyes are on the pulpit, but his mind wanders. What about the college student on the soccer field or in the library? The doctor prepping for surgery? The realtor showing the house next door? The mailman on your front porch. Your Sunday school teacher . . . perhaps even your preacher. These people may be dominated by some form of sexual brokenness, from pornography to adultery to unwanted homosexual temptation. They share a secret they hope and pray will never be revealed. The urge to "act out" in their brokenness is destroying them because it conflicts with a life they have already chosen. They don't know how to live with it; they don't know how to be rid of it. They may not know what caused it; they only want to "cure" it. "Am I just a misplaced homosexual?" "Did God make me this way?" "Why won't He change me?" Surrounding them are the ones who sense something is amiss but have no clue what to do or where to find help. They may be confused by the teachings of the church: love the sinner; hate the sin. This seemingly Biblical response can actually send the message to the struggler that he is, in fact, unlovable because his identity seems inseparable from his sin. Surviving Sexual Brokenness examines the roots and the roadblocks and provides understanding, encouragement, hope and help through Biblical truth and Christian compassion for the freedom-seeker and those who travel alongside.

Tastes Like War

Tastes Like War
Author: Grace M. Cho
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1952177952

Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the 2022 Asian/Pacific American Award in Literature A TIME and NPR Best Book of the Year in 2021 This evocative memoir of food and family history is "somehow both mouthwatering and heartbreaking... [and] a potent personal history" (Shelf Awareness). Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details—language, cultural references, memories, and food. When Grace was fifteen, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue and evolve for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia. In her mother’s final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her parent’s childhood in order to invite the past into the present, and to hold space for her mother’s multiple voices at the table. And through careful listening over these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brilliant, complicated woman who raised her—but also the things that kept her alive. “An exquisite commemoration and a potent reclamation.” —Booklist (starred review) “A wrenching, powerful account of the long-term effects of the immigrant experience.” —Kirkus Reviews

Ash + Salt

Ash + Salt
Author: Sarah Grace
Publisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2022-03-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1788493532

Sarah Grace is a sexual assault survivor. On 17 July 2019, she fell asleep like any other night. A burglar broke into her apartment and attacked her as she slept. What followed was a fight for her life. That violent assault blew apart her world, reducing everything in it to ashes. From that battle, Sarah has waged many more. She had to fight her way through post-traumatic stress, the social stigma around sexual assault and an archaic court system in her bid to ensure her attacker couldn't do the same to another woman. Some adversities were predictable – nightmares, panic attacks and the devastating loss of self. Others were surprising – toxic social reactions, friends withdrawing and a nightmarish trial that unearthed how heavily the criminal justice system is loaded against victims. Ash + Salt is a raw and powerful account of healing and thriving after sexual assault. Armed with courage and brazen candour, Sarah takes you through her own story to reveal the experience of a survivor. She offers the tools to survive the assault, its aftermath and the trial, and charts the path back to recovery. Because while ash marks the place of devastation, it is also the fertile soil from which new life can grow. This is a book for everyone – not just survivors, but their families, friends and colleagues too. Sexual assault affects us all, regardless of background or gender. It is one woman's personal testimony, but it is also a call to arms. The time to speak up is now.

Fields of Grace

Fields of Grace
Author: Hannah Luce
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 147672962X

In this remarkable tale of hope and survival, Hannah Luce tells how, as the sole survivor of a terrible plane crash, she came to grips with her faith: “a calamitous, fascinating memoir, written with surprising spiritual sophistication” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). On May 11, 2012, a small plane carrying five young adults, en route to a Christian youth rally, crashed in a Kansas field, skidding 200 yards before hitting a tree and bursting into flames. Only two survived the crash: ex-marine Austin Anderson, who would die the next morning from extensive burns, and his friend Hannah Luce, the daughter of Teen Mania founder and influential youth minister Ron Luce. This is Hannah’s story. In Fields of Grace, Hannah details the investigation of her faith, her coming-of-age as the dutiful daughter of Evangelical royalty, her decision to join her father’s ministry outreach to teens, and her miraculous survival and recovery following the accident. It also serves as a tribute and testament to the lives of the dear friends who perished in the catastrophic plane crash and reveals how their memory continues to inspire all that she does. Here is the “riveting personal account” (Booklist) of a girl who grew up as the daughter of one of the most influential evangelical leaders of our time, who questioned her early religious convictions somewhere along the way and who, from the embers of that doomed plane ride, finally found her faith.

Orbiting the Giant Hairball

Orbiting the Giant Hairball
Author: Gordon MacKenzie
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0670879835

Creativity is crucial to business success. But too often, even the most innovative organization quickly becomes a "giant hairball"--a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the past--that exercises an inexorable pull into mediocrity. Gordon McKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years, many of which he spent inspiring his colleagues to slip the bonds of Corporate Normalcy and rise to orbit--to a mode of dreaming, daring and doing above and beyond the rubber-stamp confines of the administrative mind-set. In his deeply funny book, exuberantly illustrated in full color, he shares the story of his own professional evolution, together with lessons on awakening and fostering creative genius. Originally self-published and already a business "cult classic", this personally empowering and entertaining look at the intersection between human creativity and the bottom line is now widely available to bookstores. It will be a must-read for any manager looking for new ways to invigorate employees, and any professional who wants to achieve his or her best, most self-expressive, most creative and fulfilling work.

Survival in the Storm

Survival in the Storm
Author: Katelan Janke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780439215992

A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.