In Patricia Davis' book, "Gifts from the Spirit," she explains what the 9 gifts are, how they function, why we need them and how we can acquire them. As you study, it helps you see where you may have a gift.
Karen Johnson comes from a long line of storytellers, It is a verbal tradition that harkens back to a time without computers, pen and paper. It takes us back to the oral traditions that precede written history. In her book, Baba the Farmer, we see an example of a working song. Baba uses his working song to teach his boys how to live. He sings it to the boys every day as he works through his day while they listened and watched. There were no instructions. Baba sang and worked. When they needed to...
Stephen Peterson is a student of military history, the Bible, and an author. He studied 8 languages while in the service and is an officer. It's fun to spend time with Stephen as he has such a diverse background.
"Growing Up Sassafras", Hurting Little Hearts" and other titles help children deal with separation and loss through stories. Denise draws from her training in psychology as well as life experience to craft each tale.
There is a touch of nostalgia for those who look back on the life of a hippy. That was the life of sex, love, drugs, rock and roll in the 60s. Take off in a van, live in a hippy ghost town in Arizona, make enough money to travel on and see the world -- Mexico, Morocco, Europe. But it isn't all an adventure. At some point, even hippies have to face the real world and it isn't necessarily a pretty picture. Madlyn Harwell faced her dark night of the soul and it changed her whole life.
Kiana Hamilton's book "Soul Inspiration - A Journey for the Divine" is a collection of poems written down when problems came. They kept her strong as a spiritual person. They were lessons, instructions from God to guide her on her journey. She had to hurry and write them down, and put problems in God's hands. God gives it all to her. As a matter of routine, Kiana finds a moment or two to reflect and talk to God each day, often singing poems when she talks to him. With God in her corner, she is s...
Robert Kershaw knew he wanted to help from the time he was a young boy and witnessed a young boy with Downs Syndrome being bullied. He didn't know what that was, but he felt it was wrong. He built his desire into his activities in high school, in community activities and his work. He became a caregiver and after many years has captured what he learned about caregiving into his book: If I Die Before I Wake: A Caregiver's Journey.
More and more, young people are stepping out of the shadows of mental illness to increase the conversation about it. They want to remove the stigma that is often associated with schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder. James Lauderdale uses poetry and essays to help improve the health system in this area. It ranges from recognizing symptoms at an earlier age to ideations and lack of control, being unable sleep or taking medications that put him to sleep so he couldn't study or attend classes. He is ...
Imagine yourself parentless, surrounded by untrustworthy people, trying to survive as your enemies send dragons to kidnap you. That's the start of The Gemini Reign, a science fiction fantasy.
Oasis Ministry Ventures is working to Save the Oaks Camp and Retreat Center. I fell in love with the camp and conference center when I toured it over 10 years ago. I placed a picture of the conference building on my vision board in the office as the prototype for a retreat center that I would like to build. That voice in my head told me it was way too expensive, it wasn't possible. However, I've been doing dream building this past year -- and I asked myself what could I do to move forward on my ...
In the midst of turmoil, what can we do to improve the situation. David Pitman has turned his desire to make a difference into the book "Expectations of Honor" where he discusses ways to get back to bringing up children as respectful, functioning adults. Found in Biblical sources such as Proverbs 31, a simple summation is to provide love and honor for women and respect for men.
This book is a memoir. There is a journey in our lives, gleaning insights and glimpses that give us clarity on how the past, present and future evolve in our lives. The selections are not chronological, but stand alone. For her, there is something wonderful about being able to put the various circumstances in our lives into perspective.
Dale Hansen felt that people often heard the Bible verses, but never discovered their true power to comfort and bring you through difficult situations. The Word helps us achieve 4 things: more prayer, more time with the Word, Bible verses that you can carry around within you, and a deepening relationshp with God and with others. In "One Week at a Time", Dale focuses in depth on one verse per week, using personal stories and understanding. It is available on Kindle, in paperback and in a new walk...
What if you were trapped inside the Wishing Tree? Who would come to rescue you?
Diabolical politicians need a way to cover up crimes they have committed. They concoct a plan to overpopulate the Adirondacks with wolves and inject their food supply with chemicals to make them extremely aggressive. The result: Wolves who turn on everything that lives and moves in the mountains, including people. What will it take for people to figure out what is going on and then do something that will stop the mayhem before too many lives are lost? Can they do it alone or do they need all the...
Andrew Bode was born in 1945, in Australia at the end of World War II. Foreign armies came to the country to help save it from the Japanese war machine with unintentional consequences -- the birth of children to soldiers who had long since died or returned to their home nations. Andrew was one of those children. He grew up in an orphanage with little hope for a successful life. Fortunately, he had an inquisitive mind that motivated him to ask questions and find the answers. The chapter on Motiva...
Aqualite Muraglia is a feminist through and through. She's also an artist and an author. Her novel, The Business Woman, is the epitome of Aqualite's vision of success. But women in the real world still have battles to fight. There are so many oppressed people. Women can fix the world. They are more responsible, listen and support one another. They want to solve problems. Women like Aqualite want to change the world for the better.
Screenwriter, producer and financial services professional Harvey Warren discovered a new calling writing about healing. As he recovered from major back surgery, he realized that there was no guide book to support healing. People want to get better, they just don't know how. He began researching, speaking with medical professionals, nutritionists, chefs, physical therapists and other patient. Along the way, he discovered four key components to successful healing. Teaming up with others, they cre...
Stephen Sweigart has loved writing since his first publication of a newspaper at 11 years old. HIs work was influenced by professors at Temple University where he discovered the stylistic technique of concrete poems. But his favorite poems evolve from his travels to Greece and study of classical mythology. He especially enjoys the Greek gods and Prometheus.
Born in Upstate New York to an abolitionist family, Matilda Joslyn Gage was one of the three most famous suffragists in America. Yet her story is all but forgotten in the annals of time because she was considered too radical. Today many of the ideas she championed are taken for granted. Women have been voting for decades and we have much more control over our finances, however, there are still plenty of issues Matilda championed that have never been realized. And here's a little tidbit, Matilda ...
Often, when we look back across our lives, we can see them laid out like a roadmap. If we notice, we can see how to connect the dots in the past. We may not be able to see the dots ahead, but we can aim for what we'd like to see. Producer, director and distributor Stephen Simon is a great example. From his first film, he's been exploring love between earthly beings and those in the after life through "Somewhere in Time" and "What Dreams May Come." After writing "The Force is With You" on mystica...
After graduating from university, William Pardue was a counsellor of a wilderness camp where the worst of the worst teenage boys were sent from Chicago. For 15 months he lived with them as they built everything they needed from scratch. In the process, they came to understand the value of working together as a tribe. "Wolf Creek" tells the story.
Donna Ritch has an inner source that gives her the poems contained in "Universal Secrets: A Collection of Enlightened Poetry." Their messages convey deep messages of unconditional love and guidance to prepare to take a stand for coming changes. She shares a few of the poems with us.
Gaileen Crowell has always like to help people heal. When she retired from nursing, she turned that desire toward another passion, writing combined with her love of crafting. The result? The first in a series of children's books with pony characters set in the Old West of the 1860s that help children learn how to handle disappointments and caring for others.
Robert Mark Schaeberle was tormented by demons while he slept for most of his life. A schizophrenic, he would battle them by grabbing pen and paper to write poetry. Jeanne found them after his death and shares them in this book to open a dialogue on the topic of mental illness.
Born on a South Carolina plantation, Ann Phillips use her personal experiences in those rural settings to populate her books with romance, mystery, thrills and even something for the children. They are fun for her to write and for us to read and enjoy. Her favorite part? Developing the characters.
There are three professionals who can contribute to the best relationships with your dog: the veterinarian, the trainer and your coach. Dr. Pezzini and Dr. Ferrari discuss considerations to make when choosing a breed, evaluating your environment and learning to communicate with your beloved dog. Dogs are different from humans. Ask for professionals for help. For more information, check out: Dog’s Lovers: https://amzn.to/35MYZ79 with practical exercises and workbook. Group coaching with a private...
"Sally's Magical River" is just being released on Audible. Author Frank Gaertner talks about the story, as well as the process involved in bringing the book out as an audible book. Narrator Rebekah Nemethy adds to the conversation and contributes a clip from the finished book to give you a feeling for the magical, "quantum field" feeling that emerges.
Dr. Marj Britt was senior pastor at Unity Tustin Church for 19 years, and after retiring founded and participates in the Called By Love Institute. She is a mystic and master teacher emphasizing consciousness and love. As we centered in and breathed in the energy of love, we set out on a journey that begins with our daily physical being and moves higher toward higher 5th dimensional experiences. Part of our journey - our earthly purpose - is to know God and emulate his energies -- love, conscious...
When we experience disasters and personal loss, we long to regain our inner peace and serenity. When we had our landslide, I began a spiritual journey that resulted in my book "Rainbows Over Ruins" and a small booklet "Your Survival Guide: 12 Tips to Gain Inner Peace." Lewis Tagliaferre suffered a painful loss that sent him on his own journey to find a basis for living in bad circumstances - what many people call the dark night of the soul. His search resulted in a new belief system, "Theofatali...
