Life can be tough, even in the best of times. But life in a pandemic (and in the "new normal" afterward) requires a special sort of staying power. Can we do what must be done without giving up? Can we hold fast to our center? We build staying power by ??	nurturing gratitude?	increasing resilience?	practicing patience?	developing empathy and compassion?	appreciating the beauty of what's true?	keeping faith with ourselves and othersThis inspiring collection of soulful musings and poetry will companion you through the remaining pandemic into the uncharted territory of the "new normal." Read to remind yourself how resilient you are. Read to remember that your spirit is bigger than your anxieties and worries, your wounds and losses. Read to remember you're not alone.This book won't change your life.But it might change how you live it.

Staying Power: Writings from a Pandemic Year

Cole-Dai, Phyllis

Religion & Spirituality

Bell Sound Books

Are you standing still on your journey of faith? Do you want to become a more faithful disciple but need direction for moving ahead? Or are you standing at a crossroads, waiting for a guide to point you in the right direction? Spread before you are various paths. Which of them would Christ have you follow? This unique devotional resource guides you on a year's journey during which you will find specific direction for becoming a more disciplined, faithful disciple of Christ. Wherever you are on the faith journey right now, as you walk through the pages of this book you will grow in spiritual understanding and experience as you gain deeper insight into the relevance of spiritual truth to your everyday life. Each daily reading begins with a statement of the day's central idea to focus your mind, followed by the passage of Scripture that has inspired the central idea. After this comes a brief meditation, which includes the most unique feature of the book: an exercise to help you apply the main idea during the day. Then the main idea is restated, as both a blessing and a challenge to action. Themes include transformation, creation, fear, forgiveness, compassion, community, healing, peace, and miracles.

Having the Mind of Christ

Cole, Phyllis

Miller,Paul E

Christian Books & Bibles

Abingdon Pr

In 1999 Phyllis Cole-Dai and James Murray lived by choice on the streets of Columbus, Ohio, the fifteenth-largest city in the United States. They went to the streets with a single intention: to be as present as possible to everyone they met, offering them sustained and nonjudgmental attention. Such attention is the heart of compassion. This book chronicles their streets experiences. It will thrust you out the door of your comfortable life, straight into the unknown. It will force you to confront what might happen to you, and who you might become, if suddenly you had no home. The meditative narrative is accompanied by pinhole photographs shot by James using cameras he constructed from trash. This is the third edition of the book, lightly edited. Though recounting events that occurred in 1999, it remains as relevant today as ever. An "eye-opening" and "life-changing" read!Read this book on its own or in the company of Practicing Presence: Insights from the Streets, which Phyllis wrote on the tenth anniversary of her time on the streets. Take your reading slow, perhaps one chapter per day, so you can absorb and reflect. If you happen to be Christian, you might consider using this book and Practicing Presence as companion resources during Lent and Holy Week, which served as a backdrop for Phyllis and James's experience. But you don’t need to be a Christian to take this stumbling journey into practicing mindfulness on the streets. Just allow these forty-seven days to be for you what they were for Phyllis and James: a deep embrace of core values that human beings around the world have held in common for millennia. These values might best be articulated as questions: How do we treat others as we would have them treat us?How do we love our neighbors, including those who seem “alien” and “other?”How do we extend hospitality to strangers, allowing them an honored place among us? These age-old questions have no simple answers. We must seek to answer them daily with our lives. Get your free sampler of Phyllis's work when you join her mailing list at http://www.phylliscoledai.com.CATEGORIES FOR THIS BOOK:--spirituality --memoir --mindfulness --homelessness --Lent &amp; Holy Week --social conscience --engaged Buddhism

The Emptiness of Our Hands: 47 Days on the Streets

MURRAY, James

Bell Sounds Books

"Perhaps every woman will lie for the man she lies with."—Sarah WakefieldAugust 18, 1862. On the Sioux reservation in southwestern Minnesota, Indians desperate for food and freedom rise up against whites in the region. Sarah Wakefield, the wife of a physician, is taken captive with her two babies. Their fate falls into the hands of the warrior Caske, with whom she has slim acquaintance. As war rages, little does she know how entwined their lives will become.Beneath the Same Stars is the gripping story of two people, caught between worlds, who are willing to do almost anything to defend those they care about—including each other. But the drama is bigger than themselves. Tragic forces have been set in motion.…Inspired by actual events surrounding the U.S.-Dakota War.ADVANCE PRAISE FOR Beneath the Same Stars"I come from a family descended from Gabriel Renville (Ti Wakan, Sacred Lodge), a Sisitunwan headman who helped to resolve the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. But among my people that conflict never ended. It still divides us today. We were once a strong, spiritual people. We need reminders of who we really are and where we come from. Beneath the Same Stars helps us reexamine our own history and identity. Will that create some positive change among us? I hope so, for the sake of our children, most of all."—Darlene Renville Pipeboy, independent Dakota scholar and elder"This is a sensitive portrait of a complicated woman caught in the politically and culturally fraught conflict that led to the U.S.-Dakota War. It both reflects the prejudices and divisiveness of that time and offers bridges to help heal the rifts between and within the communities that continue to be affected by the events of 1862 and their aftermath. The novel turns historical figures into living, breathing embodiments of the conflict, making tangible both the historical events and the contemporary impact of those events on all the affected communities. It raises questions and concerns of substance rather than trying to resolve them and is a constructive contribution to the dialogue we continue to need."—Carol Chomsky, Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, and author of “The United States-Dakota War Trials: A Study in Military Injustice”"Beneath the Same Stars weaves feeling and concern into the tragic landscape of the U.S.-Dakota Conflict. Readers are taken on a journey beyond history-book headlines and into the world of a woman who, despite confusion and weakness, dares to care. The story has echoes for today—it invites us all to acknowledge and appreciate cultural differences despite the ever-present social anxiety directing us not to."—Jim Green, former director, Institute for Dakota Studies, Sisseton Wahpeton Tribal College; co-director, Center for Indigenous Teaching, Sinte Gleska University"This novel, whose title beautifully expresses the ongoing relevance of the so-called “past,” should be widely read and discussed in schools and communities. Through impressive research and powerful storytelling, Cole-Dai contextualizes one of this country’s most tragic histories exceptionally well. Beneath the Same Stars is a significant contribution to the literature of cross-cultural understanding."—Charles L. Woodard, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, South Dakota State University, and author of Ancestral Voice: Conversations with N. Scott Momaday

Beneath the Same Stars: A Novel of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

One Sky Press

During Lent and Holy Week, 1999, Phyllis Cole-Dai and James Murray lived voluntarily on the streets of Columbus, Ohio, the nation's fifteenth largest city. They didn't go out on the streets to satisfy idle curiosity, or to experience a strange new world. They didn't go out to find answers to questions, solutions to problems. They didn't go out to save anyone, or to hand out donations of food and blankets. They went out with one primary aim: to be as present as possible to everyone they met-to love their neighbor as themselves. Doing so, they were reminded just how difficult the practice of compassion can be, especially because of personal judgments, assumptions, fears and desires, all habits of mind that harden one's regard for and behavior toward other people. The Emptiness of Our Hands: A Lent Lived on the Streets is a meditative narrative accompanied by nearly thirty black and white photographs, most of them shot by James using crude pinhole cameras that he constructed from trash. This book will thrust you out the door of your comfortable life, straight into the unknown. What can happen to a person without a home? Indeed, what might happen to you?

The Emptiness of Our Hands: A Lent Lived on the Streets

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

AuthorHouse

See that word emerge buried within emergency?It's there for a reason. As people of hope, we lay bare that hidden word, emerge, and focus our energies upon it. We insist that momentous potential lies as a seed within all periods of turmoil and upheaval. We search out that seed, enrich the soil, and provide what it needs to grow. Our ability to do this is a hallmark of staying power. This soulful collection of short musings, stories, and poems will nurture your staying power, deepening your trust that good can always emerge from trouble. "This is more than just talk. This is blessing. This is love at work."-from the book's pages

Staying Power 2: Writings from a Year of Emergence

The Singing Stick: A Novel

United States

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