For centuries people have connected themselves to God through the practice of spiritual disciplines, yet we feel overwhelmed at the prospect of integrating such disciplines into our own lives today. What if all that is really required is to simply - begin? The pages of this book will introduce you to the disciplines of solitude, silence, fasting, frugality, prayer, meditation, study, and worship, in a fresh new way. In addition to a few non-bossy suggestions about the art of implementing spiritual disciplines, you will also be given 40 readings and exercises to get you started right away. Whether we are beginning our day or a project or a new stage of life, how we begin matters.

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Religion & Spirituality

Maxon, Elizabeth

Worship & Devotion

Back Porch Press

Sometimes our greatest struggles set the stage for a greater story. When her five year old daughter was diagnosed with a chronic illness, Elizabeth's world turned upside down. She was filled with grief. But the thing about grieving is this - it is a process of letting go. Sometimes our fingers must be pried off the dream of a good life so our hands are open to receive a better one. If you have faced an unexpected crisis in your life that has left you with more questions than answers, Onederland will offer you heaping handfuls of hope in your own hard places.

Onederland: a mother's story of finding hope in the hard places

Adolescence is often thought of as a period during which parent–child interactions can be relatively stressed and conflictual. There are individual differences in this regard, however, with only a modest percent of youth experiencing extremely conflictual relationships with their parents. Relatively little empirical research, however, addresses individual differences in the quality of parent–adolescent interactions concerning potentially conflictual issues. The research reported in this monograph examined dispositional and parenting predictors of the quality of parents’ and their adolescent children’s emotional displays and positive and negative verbalizations when dealing with conflictual issues. Of particular interest were patterns of continuity and discontinuity in the factors related to conflicts. A multimethod, multireporter (mother, teacher, and sometimes adolescent reports) longitudinal approach(over 4 years) was used to assess adolescents’ dispositional characteristics (control/regulation, resiliency, and negative emotionality), youths’ externalizing problems, and parenting variables (warmth, positive expressivity, discussion of emotion, positive and negative family expressivity). Parentadolescent conflicts appear to be influenced by both child characteristics and quality of prior and concurrent parenting, and child effects may be more evident than parent effects in this pattern of relations.

Understanding Mother-Adolescent Conflict Discussions: Concurrent and Across-Time Prediction from Youths' Dispositions andParenting (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Eisenberg, Nancy

Gershoff, Elizabeth T.

Zhou, Qing

Hofer, Claire

Spinrad, Tracy L.

Valiente, Carlos

Cumberland, Amanda

Liew, Jeffrey

Reiser, Mark

Psychology & Counseling

Wiley/Blackwell

When their 5 year old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, life as they knew it was turned upside down. It seemed as though this family had entered a foreign land. It was a land of daily finger pricks and insulin injections, but it would also become a place where hope shined bright and faith grew deep. Type Onederland is the true story of one family's journey with chronic illness. It is the story of the surprising discoveries they made in the most unexpected places. Everyone experiences grief and suffering in their lives. The chapters of this book will shine light into dark places for every reader. The honest words of a desperate mother will inspire change in your own life and offer practical ways to move from surviving to thriving in the midst of struggle. Step into Type Onederland and discover the surprising treasures found when life does not go according to plan. When the worst thing happens, it's never all bad. Proceeds from this book are donated to JDRF to help fund research to find a cure for Type 1 Diabetes.

Type ONEderland: Finding Hope in the Hard Places

Parenting & Relationships

Disabilities & Hyperactivity

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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