Mostrando resultados por "From Despair to Hope" en Todas las categorías

Life is a journey, different for everyone. Yet we all deal with problems and joys on this journey. I reflected on my journey in poetry. As I slowly shared my poetry with others, they insisted that I share it with a wider audience. I never felt my poetry was that good or that important, but every time I shared it, it seemed to touch the people who listened to it or read it.

Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4). These words have been carved on many a plague to adorn our kitchen walls and encased in picture frames for our living rooms. Sometimes preachers will choose it for a sermon text, leaving their congregations with the impression that if they just love the Lord enough, all will be well with them. As they define wellness. The trouble is that these words are often ripped out of the context in which they have been passed down to us. Psalm 37 is not a “Don’t worry, be happy” kind of prayer. It begins, ...

Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4). These are not words I would have selected for our community this week, as we mourn a life tragically cut short. This verse seems to mock us in our grief. It’s been carved on many a plague to adorn our kitchen walls and encased in a picture frame for our living rooms. Sometimes preachers will choose it for a sermon text, leaving their congregations with the impression that if they just love the Lord enough, all will be well with them. As they define wellness. The trouble is that these words are often ...

In the year 2021, amidst worldwide fear, chaos, riots, and economic shutdowns resulting from the COVID-19 global pandemic, I was diagnosed with cancer. My scans were not the scans of a person who lives, the medical specialists said, and because of the medical policies put in place to stop the spread of COVID, much of my treatment was administered without the presence of my family or loved ones. Everything in my life had taken a drastic U-turn.

Inside the Stretch of My Heart: From Morning to Night is a companion poetry collection to The Dream of Stairs: A Poem Cycle, which was privately printed as a posthumous memorial volume in 1975, a year after Susan Noble’s untimely death in 1974 at the age of 31. Susan wrote the poems in batches of half a dozen or more, from 1965 onwards, in what she described as manic bursts of creativity, announcing with her typically light-hearted ironic self-depreciation, ‘The muse has struck me!’ But these poems are anything but light-hearted, and even a first reading will reveal clearly that ...

In Playing Hurt, a leading figure in the sports world - the quintessential "man's man" who seems to have it all - confesses his constant battle with depression. John Saunders welcomes listeners into the heart of his desperate struggle through insights into the root causes of depression and explanations of modern medical and homeopathic treatments.

In 2008, 20-year-old Jonny Benjamin stood on Waterloo Bridge, about to jump. A stranger saw his distress and stopped to talk with him - a decision that saved Jonny's life. Fast-forward to 2014 and Jonny, together with Rethink Mental Illness, launched a campaign with a short video clip so that Jonny could finally thank that stranger who put him on the path to recovery. More than 319 million people around the world followed the search. ITV's breakfast shows picked up the story until the stranger was found, and the pair reunited and have remained firm friends ever since.

Nate Wagner faced despair in his early 20s. After the loss of his only brother to suicide, Nate struggled to find hope, reimagine his life, and achieve a new normal. Drawing on his clinical training and work and his own life experience, Nate shares his story with listeners, offering practical suggestions and honest reflections to invite the listener into his journey from despair to hope.

If you are looking for hope in the midst of life on life’s terms today, this is the audiobook for you. You will identify...no matter your gender, age, culture, or stage of life as Suzanne deals with her life with grace and gratitude. You will enjoy her treasured love story of Sue and Jim and their mission together. You will be inspired by the hardships she describes overcoming and the faith that led her through these ordeals. You will laugh and cry as she faces every crisis armed with her mother’s magical gift - her faith in the power of blessed holy water. Does it work?

The Stranger on the Bridge is a memoir of the journey Jonny made both personally, and publicly to not only find the person who saved his life, but also to explore how he got to the bridge in the first place and how he continues to manage his diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. Using extracts from diaries Jonny has been writing from the age of thirteen, this book is a deeply personal memoir with a unique insight on mental health.

Atuando há mais de 25 anos como pastor evangélico, Lisânias Moura já aconselhou muitos homens e mulheres que viviam situações angustiantes de dor e sofrimento. Na verdade, ele mesmo experimentou momentos de grande angústia, em que sua confiança em Deus foi duramente colocada à prova.

Inside these pages, you'll meet a little girl ... who used to hide, who hurt, who cried. She endured abuse, grew up afraid, lost a friend to murder, had cancer, lost hope, and thought God had forgotten her name. But He didn't ... Discover how God sees each little girl who is sitting in the pew of life, who is lost, who is lonely. Learn how He gives hope to anyone handcuffed to despair. To anyone who longs for love. To anyone who needs to know they matter ... We are all precious in His sight.

Do you feel it would be disloyal to a loved one to heal your grief? Do you believe that you will never get over losing something or someone? Do you give think you’ll never be whole and happy again? If so, you may need some healing from grief. Unhealed grief tells you that life will never be okay again. Grief will overwhelm you and color every thing you ever do from this point on. You’ll never be able to laugh, or enjoy things that you used to. Grief tells you it will color your world in gray dinginess forever Grief lies. This book will walk you through emotional and spiritual healing ...