suffering

The internationally recognized teacher, speaker, and bestselling author of A RETURN TO LOVE argues that our desire to avoid pain is actually detrimental to our lives, disconnecting us from our deepest emotions and preventing true healing and spiritual transcendence. As Marianne makes clear, true healing and transcendence can only come when we finally face our pain and wrestle with what it has to teach us. Written with warm compassion and profound wisdom, she offers us a powerful way forward through the pain, to a deeper awareness of our feelings, our lives, and our true selves.

In twelve stirring, insightful, and deeply revealing chapters, Sheila Walsh shows how personal brokenness can open doors of intimacy with Jesus Christ that might never open in any other way. It's not that God loves broken people more than those who imagine themselves to be whole?it's simply that they know they are loved. They dare to believe it . . . and through such trust, a new wholeness emerges from yesterday's broken pieces.

The statue of a prince who lived a life of ease and contentment while living is forced to look down upon the suffering poor of the city.

"Heart of Darkness" tells of a powerful European, Kurtz, who reverts to awful savagery in an isolated native trading post. "The Secret Sharer" describes the conflict of a young captain torn between his duty to his ship and his loyalty to a young officer.

Leslie Haskin recounts her escape from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and explains how the terrorist attacks gave her a second chance at life and helped teach her what is truly important.

Little Pieces of Light...Darkness and Personal Growth, a hope-filled book, offers both courage and solace. It reaches into the human heart, encouraging the reader to approach painful, inner darkness as a help for rather than a hindrance to personal growth. In a culture that pushes away darkness, this book carries a radical message: Darkness, a womb of silent nurturing, is where one waits patiently for the stirrings of new life to develop. This small but powerful volume reminds all who live in a world with much darkness that there is a strong light within the self and within others that will serve as a comfort and guide along a sometimes bleak and barren journey of life.

On the surface Susan Saint Sing is "the picture of health." Inside she has known enough pain and suffering to fill a book- and fill it with compassion for readers who share her "struggle toward meaning." Living with Sickness will, for many, soften the blow of that heavy "hammer" called sickness. This book can help healing happen and let understanding begin.

Contains "Heart of Darkness" in which an English trading company sends a sea captain to find a renegade trader who has become mad with greed and power over the natives in the Congo; and includes other short stories, an introduction to author, questions, and suggestions for further reading.

Guides the suffering through difficult times in an exploration of the story of Joseph and his brothers and the truth of Genesis 50:20, in which God does not promise that trials will be quick or painless.