Spirituality
Author, Christine A. Adams, maintains that we can find joy, and spread the joyful message of creation, by seeing beyond the human, negative perspective of loss, violence and death. We can develop the ability to "reframe" any negative perceptions by using positive spiritual tools of gratitude, acceptance, humility, peace, and love. Joy does not come "to us" but it comes from "within us".
God's will for us is joy.
Find peace amidst chaos! Connect to God through meditation, prayer, and ritual. Observe nature, commits acts of kindness, foster loving relations and embrace self-reflection and self-acceptance. Achieve this quietude of the soul to live in peace beyond the noise of human conflict. Be still and know God! God's will for you is joy!
Love is the most powerful force in the universe. It can heal, transform, and uplift. But what is love, really? And how can we live a life that is truly guided by love? In this book, the author explores the spiritual nature of love. She shows how love is not just a feeling, but a way of being. When we live from a place of love, we are more compassionate, understanding, and connected to ourselves, others, and the world around us. This book is a journey into the heart of love. It is a guide to living a life that is full of love, joy, and peace. The spiritual task here is to find that Divine Spark, to let it shine, and to spread it's light to all. The purpose of this series of books on Gratitude, Acceptance and Humility is to share that love directly with you.
In this companion book to Gratitude: A Spiritual Way of Life and Acceptance: A Spiritual Way of Life, the author shows us how humility is a path of self-discovery. It helps to have a realistic sense of oneself, leading you to find the perfect balance of peace, confidence, and purpose in your life. Combining Acceptance and Gratitude with Humility, you'll be embarking on a life long journey to a spiritual way of life.
In this companion book to Gratitude: A Spiritual Way of Life, the author shows us how Acceptance and Gratitude are tightly bound. These are the spiritual tools we use to accept life as it unfolds. Focusing on what God is doing for us right now, we find strength and peace to accept all of life's challenges and changes. God's Love is infinite, and brings strength and hope. With Acceptance and Gratitude, we learn to trust in God's guidance through every moment of our lives.
Author Christine A. Adams maintains that it's the times we're tried and tested that we most need the reviving, renewing, restorative powers of gratitude. Discover how and why to be grateful - always! As you page through this little volume, count your blessings and watch them grow!
Seasons is a book of spiritual meditations adapted to the seasons. Winter is a dark, reflective time, spring is a time of transition, newness. Summer is a time of fulfilling relationship; and Fall is a time of abundance and fruition. Like nature, we go through spiritual seasons: times of grief, disconnection, fear, transition, growth, fulfillment, gratitude, acceptance and peace. In all seasons, we can reflect on the wonder of God's love, and as His children, find gratitude, acceptance, peace, and, finally, true happiness. God is the love in which we live out all our seasons of time.
Spirituality: A Life Force details a journey from the material world of the ego to the world of the spiritual. It shows how the new awareness of oneself as a child of God can produce profound change in your life. Relationships can change from being dominated by self-interest and ego, to relationships with spiritual purpose and function. Spiritual healing happens as spiritual solutions are sought. Spirituality: A Life Force opens up the possibility of a new view of life-a new view of yourself-living not as a child of this world, but, with the life force of spirituality, living as a child of God.
A chance meeting, a peaceful setting at Sebago Lake in Maine, and a desperate need for relief from an unrelenting grief--all happen in September Love. In 2006, Derek Holland, a Morgan Stanley stock broker, lost his young wife, Jenny, and seven-year-old Zachary, in a tragic accident when a Boston commuter train hit another train head-on. Now in 2008, during the September stock market plunge, when his company is faltering, he retreats to the peace and quiet of Sebago Lake.
Ironically, Ingrid Mikkelson returns to Sebago Lake Campgrounds each September to grieve the loss of her husband, Svien Mikkelson, who died of a sudden heart attack in 2006. They choose adjacent sites, #148 and #149.
In this chance meeting, they find a connection in their sorrow which quickly turns to love. But Ingrid has a secret that she hesitates to share with Derek. Their life story develops as they show how a new and deeper appreciation for life has grown out of a sudden loss of a loved one. It deepens their strength, their appreciation for relationship and the renewal of self through love.
The ABC's of Grief: A Handbook for Survivors meets bereaved persons wherever they might be in the grieving process, providing snatches of meaning, hope, empathy, and understanding. This handbook is a product of the author's own grief experience. Confronting her loss, Christine Adams found that it was all right to grieve at her own pace: one day at a time, one thought, word, and letter at a time. The handbook's alphabetical format allows readers, or group leaders, to focus on any aspect of grief that suits them. If a reader becomes absorbed in "anger" or "anxiety," he or she can go back to reread those parts of the handbook and with each visit will find some new realization and meaning. Every section contains appropriate quotations, stories, and poems, written by survivors who found solace in writing. The information is useful at a time of grief, the encouragement by the author is soothing, and the poems and stories remind the reader that others have visited the same places in their grief process.
Written in the style of Mitch Albom's, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The School Factory by Christine Adams switches time from present day, to the past and into the future. The commanding day is June 10th. The primary storyteller, Jenny Anderson, a loved senior English teacher. As the story opens, "Mrs. A." is in a head-on collision on her way to the graduation. In her unconscious state, she traces the year flashing back to events involving a dozen students. Their issues include illiteracy, early pregnancy, learning disabilities, crime, homosexuality, sexual perversion, racial bias, alcoholism and drug addiction. The conflict - their "real" human issues versus the "inhumane" school institution. By symbolically making all kids "products" tracked on different conveyor belts - in the factory, the author rips open the heart and soul of Heritage High.Throughout the novel, the conflict between the human needs of the teens and the rules of the factory builds. Some kids drop off the conveyor belt; one, Jim Bartlett, chooses suicide as his way out. In the last thread of the novel, the dying teacher meets Jim Bartlett. With Jim, now as her teacher, she experiences a true "TIMELESSNESS". She sees her students in their future lives. By expanding time, the author is able to help the teacher and the reader make sense of the incongruity and emptiness of a typical year in the school factory.
The source of the words of this book are both The Course In Miracles and The Holy Bible combined to help the reader better understand their own place in the spiritual world, and their relationship to God. Intrigued by the notion that we all are teachers, the author, an English teacher, studied these words for many years until she understood the truth and holy wisdom of the concept of A Teacher of God.
Living in Love is an inspirational book that shows how teachings about love in A course In Miracles and the Bible help the reader to understand that everyone is a child of God. It explains that this awareness helps us sustain an ongoing process of spiritual awakening. It shows how we can evolve to higher spiritual levels as we experience the power of God's Love within us. Living In Love offers gentle guidance through some of the ideas expressed in both the Bible and A Course In Miracles and helps us apply them to everyday life.
Holy Relationships offers a whole new spiritual perspective for couples who are making or renewing a commitment to each other. It emphasizes the spiritual edge of intimacy and the importance of placing God at the center of the relationship. Basing her suggestions on Scripture, the author offers a variety of practices, guidelines, and purposes that promote a relationship with less tension and more freedom from fear of loss.
This updated Love, Infidelity and Sexual Addiction: With Cybersex Addiction, is an honest sharing of a trust betrayed. It chronicles the author's personal experiences with a sexually addicted spouse as well as stories of others in various stages of recovery from coaddiction. This book offers hope and healing to those who have suffered from repeated betrayal. It details a system of spiritual, emotional and behavioral self-help considerations including chapters defining Sexual Addiction, Coaddiction and Cybersex Addiction. Other chapters include: The Shame-based Family and The Spiritually Centered Family, Signs of Obsession, Compulsive Behavior, Finding Self, The Solution, A Healthy Relationship, Forgiveness.