Despite initial presumptions, a young Amish woman's reluctant move across the country with her family to escape Englisch influences results not in lost love but deep spiritual discoveries.

Beside Still Waters is a book for shepherds of human sheep, persons who give themselves in a potent and selfless manner that individuals in their care who are stretched to the limit by the demands of life in an aggressive, ambitious, super-technological society may experience the abundant life, a life filled with meaning, direction, abundance, and fulfillment.

Find rest, refreshment, and restoration for your soul―21 daily devotionals for women. This delightful 21-Day Devotional Journal offers encouragement and inspiration to help you rest your heart, quiet your soul, and meditate on the refreshing and restorative life-giving Word of Truth. Whether you're an abandoned daughter, an abused teen, a dispirited wife, a battered single parent, or an insecure woman who's feeling emotionally frail; you can liberate your soul from every guilt and shame caused by trauma, calamities, and suffering, Beside Still Waters. Inside Beside Still Waters, you’ll find: -Twenty-one devotionals for women―Daily guidance to inspire you to press into God and His Word as often as you want. -Thoughts on Today’s Verse―Hone your focus as you take time to prayerfully read and embrace the Word of God in a practical way. -Connect to God through Prayer―Ask God for what you want. Quiet your mind, and when your mind settles down, listen to God’s -response to what you’ve requested. -Personal Declarations―Embrace and guide yourself to a new result by affirming to allow the manifestation of your request. Remember, the happier you are, the better things will flow. -Take Soul Care Actions―Identify the beliefs and habits you want to keep, release, and establish to achieve your vision of success. -Time for Self-Reflection―Write down your thoughts in the dedicated space at the end of each devotional. Pause! Take a few minutes every day―or whenever you can―to turn the world off, enjoy rest, refreshment, and restoration, Beside Still Waters. Scroll up and grab your copy Now!! "He offers a resting place for me in his luxurious love. His tracks take me to an oasis of peace, the quiet brook of bliss. That’s where he restores and revives my life. He opens before me pathways to God’s pleasure and leads me along in his footsteps of righteousness so that I can bring honor to his name (Psalm 23:2-3 TPT)".

A young farmer witnesses a patricide which he is convinced is an accident. He is faced with unexpected threats from a friend of the deceased and must decide how far he is willing to go, what he is willing to risk, to see justice done. At the same time, a beautiful, young woman of mixed-race arrives in the small community. Unexpected revelations about her paternity cause her to question her racial identity and who she is. Soon the man who has threatened our young farmer becomes obsessed with this exotic young woman. His ensuing actions trigger unforeseen events. Beside Still Waters vividly recreates another time and place as it deals with ordinary people coping with issues of faith, ethical choice, racial identity, justice, retribution, and redemption, as well as the implications of the Civil War and slavery, issues that are, if anything, more relevant today than ever.

A compelling question for people of faith today is how to remain committed to one's own religious tradition while being open to the beauty and truth of other religions. For example, some fear that Buddhism is a threat to Western faith traditions and express grave doubts about interreligious and cross-cultural encounters. Yet, many who have actually broadened their experience profess to have developed a deeper understanding of and a deeper commitment to their tradition of origin. This is what makes Beside Still Waters: Jews, Christians, and the Way of the Buddha such a new and meaningful contribution. Rather than offering research or lectures, Beside Still Waters takes a deeply personal approach, allowing the reader to delve into the individual experiences of fourteen Jews and Christians whose encounters with Buddhism have truly impacted their sense of religious identity. As Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography, says in the book's foreword, "The Buddhist presence in the religious world is far larger than a head-count of Buddhists can reveal." Beside Still Waters upholds this point by way of the diverse and eloquent authors who lend their perspective in its pages; these include Sylvia Boorstein, John B. Cobb, Norman Fischer, Ruben Habito, and other important members of the Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, and scholarly communities. Their collected anecdotes and interviews amount to an unprecedented and enduring work, sure to deepen our ability to understand each other, and therefore, ourselves.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Beside Still Waters" by Arthur Christopher Benson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Just as the psalmist encountered, we can be overwhelmed by the circumstances of life. We run into situations that are frustrating and discouraging. But we also experience the peace and protection of our wonderful Creator whose goodness is not dependent on our situation. Depression and anxiety may threaten to steal our hope and joy, but the psalms are full of God’s unchanging love and faithfulness. As we offer our prayers and praise to God, we can also choose to believe that each day will be filled with his perfect promises. Find the hope, joy, and peace that is abundant in God as you reflect on these devotional entries, psalms, and prayers. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. Psalm 136:1 NLT

Is she jumping from a city firetrap into a wilderness icebox? Violet Channing, orphaned at a young age, is tossed about by life’s turbulent waters when the aunt who raised her dies. She wants nothing more than to be a schoolteacher. Living in a Boston tenement in 1915, barely able to survive, she accepts a job as a live-in teacher for a sick child in the harsh Yukon Territory. Sailing up the Inside Passage of Alaska, she falls in love with a dashing Yukon riverboat captain. Just when her life feels as beautiful as her new surroundings, tragedy strikes again. Can Violet allow her losses to make her better not bitter and learn to love again in this continuing saga of the loves, tragedies, and second chances of a Norwegian immigrant family who must battle the beautiful but often dangerous waters of early twentieth century Southeast Alaska?

This book is a thought provoking honest look at the philosophy, and nature of truth, and Self-discovery utilizing poetry, proverbs, and scattered thoughts. This book looks at life in simple terms rendering it to paper with sincerity honesty, empathy, and understanding so that it can open your mind to new possibilities, and understandings. To reveal to you some of the simplicity, and beauty that life has to offer. It is a book that may change your viewpoints on certain things, and change your life for the better. It is the sincerest hope of the author that you will read this book, and it will help you in some small way so you can come away from it a better person. He also hopes this book will help to ease some of the suffering of those readers who are in pain, and make them feel good even if it is only for a moment.