This is a story of a woman who is bilingual and bicultural. After college she literally bulldozed her way to higher rungs on the corporate hierarchy in a male dominated business environment of advertising in Japan. She has her stories of how she got there, giving tips on how women trying to rise higher on the corporate ladder where not just "glass" ceilings exist, but "concrete" ceilings. She also describes her observations on the cultural, political and economic differences and upheavals of the recent times as well as developments between the US and Japan, and her observations of other countries in Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand and the Asian countries as far as India, countries where she traveled on business and her vacations with her husband. And how she is today, when she decided to become a writer after she turned sixty-five. She has shown that there is life after retirement, that there are other ways to pursue development of a "second" career. Though pessimistic at times, she always relied on her optimism to achieve fulfillment. The book is full of hope, both yet unachieved and those achieved.

An old soul trips through its many lives and incarnations trying to escape the present. When we are born, we still retain the memories of all the lives we lived as well as the afterlife. This remembering slowly fades as we become more and more immersed and trapped in this construct that we call reality or life. This is the story, told in poetry, connecting narrative and photographs of an old soul beginning its current incarnation. Its the experience of an infinite consciousness struggling to hang on to the memories and many identities of countless lifetimes. This consciousness pieces the different events of his/her former lives and tries to hang on to who he or she really is before forgetting and playing the latest game of life.

How do we find Gods peace, hope, and love in lifes darkest hours? What do we do when the world around us is in turmoil, and where can we uncover sense when life is full of abuse, trauma, loss, and death? For Maggie Summers, the bizarre and traumatic events she experienced led her to wonder how or if God fit into her destinywere the events in her life coincidence or luck, or was God communicating with her through miracles? In A Scoop of Hell between Two Slices of Heaven, author Maggie Summers shares how she was able to discover Gods presence in her darkest hours. As she journeys through life-threatening illness, fatal family automobile accidents, a suicide, a drowning, and cancer deathsall while her marriage to an abusive alcoholic destroys her self-imageshe puts her life in Gods hands, trusting in His plan and not in her own. Through years of pain, Maggie walked with God to gain a life of peace and love. No one is immune from pain and sufferingespecially the pain of abusebut if we can find strength in God, we can endure. Maggie was able to never give up thanks to finding Gods strength, and he gave Maggie his perfect love for her imperfect life.

What's the Truth About Eternity? The afterlife seems like the great unknown. Human imagination and Hollywood have come up with many speculations about what lies beyond. How can we set aside the misconceptions and find the truth? What are the straightforward, biblical answers everyone needs to know about heaven, hell, and the afterlife? Mike Fabarez examines 10 faulty beliefs that are surprisingly widespread—and look to God's Word alone for the facts. You will find the truth about common misperceptions like When I die, I'll go to sleep until the resurrection On my way to heaven I'll have to put in some time in purgatory Heaven will be boring with very little to do You don't need to guess about the future—God's Word is ready to inform your mind and settle your heart. Let this book guide you toward a deeper joy, faith, and understanding of eternity.

I will concentrate on telling the story of how poets, playwrights, religious zealots, thinkers, philosophers, and theologians, among others, have tried to describe something that religions hold it ultimately ineffable, very secretive, beyond words, and that non-believers prefer to see as a collective delusion that has prevented us facing up to the finality of death. It leads us to so apt thought and concentration and perplexes ordinary human being endeavoring to meet ends meet that he gives up the thinking process. You will see discussions about God and belief. To discuss about heaven and hell, one cant keep away from God and religion. They are intertwined.

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Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all feature ideas about heaven, hell, and afterlife, and these concepts have evolved over time within these religions. This work supplies a detailed and coherent understanding of the broad scope of spiritual thinking in the last 3,000 years within the Abrahamic traditions. Heaven, Hell, and the Afterlife: Eternity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam provides an all-encompassing examination of historic and contemporary perspectives on afterlife in Western religions. In these three volumes, Judaic, Christian, and Muslim scholars join forces, providing an unprecedented review of their individual faith's traditions. Every significant issue and major theme is discussed; no controversial topic is avoided. From ancient doctrines to modern-day outlooks of conservatives, progressives, and liberals in all three religions, all are analyzed and presented here. The framework of the volumes underscores how the ethics and concepts of eternity in the Western "action" religions contrast with Eastern religions that tend to be characterized as "passive" or "withdrawal" religions in their ethics and their notions of afterlife as absorption within universal spirit, Nirvana, or nonexistence. This work is well-suited for undergraduate and graduate students, general readers interested in religion, and professional scholars, particularly those in fields corollary to religious study.

This is one of the most important questions to ask. There are many different answers and beliefs that can cause confusion with what the Bible teaches. What do you do when someone asks if there really is a heaven, hell or afterlife? Author Daniel Juster helps guides you with answers to this question by surveying what the Bible says in Heaven, Hell and the Afterlife. Each chapter explores and evaluates the evidence from Biblical texts and explains how the confusion of doctrines today should not be created based on someone's visions, dreams or experiences with heaven or hell. Go deeper in seeking out truth and knowledge of heaven and hell and be able to answer where your final destiny will be.