There is something different about this book. Many couples are confused about how to find the will of God for their lives, marriages and families. Do you desire for more intimacy and passionate linking? Do you miss the feeling of togetherness that you and your spouse felt when you first met? As a couple, is it a problem for you to communicate openly? Are you scared that being honest will hurt each other’s feelings? Maybe you are feeling discouraged by stubborn arguments over apparently irrelevant issues. Alternatively, perhaps you have begun to feel like you have “fallen out of love”. Do you want to have more sex or less sex than your spouse does? If you have had an affair, or if you have been hurt by your spouse’s infidelity, you might be feeling uncertain if, and how, you can settle your feelings, and be able to relink and connect. Remember, you are the person to initiate that, take heart. Unless you learn to identify broken and missing links that disengage you from your marriage and family, you will continue to live in a relationship of finishing life together because of the children you have. In order for strong intimacy and deep connection to take place, forget about the lies of the devil, false messages and cracks around your heart. This is the foundation of rediscovering the joy of a broken heart in your life, marriage and family. A Pure and Forgiving Heart will Restore the Joy of your Broken and Missing Links to cover your physical, intellectual, spiritual and emotional aspect of your life.

BECOMING A MAN OF FAITH WITH DESTINY Becoming a man of Faith with Destiny has been written by a woman especially for men who want to make the most of their time with God. The chapters of the book focus on the presence of God in their lives, refresh, reassure, empower, enrich and encourage a deeper level of Christian Faith. God is near to all those who seek Him. Enjoy shelter, protection, peace, and joy as you Lead your Teenager Son to Manhood. The heartbeat of this book is wrapped in changing your mindset, do battle, and start winning. You will learn how to use the Word of God, how to love your wife in a way that is meaningful to her and for singles, you will learn to be faithful to your wife before you meet her. You will stop giving ground to the enemy, believing the lies of the enemy, and become the man of Faith God is calling you to be. Begin to walk in integrity, humility, holiness, and honour.

SURVIVING THE STORM Storms of Life are Temporary The book entitled “Surviving the Storm” will teach you how you can enjoy Life, Relationships, Marriage and Family even when passing through the storms of life. For God has promised to never leave us nor forsake us, and His word is true. Life is full of surprises, spontaneous, unexpected, and unannounced storms of life that can lead you to question if God is in control of your life. Storms of life will come, and life will happen the way it is supposed to. I want to remind you that; • Every Person has a Storm. • Every Storm has a Limited Life Span. • Your Storm Will Not Last Forever, But You Will. • Storms are Temporary Disruptions and Not Permanent Incident. • Life Indeed is a Collection of Seasons.

THE BEAUTY IN BROKENNESS Have you ever tried picking up the broken pieces of a broken ceramic objects or glass and putting them back together? If so, wasn’t it a conscientious task? First, depending on the size of the destruction, you would probably have to search all over the place to recover the broken pieces. Then after collecting all the broken pieces, you are left with yet another formidable task of putting the broken object back to its original form. God makes broken things beautiful. Consent God to heal the wounds of your past heartbreaks and people who left and anyone who couldn’t fully love you. Allow Him teach you the lesson behind each heartbreak. Broken things are despised as meaningless, but God can take what has been broken and remake it into something better, something that He can use for His Glory. Sometimes, God just wants you to surrender. This is a key element of Faith. Surrendering is an act of strength, not weakness. Because it takes a great deal of strength and wisdom to admit that you don’t have all the answers and you can’t change your life. Broken things and broken people are the results of sin.

The hurting and healing are the hopeless, discouraged, divorced, widows and widowers, children who still hurt due to their old wounds, try to go through the motions of life with little ambition or motivation to do any better. God is in charge of your seasons. Don’t take things personally because life is often a roller-coaster ride of emotions. Life is full of ups and downs and filled with a collection of unexpected surprises. Behind your situation lies purpose. Broken things become useful in God’s time. Life is Like a Puzzle. Life is a like a test that you can fail if you don’t do it right. We can touch hearts of the hurting in different ways. After a long winter, spring eventually comes and with it new leaves appear on the trees in all their refreshing beauty. Take care of your heart. You are responsible for your heart because it is the engine if your life. Pain is unavoidable and suffering is optional. There is healing after hurt. Your case is settled in heaven. Concentrate on things you love. Let go! Let God! Allow healing to take place. Your case is settled in heaven. Concentrate on things you love. Let go! Let God! Allow healing to take place. There is healing power of forgiveness. We do not prolong our pain by continuing to focus on unforgiveness. People differ in the sense that many can face life again despite emotional traumas while others remain stuck with either the healing or the hurting process for many years. You cannot run before God. Every person on earth lives out a unique script of hardship. Wellness and fitness is wealth. Each area of your life is connected to all the others. Like a chain, you are only as strong as your weakest link.

By looking at a variety of racial and ethnic groups in society, Social Work, Marriage and Ethnicity examines the conventional knowledge, theories and best practices relating to marriages. Contributors address marriage interventions, female empowerment, parenting, and cohabitation, as well as the variables which impact these situations, such as employment, housing, domestic violence and HIV/AIDS, within appropriate and meaningful cultural contexts. This book will be particularly useful for social workers working in many settings: clinical, community, research, policy implementation, faith-based, and other arenas that are available to couples in need of marital support. Marriage issues need to be addressed by social workers, given its status as a vital element in family strengthening and relationship stability. This book emboldens the case manager, community organizer, or immigration officer to address marital stresses and the demands faced by those couples most impacted by systemic inequality and barriers to cultural interventions. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment.

The Adolescent Experience places the college student at the very heart of the book. The authors engage in a dialogue with the reader that is warm, caring, and often humorous as they write and share material about this time of life. The authors emphasize the role that development and society play in the lives of young people. The book has a solid research basis with a historical and multicultural focus. But most important, the book is practical and applied with the strongest prevention/health promotion material available in any basic undergraduate adolescent psychology text currently on the market.Key Features* Focuses on health promotion and illness prevention* Provides not only a U.S. but also a much needed Canadian perspective to this life stage* Involves students as participants in a long-standing inquiry into the nature of adolescence as they are introduced to the latest research in the field* Provides students with the latest practical information in subject areas like sexuality, drugs and alcohol, suicide and depression, eating disorders, crime, delinquency, and violent behavior* List server links student and/or instructor to authors* Explores the uniqueness of North America's multi-culturalism* Illustrates important concepts using literature and social history to make them tangible to students

In Dramatic Experience: The Poetics of Drama and the Early Modern Public Sphere(s) Katja Gvozdeva, Tatiana Korneeva, and Kirill Ospovat (eds.) focus on a fundamental question that transcends the disciplinary boundaries of theatre studies: how and to what extent did the convergence of dramatic theory, theatrical practice, and various modes of audience experience — among both theatregoers and readers of drama — contribute, during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, to the emergence of symbolic, social, and cultural space(s) we call ‘public sphere(s)’? Developing a post-Habermasian understanding of the public sphere, the articles in this collection demonstrate that related, if diverging, conceptions of the ‘public’ existed in a variety of forms, locations, and cultures across early modern Europe — and in Asia.

This book examines contemporary Afro-Latin@ literature and its depiction of the multifaceted identity encompassing the separate identifications of Americans and the often-conflicting identities of blacks and Latin@s. The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture highlights the writers’ aims to define Afro-Latin@ identity, to rewrite historical narratives so that they include the Afro-Latin@ experience and to depict the search for belonging. Their writing examines the Afro-Latin@ encounter with race within the US and exposes the trauma resulting from the historical violence of colonialism and slavery.