This book is about the experiences of a young man who always wanted to find the meaning of life and find his purpose in it. His great desire is to write a book that allows other people to understand life much better. During his life, he had some experiences that awoke his interest of writing. These experiences had love in common, which was the fuel of his inspiration.

Derra Byrd had a dream of one day becoming a mother. Little did she know that this journey would lead to several tragedies along the way. In dealing with these tragedies, Derra called upon the Lord to help her cope. In her book, she reveals how all of these tragedies correlated with a deeper faith than she had ever imagined. Take a journey with her to see how the Lord was able to teach through any situation. It is a revealing journey of faith.

Hndiyya al-'Ujaimi, a young eighteenth-century nun whose faith was matched by her ambition and intellect, lies at the heart of this absorbing history of Middle Eastern Christianity. At the age of twenty-six, Hindiyya left her hometown of Aleppo to establish a convent in the mountains of Lebanon. Her order and her growing public profile as a visionary and living saint met with stiff opposition from Latin missionaries and with mistrust from the Vatican. Church authorities were suspicious of feminine spirituality and independent religious authority, eventually subjecting her to two Inquisitions by the Vatican. Sentenced to spend her entire life imprisoned, Hindiyya died in 1798 in her cell, leaving a legacy that shaped the church for many years to come. Compelling in its cinematic scope—resplendent with the requisite villains and mysterious events infused with sinister and sexual tensions, tragedy, and pathos—Hindiyya’s story holds within its folds a larger tale about the construction of a new Christianity in the Levant. Khater skillfully reveals what her story tells us about religious minorities in the Middle East, early modern cultural encounters between the West and the Middle East, and the relationship between gender, modernity, and religion.

Betty Jane Rapin became a spiritual student of life at the age of four when she began having extra ordinary experiences, which at that time, she had no idea that the happenings were not common occurrences that others also have. Throughout the seventy-six years of her quest to fi nd answers, she learned many spiritual tips, tools, and techniques, which have enabled her to make the divine connection, and grasp the essence of her true selfSoul. This Soul awareness made it possible for her to successfully make the divine connection and acquire a spiritualized consciousness, a state of awareness that enables her to perceive life from an enlightened state. Thus, she has found contentmentunderstanding life from Soul perspective. This of course is not with her always, however she has learn how to align with Soul and the guidance of Holy Spirit, when needed. This expanded awareness enables her to experience the power of Gods love. She shares with you a study plan she calls the Spiritual ABCs of daily life. It helps maintain her spiritual connection with Holy Spirit. Among other things, she shows you how to stay focused, believe in yourself, keep motivated, build spiritual strength, open your heart to God, acquire a spiritualized consciousness, and expand your awareness to view life from Souls perspective. This 360 observation of expanded awareness gives you the alertness to easily recognize and fully understand the oftensubtle power of Gods love.

Nothing is more dangerous to be misunderstood than the question, "What is the human being?" In an era when this question is not only being misunderstood but even forgotten, wisdom delivered by the great thinkers and mystics of the past must be recovered. Edith Stein (1891-1942), a Jewish Carmelite mystical philosopher, offers great promise to resume asking the question of the human being. In Human and Divine Being, Donald Wallenfang offers a comprehensive summary of the theological anthropology of this heroic martyr to truth. Beginning with the theme of human vocation, Wallenfang leads the reader through a labyrinth of philosophical and theological vignettes: spiritual being, the human soul, material being, empathy, the logic of the cross, and the meaning of suffering. The question of the human being is asked in light of divine being by harnessing the fertile tension between the methods of phenomenology and metaphysics. Stein spurs us on to a rendezvous with the stream of "perennial philosophy" that has watered the landscape of thought since conscious time began. In the end, the meaning of human being is thrown into sharp relief against the darkness of all that is not authentically human.

The Divine Leelas ( Miracles) of Bhagawan Shri Sathya Sai Baba (Swami) .....The Eternal God! Swami’s Omnipresence and His Magnanimous, spontaneous Love for His Devotees, presented them with the opportunity to experience and witness His enthralling and Divinely captivating Leelas (Miracles) in all corners of the globe. The author was blessed and fortunate to receive accounts of miracles which touched and transformed the lives of people globally. The universality of Swami’s Miracles attests to His Divinity and His accessibility to ALL of Mankind. These Miracles are awe-inspiring, mind-blowing logic-defying and offer the reader a glimpse into the Divinely fascinating and enigmatic realm of Sai (God). These miraculous experiences so graphically and vividly presented, are guaranteed to strengthen and reinforce the readers’ faith and belief in the existence of a Merciful, Divine Entity and more especially in Swami’s irrefutable Divinity!