God's ultimate plan for His people is one of transformation. All of us are born in God's image, but His ultimate desire is for us to be transformed into His likeness. For this metamorphosis to occur, we must stop competing with God to be the master of our lives. Just as a butterfly changes from a larval caterpillar, all human beings are to be transformed into their mature form, a person possessing the nature and character of Jesus. Butterfly people see the world from God's perspective and experience more joy and peace in life. Caterpillars are left behind to see the world from man's perspective and suffer from immature, pathological thinking, dysfunctional relationships, and self-serving religions and governments. God designed our world for Christ-centered butterflies that can live in the light of His wisdom and truth, not caterpillars that stumble through life and remain lost in the darkness of their self-centered world. In Only God Can Make A Butterfly, David Delnostro, M.D. walks you through the psychological, interpersonal, political and medical advantages of soaring through life as a butterfly and the pathological consequences of crawling through life as a caterpillar. David J. Delnostro, M.D. is a graduate of Ohio State University College of Medicine. He began his medical career in 1980 in Savannah, Georgia as an emergency room physician at Candler Hospital. For the past twenty-six years, he has practiced family medicine and currently is a member of Southcoast Medical Group in Savannah. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the oldest of six children. Although he was raised by a Catholic father and a Jewish mother, he never practiced either religion. At age forty, he began his life-changing relationship with Jesus. Currently, he serves as a deacon and Divorce Recovery leader at Savannah Christian Church.

This workbook will help you find your esteem through Christ and discover your God-given abilities and strengths. You will learn how to change your negative self-talk into positive self-talk and fill yourself with positive emotions. You will learn how to use positive affirmations and develop habits that will change your perspective on life. You will learn how to find your true beauty and accept your flaws and imperfections. You will learn how to set and reach your goals.

There is no better message of wisdom than a lesson that has been tried and tested . . .

The Butterfly Effect: Flutters of Wisdom and Kindness accentuates the compelling need for random acts of kindness. Each reader of this book can remember someone from his or her past who has made an indelible influence on his or her life. A random act of kindness can resonate with goodness for each person who participates in favor. Unfortunately, other types of acts can have an opposite effect. This work contains hundreds of “flutters” of wisdom and kindness from an eclectic composition of sources from Aristotle to Emile Zola, from Plato to Rudyard Kipling, from Booker T. Washington to Leo Tolstoy, Karl Marx to Janis Joplin. This work attempts to synthesize different thought and observations from people, past and present, from different cultures of east and west that will indicate that we all share an impetus to a common goal . . . if we help each other. Though this may be deemed a work of scholarship, it is presented in non-scholarship terms. Though the subject matters (philosophy, sex, religion, and politics) are matters of gravitas, the answers can be quite simple, if we permit them to be. This is not a “how to” book. Each person has the sovereign right to determine his or her destiny. Nevertheless, interesting and controversial points are covered so that each person may make a more informed choice about how to determine well-being. If the reader pledges to help another, thousands of others will be pledging to help the reader. A Zen Buddhist koan asks, “How does the drop of water know it is part of a wave?” A drop always has a ripple. A flutter of kindness or wisdom can shake the world.

Is there life beyond the veil of death? Get answers after reading this shocking first-hand account of this extraordinary story. Four people have a date with destiny. Octavia, her husband, and friends are in a horrific accident. The circumstances of the crash are so bad that its unlikely anyone will survive! As family and friends pray for a miracle, their prayers are answered! Octavia came back from death with a thread of hope and an incredible story! Her intriguing true accounts share a glimpse into the afterlife. Through her experience, you will believe in the power of miracles, restoration, and healing!

This book, Reading With Pictures, was created for people that can hardly read. Children that haven't learned to read, and for elderly who's eyes are dim. Some people are created to read visually by studying the pictures. With short quotes, verses, and titles to bring the pictures more alive. Especially if someone is kind enough to read it to them, the words alongside the pictures will bring new life to the book. I want to sell this book to whoever needs a simple picture book to be encouraged. This book is to minister to their heart and soul. I hope to open up a whole new world to those who like and are able to read pictures. Books that contain only words don't have much meaning when we can't read the words. For those God has created visual words without pictures take away from the true meaning of the book. People need to buy this book to be encouraged to live a life that they get spiritually fed. God's ways are so much higher than ours. "For our thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" Isaiah 55:8,9. God has a reason why some read through pictures, some only words, and yet others who like both together. It is so good to look at the book to see the pictures with the words and feel the spirit of God satisfying our inmost being.

Adventures in Thackerville will carry you, your children, and your grandchildren to the wonders of Gods little miracles and the joyfulness of childhood in a refreshing new way. Experiences include a beloved quote:that it is never right to do wrong and never wrong to do right. Written from individual experiences of his or of his children or a friend of the family, each account could be read as a bedtime story or they could be read by the children themselves. The Author has inserted his children and grandchildrens names to personalize each story. Other names mentioned are his grandma, siblings, two cousins, an uncle and some family pets. It is the desire and prayer of the Author that these stories will be significantly used of God to stir the hearts of children and adults alike.

DESCRIPTIONIN THE SPRING OF MY REMEMBRANCE is a book of prose, poetry, memoirs, and photography. The poet has chosen to break the poems down into categories that fit her moods such as "Inspiration, Love, Fun, Memorials, History/Political, these are just some of the categories. Photography is also a passion of the author and she shares a few photographs just for fun. This book includes pictures that were favorites, but in no way exhibits the many pictures that she has taken around her hometown Philadelphia, PA. Memoirs included in this book reveal another side of the author who believes that everyone goes through some things in their life that may resemble other folk's lives but talking about it or thinking about those situations just hurts too much. This is a small world and we all can relate to many times of happiness, experiments, experiences and tragedies that make up who we are. Victoria wants you to be inspired, have fun, have total recall and just enjoy.