There is no greater testament to faith, hope, love, and peace than the gift of light to show up to shine through the darkest moments of life. Many times, the why and, how to moments seem difficult to find the answers of how to navigate through. Open Your Greatest Gift is like a guide to show a daily practice on how to activate the characteristics that were planted inside during birth. Once the vow and determination have been made to open up to these scripts, the gifts unfold to be opened. As the scripts are used ongoing, more scripts that may have not been realized show up. Each situation becomes a story that teaches. The story could have a hidden miracle inside that gives hope that anything is possible when the gifts are used. Open Your Greatest Gift has a collection of short stories that discover and uncover how each character learns how to open their greatest gifts while sometimes in the face of defeat, denial, or unknowing. Many times, in the direct face of darkness, it gets granted and delivered. The delivery of the gifts of Joy and Peace along with Love and Gratitude can calm the soul.

Do you know God has given you the Greatest Gift ever given? Have you opened His Gift? If not, why not? Maybe you think you’ll always have tomorrow to open it. But what if you don’t. Your life could end without warning. Or maybe you’re just content with life and think you have everything you’ll ever need. Or maybe, you’ve never heard about this gift from God and don’t know that it even exists. Which case are you? Let’s open this gift from God together. Let’s go verse by verse from the Bible about the death, burial, resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and witnessed accounts of Him being alive again. And then how to receive His Gift. If at the end of this book you decide you don’t want this gift, it’s ok. It’s your choice. But what if this gift changes your life forever? Don’t wait. Tomorrow may not come. Open this gift from God today.

The Greatest Gift digital sampler includes selected excerpts from six books by New York Times best-selling author Max Lucado. They offer a glimpse into the content of these titles and the heart of the greatest gift of all time. Peek inside these books to find the perfect gift to share with someone you love this Christmas season. Excerpts are from Max on Life, Outlive Your Life, No Wonder They Call Him the Savior, When God Whispers Your Name, Grace for the Moment Morning & Evening Edition, and Christmas Stories.

Christ has comforted me with His love and peace in times of turmoil and grief. He has guided me with His light in the darkness of life. He has energized me when there was no hope, only despondency, and He has graced me with His unending joy. What a great honor and privilege it is to record and share some of the words Christ, through the Holy Spirit, has given me as I have followed Him. My hope is that these words of His will bless all who long for a deeper relationship with Him and draw each of us closer to the great flame of love that dwells in the heart of Christ.

Sara writes about her testimony and how it speaks of GodaEUR(tm)s grace, mercy, and forgiveness. SheaEUR(tm)s learned many lessons as sheaEUR(tm)s walked down the road of salvation. Here she shares the major life lessons sheaEUR(tm)s learned about breaking up with your past and letting it go.Sara teaches the importance of forgiveness, grace, and mercy and how important it is to extend them to others and yourself. How to find contentment in Jesus, and how that impacts your life. How walking down the road with Jesus overflows you in gratitude and thanksgiving.Sara is raw and real about the life she lives. She shows her trust in Jesus and how he leads and guides her down the path he carved out for her. Along the way, she shares what sheaEUR(tm)s learned to encourage others to lean into Jesus and how he will be your navigational guide through life.

The award-winning New York Times bestseller that inspired BTS's K-pop song 'Magic Shop'. The day that 12-year-old James Doty walked in to his local magic shop is the day that changed his life. Once the neglected son of an alcoholic father and a mother with chronic depression, he has gone on to become a leading neurosurgeon, based at Stanford University. He credits Ruth for this incredible turnaround: the remarkable woman he met at the Cactus Rabbit Magic Shop, who devoted the summer to transforming his mind and opening his heart. In this uplifting memoir, Jim explains the visualisation techniques Ruth taught him that gave him the self-esteem to imagine a new future for himself. He examines the science behind mindfulness and why the skills he learned - of focus and attention - now help him to think fast and keep calm in the operating theatre. And he shows us what is possible when you start to change your brain and your heart. Into the Magic Shopimparts some powerful life lessons about how to live better, and inspires us to believe that we all have inside us the capacity to change our own destiny. 'I'm sure many readers will be moved by this inspiring story to open their hearts and see what they too can do for others' - His Holiness the Dalai Lama

For Christian educators who desire to hear God's voice specifically addressing their daily work, this daily devotional offers inspiration, challenge, and encouragement to help live out their call from a biblical, God-centered focus. Whether teaching in a private or public school or homeschooling children, a Christian teacher can benefit by a daily orientation to the call of God on his/her life as an educator. Each day's offering inspires, challenges, and encourages teachers to continue in the calling God has placed on their life to educate and facilitate spiritual growth in their own professional and personal life and in the lives of their students. Each month is planned according to the rhythms of a traditional school year: August focuses on preparing for the school year, and September addresses new beginnings and getting to know their students, for example. Each week is themed to have a specific focus that reflects the events of a typical school calendar. Written as God speaking to His children, each day's message begins with focused scriptures for the week, then addresses common challenges in the daily life of a teacher. The format asks educators essential questions at the beginning of each unit, with scriptures aligned to that unit's theme. Each unit offers a collection of short, inspirational devotionals ending with reflection questions designed to reinforce the principles found in God's Word.

The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.

It's been four years since the war against the Veimurians has ended. Charlo, Kit and Zok'ai Live peacefully on one of Rosea's many beaches. But once Charlo and Kit are to house the Late Akmar's niece, things get weird. General Axis and the rest of the Zoran fleet have detected some sort of life signal coming out of the black hole of Oanus' recently deceased star. Somehow, someone or something has escaped. This life form disappears for some time, but reappears just outside Rosea's system. It remains still at first, but then expresses its desire to destroy everything in its path, including Charlo and everyone she loves, to have revenge on her for what she's done. Charlo and Kit come to find it is an old enemy, reincarnated in an even more ruthless form than before. To save the galaxy and to protect those most dear to her, Charlo has to discover and harness her primitive, hidden powers in order to defeat this ruthless, ugly, terrifying foe.

The Broken-hearted How much love can one take with a broken heart? How much love can one give with a broken heart? How much love can one give to those we love with a broken heart? How much love can be given by those that love us with a broken heart? How much love can be taken and not returned with a broken heart? How much love can be given and not returned with a broken heart? What price a broken heart? Where will the pain and the loneliness of the broken-hearted end? But, all hope is not lost, for love a broken heart can mend, For love is to the broken heart, the first, foremost and finest friend.