Bøger af Eileen Telford

Parables provide guidance, inspiration, morality, and common-sense lessons for people in all ages of time. These lessons are contained within simple stories that you already know something about. Jesus Christ taught about farmers, laborers, seeds, and harvests. Today we have busybodies, recipes, flashlights, and front porches. Why not experience some modern morality messages for our day?Parables and Proverbs: Modern Morality Messages for an Awakening World includes twenty modern day parables with easy to follow stories for life lessons learned. These parables include stories about selfish cooks, leaky buckets, a game of chess, squeaky front porch swings, and so much more.Written especially for women learning life one day at a time, these parables are accompanied by modern proverbs, such as: The body needs bread; the soul, flowers. And: If you are a lover, you'd better bring roses. If you are a child, dandelions will do.Specially curated for the woman interested in self-improvement, clear thinking, self-confidence, and wise understanding, each of these modern day parables and proverbs contains truth to guide and help women, their friends, families, and children. Simple stories change the world. Pick up a parable and see how your life changes for good.

Parables and Proverbs Volume Three: Life's Instructions for Making a Difference includes twenty modern day parables with easy to follow stories for life lessons learned.Specially chosen for the woman interested in self-improvement, clear thinking, self-confidence, and wise understanding, each of these modern day parables and proverbs contains truth to guide and help women, their friends, families, and children.Parables are stories written to entertain, inform, and/or teach. The reader decides what he or she will get out of each parable. In this selection, each parable tells of someone who made a difference in someone else's life -- or someone who made a difference in his or her life. This volume also contains proverbs -- short thoughts intended to entertain, inform, and/or teach.

Over a thousand years ago, King Solomon wrote proverbs to teach lessons to his people.Parables and Proverbs Volume Four: A Woman's Worth elaborates on Proverbs 31:10-31, as King Solomon asks, "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies..."The qualities of the Virtuous Woman are shown in the twenty-two parables found in Volume Four with a bonus parable at the end, making twenty-three parables in all.This volume also contains forty-two proverbs created by the author. These proverbs touch on the six areas of a woman's life, namely her physical, mental, spiritual, social, emotional, and financial well-being. This is an example of a proverb from the book: The way to tell the difference between two beautiful women as to which is good, and which is evil is to look into her eyes. The eyes of the good woman will be warm and inviting, whereas the eyes of the evil woman will be seductive and enticing.The stories told in Parables and Proverbs, Volume Four: A Woman's Worth will touch your heart; some will bring tears to your eyes and others, a smile to your face; all will entertain as they teach and enlighten.These stories are close to the author's heart, as some are based on her experiences, and others are from women she has known throughout her life and her lengthy career as a nurse.Study the bonus story at the end of the Parables section. It will lead you through a self-evaluation as to how you measure up the Virtuous Woman, and how you might improve.

Written for struggling Christian Women, this book provides hope and guidance for some of the challenges women face but don't dare discuss with others - the shame of past problems, difficult marriages, alcohol abuse, bulimia, abusive childhoods and feeling unloved by their mothers. Bold at times, but written with sensitivity, the author shares insights from her own life and those of women she has cared for while working as a nurse. She draws from her study of the Bible about Mother Eve, and asks the question: What would Mother Eve say to help with this problem? And then she gives the answer, couched in the entertainment of pure story. There has never been a book written like this one.Parables & Proverbs Volume Two: Lessons from Mother Eve for the (Struggling) Christian Woman is a must-read by every woman who has ever thought she was the only one suffering with silent shame. Oh, dear friend, you are not alone!--219 pages (53,000 words)