Bøger af Jean Wise

Pause for a minute and look around. The space surrounding and within you is holy ground. Finding the holy is challenging especially during the upheaval of transitions and changes. Sacred Surroundings invites you to explore external and internal landscapes and to gain insights about how our spaces shape us through the eight points of a compass: being awake, curious, discerning, receptive, connected, growing, honoring, and beholding. These foundational principles help us see the sacred significance in our physical and spiritual geographies and discover God's amazing grace in every place. Sacred Surroundings: Finding Grace in Every Place will help the reader use the eight spiritual compass points to: Discover their identity as a child of God through exploring their internal and external surroundings.Appreciate their own physical and spiritual landscapes and find a home of peace and contentment.Practice sacred survey and see God's presence and guidance in their lives.Notice holy ground all around them.Discover the power of knowing grace in every place they visit, reside, and dwell.Explore various spiritual practices connecting them to the places that significantly shape their lives.To know they are a beloved child of God no matter where they live or where they are in the inner journey of the soul.May you dwell in sacred surroundings, knowing you are not alone and may we all flourish in God's grace in every place.

How do we decide which way to turn in the all the crossroads of life?The crazy chaos of the holiday season descends upon our souls quickly, complicating our journey. We crave the peace, joy, and hope during Advent, but often we only experience uproar and mayhem. The intersection of uncertain choices merged with the holidays compounds our decisions. Christmas Crossroads - 30 Devotionals for the Holiday Season will enrich your time before Christmas, prepare your heart for celebrating the birth of Christ, and lead you to a clearer understanding of discernment in the crossroads of life. Christmas Crossroads - 30 Devotionals for the Holiday Season will help you to: -Approach Christmas with an open and receiving heart.-Explore making the best choices at the crossroads encounter in life.-Listen to people of the Bible and gather inspiration and guidance from their crossroad experience.-Apply new ways to make the right decisions on our life journey.-Grow closer to God in quiet reflections as you seek God's guidance during the holidays.Christmas Crossroads - 30 Devotionals for the Holiday Season contains an introduction and 30 daily devotionals exploring Biblical stories that inspire and teaching us about listening to God in all our decision making. Features of each devotional include scripture readings, thought-provoking reflections, questions to ponder, and prayers to deepen your time with God. Perfect daily readings for the Advent season.Jean Wise is a writer, speaker, and retreat leader. She is a spiritual director, RN, and Deacon, facilitating adult spiritual formation. Her passion is to help others deepen their walk with God. She writes weekly on her blog at www.healthyspirituality.org and is the author and contributor of a growing number of books.

Enjoy this entertaining compilation of some of the Iditarod(R) racing adventures of Dr. Terry Adkins. Dr. Adkins served as the veterinarian for the inaugural running of the Iditarod in 1973 where he was infected with the 'mushing bug;' he subsequently raced Iditarod(R) over 20 times. Competing or not, he continued work to improve care, treatment, and veterinary standards of working dogs. Informatively, outdoor enthusiasts, teachers, and students will appreciate the categorization of qualifications and financial components associated with running an Iditarod(R) race. Dr. Adkins also introduces the reader and animal lover to some of the magnetic personalities of the canine athletes that shaped his life and fostered the trust of a working sled dog.

If you knew you were dying soon, would you see the people around you differently? Jesus knew in his last week before the resurrection that the end of his human life neared. He knew exactly how events would unfold. He knew what the voices of the people and places around him would say.40 Voices - A Lenten Devotional captures the words and settings surrounding Jesus that final week, so we hear them with new insights. Their stories and experiences hold wisdom for us today and show us the transformational power of the cross.Jesus' presence in their story predicts his proximity within our story. Lent offers us a time to deepen our relationship with Jesus and to hear God in new ways. 40 Voices - a Lenten Devotional will give you a fresh look to the sounds from Christ's journey to the cross and will inspire and enrich our journey through Lent.Each reading opens with scripture and a thought-provoking reflection and closes with a suggested symbol to observe, a question to ponder, and a prayer to guide your time with God. Listen to the voices on the way to Calvary and draw closer to Christ.

Writers and speakers love words. Words are their tools. Communicators recognize the power of one word to be able to inspire, comfort, teach, and literally and through literal means, change lives. The Communicator's Companion contains 40 devotions based on various communication roles and words. These reflections will nourish Christian speakers and writers' faith. This new and expanded edition of devotionals for Christian communicators offers encouragement, insight, and grace for the creative work of spreading God's message of love to others. Discover the numerous ways God communicates. Be inspired to model God's approaches to words, both spoken and written. Grow deeper in your own faith by seeing God from a new point of view. Walk with God through these devotions and listen, learn, and converse with the communicator's Companion.

The frantic pace of our noisy world and conflicting demands bombard our souls. We find it hard to hear God in the chaos of our everyday lives. How can we slow down to be with and experience his presence? One faith practice many people of faith follow is going on a spiritual retreat. Spiritual Retreats: A Guide to Slowing Down to be with God is a manual to learn about retreats, the many types and benefits of attending one, how to best prepare your heart before arriving at a retreat center, and how to bring home and apply to our daily life, the lessons learned from our time with God. We often find it easier to live in our comfortable routines, excuses, and fear of the unknowns about a retreat. This book through its practical tips, resources, blessings, stories, and inspiration will motivate the reader to put aside the busyness, clamor, and stresses of life to be with God. "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest."

In the busy Christmas season, how do we catch our breath and focus on the real reason for the season - the birth of the Jesus? Ever wonder how to capture those words you want to express in your greeting cards, text messages, emails, social media, or simply welcoming people into our homes? If you love quotes, you will love reading Christmas Seasonings, 101 Quotes and Prayers to Flavor the Holidays. This quick reference to finding the perfect words is full of wisdom and truths to lift the spirt and encourage the heart. Inspirational and thought-provoking quotes bring a sparkle to the season and often a much-needed pause where we stop, rest, and welcome Christmas. Pondering the wise proverbs and prayers of others prepares our hearts for this special time of year. In this book you will find seasonal sayings for Advent, Christmas, and the 12 days after Christmas that will flavor your holidays, add a spirited zest to your life, and hopefully give you a touch of the real reason for the season - celebrating Jesus' birth.

Does your faith need rekindled? Do you spend your days disconnected from God and yearn for a closer relationship with him? Too often Christians live a lukewarm existence mired in a rut of unfulfilled restlessness. How do we live with a vibrant faith? Fuel Your Faith - a Practical Guide to Igniting a Healthy Spirituality is a guidebook to fan the flames of your faith. This book is not a deep theological discourse about spiritual disciplines, but a quick resource for ideas to stir the embers of belief God gives each of us. In Fuel Your Faith, you will: -Discover a potpourri of spiritual practices to move you from stuck to unstuck. -Gather ideas applicable right away to your life to awaken your spirit.-Learn ways to pray, study, connect, and celebrate God's presence.-Find inspiration, encouragement, and courage to explore your faith. Fuel Your Faith will empower you to move from the chilliness of shallow faith to the warmth, power, and comfort of a blazing fire.We can cultivate a healthy spirituality. God wants our faith to grow and our lives to glow with his love. What a marvelous gift God gives us - let's fan the flames of our faith.