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Twelve Steps to Take, Twelve Promises to Keep is a daily meditation journal that gives the reader the opportunity to explore the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Promises in depth. Each person has an intimate relationship with the steps as they relate to their personal recovery. This daily meditation journal is meant to slowly and methodically reveal the personal journey of recovery for the reader. Recovery is a life long process, not a quick fix. We suffer from a terminal illness that has no cure. We only have a daily reprieve, based on our spiritual fitness. This is our spiritual work out program. It requires dedication and discipline. The author shares her insights of the Twelve Steps an ...

What forms the character of one's life and faith? How does an octogenarian convey to her children, grandchildren and their children the nature of that forming? Following the example of Joshua erecting an obelisk of 12 stones marking a formative event in the history of Israel, this grandmother shares twelve stories of her formation. Threads of hope, healing, protection, guidance, and provision weave together to provide answers to The Who, how and why questions engendered by her life. Her hope is that the reader, especially her family, will be reinforced in their faith that God sees them and is with them and for them.

In early 1972 Youth for Christ sponsored a singing tour of various foreign countries for the group, The Mighty Wind. I served as a young 26 year old chaperone on the tour and spoke to thousands of people about the undeserved gift Christ offers us. One of the young women who arranged our itinerary in Brisbane, Australia was a vivacious, beach suntanned blond girl who was the assistant to the regional director of Youth for Christ. Our 10 day acquaintance during the team's time in the Brisbane area produced a telegram sent a couple weeks later from Hong Kong to this young woman asking her to marry me. She accepted and in early 1973 flew to cold, snowy Minnesota to eventually marry ...

Después de vivir en Acapulco durante años, una mañana de 2011 recibí una llamada telefónica de alguien, tal vez un pandillero de un cártel de la droga, amenazándome con decapitarme si no pagaba un rescate. Múltiples asesinatos y decapitaciones ocurrían regularmente en la ciudad. Recientemente, un buen amigo mío había sido perseguido por la calle principal, su cuerpo acribillado a balazos cuando la violenta confrontación llegó a su fin, todo al alcance de la oreja de mi apartamento cercano. Estas cosas eran demasiado reales. En 2002 me mudé a Acapulco, México, un pueblo de playa tropical mucho más allá de su mejor momento, pero que sigue siendo una especie de paraíso. Los policías corrupt ...

This is the biography of a family member who served as a ball turret gunner on a B-17 bomber with the 96th Bomb Group in WWII. The story follows him thru the various stages of training he went thru to become an aerial gunner, tells of the bomber crew he was assigned to and gives an account of each mission they flew. Included are photos and various mission reports.

When Faced with a tragedy or circumstances that seem insurmountable, we can either bury our heads in the sand or stand up and face those daunting events. This is my journey through the loss of a child and how I was able to fight my way back to me.

Life in a post war, small Indiana town through the eyes of a child. Memories of those who influenced that child and the many adventures that shaped a young boy. Simpler times and life style and how life unfolded to a little boy. Photographs of paintings by the author are included in the book. Funny, nostalgic and sometimes a melancholy remembrance of a young life.

This summary ties together numerous pieces of information that I have collected over many years of research, into one comprehensive history about the Wagner family in Hausen. The tale begins with Hans Wagner (abt.1505-1575) who was the first Wagner to arrive in the village and explores the puzzling history of his descendants up to the immigration of Michael Wagner (1822-1903) to Lake County, Illinois in 1845.

Warren R Barrett was a career US Air Force Officer. He was a glider pilot during World War II. This book describe his military career from 1939 until his retirement in 1960. He died in 2007.

'WE'RE NOT CRAZY, WE'RE IRISH' is a riveting and true story about three generations of the author's maternal Irish-American extended family, beginning with a young teenage elopement in the year 1902 and continuing throughout the Twentieth Century. Seasoned with a generous amount of Irish wit and vintage photos of the actual characters and eras portrayed, it provides a firsthand look into the complex world of evolving Irish-American family relations and social standings as they begin to further distance themselves from their 'Old World' legacies. With ample doses of triumph and tragedy, laughter and lament and cautionary tales, the reader will be taken on a fast-paced and dizzying ride th ...