Resultados para "Kiss" en Religión y espiritualidad

"I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages." These words, often attributed to 19th-century British preacher Charles Spurgeon, provide a unique perspective on suffering. What if God intends to work through our suffering rather than simply take it away? After living for more than a decade with a debilitating nerve condition in both arms, Dave Furman wants to expand our view of suffering by demonstrating that God, in his grace, always designs and uses trials for our good.

"Sometimes I want to spend hours talking with my best friends about boys and fashion and school and life. I want to go to the gym; I want my hair to look nice; I want to be allowed to wear jeans. I want to be a normal young woman living in America, sometimes. But I want other things more. All the time. I want to be spiritually and emotionally filled every day. I want to be loved and cuddled by a hundred children and never go a day without laughing.

If there is one tactile gesture that has immense metaphorical value in the bible, it is the kiss. The most famous kiss was one of betrayal, but others would be for good. Bonar further interprets the kiss Oprah gives her mother-in-law in great detail and shows how truly complex this symbol can be.

This practical guide to Witchcraft both embraces and celebrates queer men through an impressive collection of spells, rituals, and exercises. The Satyr's Kiss empowers everyone who identifies as male to take his rightful place at the center of his own universe, honoring the unique qualities that set him apart from the mainstream. Emphasizing the importance of sexuality in Witchcraft, this book features a variety of methods for celebrating sex in a magical way. Join Storm Faerywolf on a queer-centered exploration of magical philosophy, history, rites of passage, and sex magic.

Guidance from the other side: Life on Earth can be crazy hard. Each lifetime gives us new opportunities to learn and grow spiritually, but it's not easy to know which way to go. Renowned medium Concetta Bertoldi knows your loved ones are there to send a hello from heaven and guide you from the other side. In I Kissed a Ghost (And I Liked It), the New York Times best-selling author shares lessons that she and her clients have learned through contact with the "dead folks" who have our backs.  

Ellery knows it wasn't a real kiss. He was only practicing so it wouldn't be so awkward when he kissed the girl he was actually in love with. She's nothing but a stand-in...the second-choice substitute. She knows it in her head. Too bad her heart isn't listening.

Bestselling author Michael Foley dives deep into the history of Christmas and the customs that surround this beloved holiday. Learn about the fascinating origins of your favorite Christmas food, drink, observances, and songs. Discover how Saint Nicolas, a fourth-century Catholic bishop, became Santa Clause and who Santa’s global competitors are (some of them will shock you). And dig into the forbidden history of the Yuletide season’s dark and ghoulish side.

In 1960, an upstart Pittsburgh Pirates team beat the highly favored New York Yankees in the World Series. Given the power of a Yankee roster that included Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Yogi Berra, that improbably victory did more than give long-suffering Pirates fans something to cheer about; it put Pittsburgh on the map. Though John Moody was only six years old during that magical baseball season, he was a devoted fan of the Pittsburgh team. The star pitcher for the Pirates and John's first hero was Vernon Law - an unsophisticated Idaho country boy, widely known as The Deacon, a friendly nickname derived from his strict Mormon upbringing.

Christmas has a way of reminding us of what really matters and what could be more important than our loved ones? From husbands and wives to boyfriends and girlfriends to long-lost loves, the real-life romances in this book are surrounded by the joy and blessings of the Christmas season. This...

For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous narratives are widely known - yet there's a rich literary tradition of Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond this handful of stories. Here, the poet Seán Hewitt and painter Luke Edward Hall collect together, for the first time, forty of the most exhilarating queer tales in the classical canon and bring them newly to life.

The sacrament of Matrimony is under diabolical attack. While it is easy to blame the outside world for the demise of marriage, we must look at what has been happening inside the Church. The number of marriages have dwindled over the past five decades and annulments have skyrocketed. Many in Church leadership have been indifferent to these alarming trends and to marriage itself. Matrimony is rarely referenced during homilies, pre-Cana programs are often disastrous, and seminaries spend little time studying the sacrament of Matrimony.

Todd Wright takes listeners on an unforgettable journey back to simpler times in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, putting us smack in the middle of real-life experiences that are certain to make us examine our character and calibrate our moral compasses. He takes us to a place where parents, grandparents, teachers, and neighbors work together to teach self-leadership. He allows his listeners to smell the freshly plowed fields of his childhood, to feel the fear of facing a bully, or to sit on a hay wagon and listen to his grandfather’s cattle crunch happily on hay.

Allison DuBois, inspiration for the hit TV show Medium, shares fascinating stories of encounters with the dead and adventures as a criminal profiler. Her visions have helped solve crimes; her instincts have helped find missing people. She can predict future events and read your mind. When she...

Lia Carswell is good at what she does - even if it isn't as glamorous as her old life in Manhattan. The popular waitress works hard in a small Salt Lake City diner, with the goal of easing her sister's financial strain. And with her witty personality and good looks, she's something of an enigma to the male customers who vie for her attention. Ever the professional, Lia keeps her distance - with one exception.

Limit suffering and illness. In Buddhism, the Second Noble Truth is the concept that everyone suffers and something causes suffering. Chakra balancing is a form of energy healing that focuses on channeling energy into the seven chakras that run from the bottom of our spine to the crown of our heads.

A Gentle Kiss from God is the culmination of a life punctuated with roadblocks, depression, mental abuse, and post-abuse fallout; a life that finds comfort and hope in a deep trust in God; a creative young woman who seeks expression through her Christian faith from early childhood and her love of writing. The result? A book of thoughts and passions that comes together in the pulse of poetry and song, hope and beauty. Despite her own life that had despaired for love and harmony, her writings erupt into hope and comfort, strength, beauty, and a joie de vivre!

For nearly five years, the Soul Artist Journal, a weekly e-column/blog by healer, chef, and author L.R. Heartsong, explored the art of living a meaningfully connected existence, celebrating "a life for the senses." Though the posts were diverse, the underlying theme was always, how do we nourish the soul? TO KNEEL AND KISS THE EARTH is the first compilation volume in an anthology, a gathering of posts selected from the archives and twenty-plus categories, spanning the Journal's arc of existence.

It has always been tricky to navigate relationships between men and women, and Christians only make matters worse with a plethora of contradicting opinions on the righteous way to "do" Romance. Questions have been swirling around the dating issue for at least a generation, but the Church is still groping to find the right road.

A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author’s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry—a vocal...

Toward the Ultimate Source describes the shocking metaphysical trips of an experienced trailblazing spiritual traveler, a former journalist, from his physical body all the way to the source of everything. Through an exciting and entertaining true narrative based on meditations using modern technology, he leads us into the environment of unconditional love where angelic beings reside in his quest to understand the core of a human spiritual existence and purpose. He engages those beings in amazing conversations which lead to incredible revelations.