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Author | : Sarah Parsons |
Publisher | : Upper Room Books |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2017-12-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0835812618 |
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Cities across the world celebrate Mardi Gras with colorful parades and over-the-top parties. Then Ash Wednesday arrives … Sigh. Lent has begun. You hear about devout friends giving up seemingly innocent things like chocolate or stressing out as they try to live a more perfect life during six grueling weeks—for reasons you don't completely understand. Sermons about penitence are preached, and guilt soaks the congregation. Sound like a good time?! It's time to rethink Lent. Or at least see it for the positive opportunity it offers. It's spring cleaning for the soul! Lent offers you time to pause, consider, and renew your relationship with God—an altogether hopeful (not dreary) experience. "To arrive at newness of life, we first name parts of our lives that are shrouded in darkness," writes Parsons. "To put it very dramatically,… your first order of business is to break your heart for God. We walk through some muck so that we can leave it behind and find Easter joy beyond…. With God's help we will clear the darkness away and begin to experience greater joy and newness of life." Sure, there's work to be done during Lent, but it's the gentle, gradual work of opening one's heart and mind to grace. A Clearing Season will move you week by week from "wilderness to holy ground," using a personal tone that will stir and challenge personal reflection. Parsons includes exercises for small groups, as well as questions at the end of each chapter for individual reflection. Also included is an appendix of spiritual practices for Lent. This Lent, clear away the obstacles that block you from God, and experience spiritual renewal.
Author | : Alisa Vernon |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1410742717 |
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Author | : Andrew Revkin |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2004-09-30 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781559630894 |
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"In the rain forests of the western Amazon," writes author Andrew Revkin, "the threat of violent death hangs in the air like mist after a tropical rain. It is simply a part of the ecosystem, just like the scorpions and snakes cached in the leafy canopy that floats over the forest floor like a seamless green circus tent." Violent death came to Chico Mendes in the Amazon rain forest on December 22, 1988. A labor and environmental activist, Mendes was gunned down by powerful ranchers for organizing resistance to the wholesale burning of the forest. He was a target because he had convinced the government to take back land ranchers had stolen at gunpoint or through graft and then to transform it into "extractive reserves," set aside for the sustainable production of rubber, nuts, and other goods harvested from the living forest. This was not just a local land battle on a remote frontier. Mendes had invented a kind of reverse globalization, creating alliances between his grassroots campaign and the global environmental movement. Some 500 similar killings had gone unprosecuted, but this case would be different. Under international pressure, for the first time Brazilian officials were forced to seek, capture, and try not only an Amazon gunman but the person who ordered the killing. In this reissue of the environmental classic The Burning Season, with a new introduction by the author, Andrew Revkin artfully interweaves the moving story of Mendes's struggle with the broader natural and human history of the world's largest tropical rain forest. "It became clear," writes Revkin, acclaimed science reporter for The New York Times, "that the murder was a microcosm of the larger crime: the unbridled destruction of the last great reservoir of biological diversity on Earth." In his life and untimely death, Mendes forever altered the course of development in the Amazon, and he has since become a model for environmental campaigners everywhere.
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Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Dyes and dyeing |
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Author | : United States. Philippine Commission, 1900-1916 |
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Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Philippines |
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Author | : New York State College of Agriculture. Extension Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Agricultural extension work |
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Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Fisheries |
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Author | : Stephenson Training And Agricultural School |
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Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Agricultural education |
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Total Pages | : 1532 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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