A Month of Virtues for Healing and Healthy Living outlines thirty-one daily reflections on virtues that can lead one to healing and to healthy living. Warren L. Naegele, drawing upon decades of experience ministering to people in congregations and in clinical settings, has crafted acrostics that build upon the letters spelling each virtue and that present inspiring thoughts dedicated to promoting personal wellbeing. Each day’s reflection leads the reader to dwell on a particular virtue by sketching out the Bible’s guidance, offering the virtue’s related acrostic, reflecting on the benefits of the virtue, suggesting a prayer, and listing suggested scriptural readings. The most distinctive feature of each entry—the acrostic—uses the strengths of poetry to make its message memorable. So, for instance, “Joy” finds its expression with these lines: “Jesus came into the world as the / Only begotten Son of the Father. / Yes, He is the Savior of the world.” When you survey your life and find you have the desire to grow spiritually, to set out on a journey to healing, and to change your habits and activities to ones that promote healthy living, then A Month of Virtues for Healing and Healthy Living stands ready to supply a month’s worth of enlightening and inspiring reflections on virtues for living. Spend a month with this collection as your companion to help you progress on your spiritual journey toward deeply virtuous and abiding wellness.

A Month of Virtues for Healing and Healthy Living outlines thirty-one daily reflections on virtues that can lead one to healing and to healthy living. Warren L. Naegele, drawing upon decades of experience ministering to people in congregations and in clinical settings, has crafted acrostics that build upon the letters spelling each virtue and that present inspiring thoughts dedicated to promoting personal wellbeing. Each day's reflection leads the reader to dwell on a particular virtue by sketching out the Bible's guidance, offering the virtue's related acrostic, reflecting on the benefits of the virtue, suggesting a prayer, and listing suggested scriptural readings. The most distinctive feature of each entry-the acrostic-uses the strengths of poetry to make its message memorable. So, for instance, "Joy" finds its expression with these lines: "Jesus came into the world as the / Only begotten Son of the Father. / Yes, He is the Savior of the world." When you survey your life and find you have the desire to grow spiritually, to set out on a journey to healing, and to change your habits and activities to ones that promote healthy living, then A Month of Virtues for Healing and Healthy Living stands ready to supply a month's worth of enlightening and inspiring reflections on virtues for living. Spend a month with this collection as your companion to help you progress on your spiritual journey toward deeply virtuous and abiding wellness.

It’s the weekend of the senior retreat at Padre Island and Naomi Watkins, the daughter of Rev. Harry and Sarah Watkins, is enjoying the respite. She’s feeling good and has too much to drink. And although she’s engaged, she has sex with two different classmates. Nine months later, Naomi gives birth to bio paternity twins, one conceived by the white father and the other by the black father. Unlikely Twins tells the story about the four families involved, the church congregation, and the challenges stemming from Naomi’s choices. It shares the heartache, the embarrassment, the hurt, and the healing. In this novel, the characters must confront their assumptions about race in order to build genuine relationships—the nature of which takes a surprising turn. Individuals and families must set aside their differences to support one another, and in the process, they find this openness has allowed love to blossom. An uplifting tale, it sends the message to all to maintain an open mind and be accepting of others.

"Promise of the Soul is a spiritual workbook. Through simple, accessible exercises and reflections, Kenny offers us practical and proven methods that have enabled thousands of his counseling clients to relinquish their separation from God s love and live from the heart.... Step by step, Kenny s approach shows us how we can release ourselves from self-imposed limitations and lifelong feelings of inadequacy to live a more soul-infused life. It is impossible to read this book without finding yourself somewhere in its pages and setting yourself free. It is a real opportunity." --From the Foreword by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather s Blessings "An excellent resource for creating a new covenant that will enable you to expand your belief system and your life." --Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine and Miracles and Prescriptions for Living "This book, like the topic itself, is beautiful and enchanting. This spiritual light is steeped in the great traditions, yet its presentation is original, creative, and brilliant. An essential key to making peace with God is identifying and healing your spiritual covenant and realizing the promise of your soul." --Harold Bloomfield, M.D., author of Making Peace with God "Promise of the Soul is an exceptional guide to examining the spiritual promises or covenants we make with the sacred. Whether we are Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, or of any other faith, this book transcends all paths and beliefs to help each of us identify which sacred promises are limiting and which are beneficial to our spiritual unfolding and inherent well-being." --Angeles Arrien, Ph.D., author of The Four-Fold Way and Signs of Life "By bringing to light our basic beliefs about how life works, Dennis Kenny gives us room to breathe, to change, to be liberated from prisons of our own making. As a skilled chaplain and teacher, he shows us simple ways to become larger, happier people all that God really wants us to be. This book might just set you free." --Wayne Muller, author of Sabbath and How, Then, Shall We Live?

With a focus on how to improve the effectiveness and cultural competence of clinical services and research, this authoritative volume synthesizes current knowledge on both the physical and psychological health of African Americans today. In chapters that follow a consistent format for easy reference, leading scholars from a broad range of disciplines review risk and protective factors for specific health conditions and identify what works, what doesn't work, and what might work (i.e., practices requiring further research) in clinical practice with African Americans. Historical, sociocultural, and economic factors that affect the quality and utilization of health care services in African American communities are examined in depth. Evidence-based ways to draw on individual, family, and community strengths in prevention and treatment are highlighted throughout. Winner--American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award

Through using the knowledge and practices in this book, the diseases in your body can be cured and you can remain in a refreshed, healthy state. ​​Even if you do not have diseases in your body, you could still read this book in order to have a better understanding: 1. on how the cosmic energies serve you. 2. about the relationships which you have with the cosmic energies, God, etc. This book explains: 1. how you can absorb God’s energies to heal any disease which exists in your body. 2. how to get the cosmic energies to serve you better so that you can live a better, healthier life while achieving your aims. 3. how you can heal yourself and remain healthy through a positive influence on the cosmic energies since the cosmic energies serve you based on your thoughts, feelings, aims etc. 4. how you can get healed through your Holographic Body. 5. about the Universal Laws through which you get healed. 6. why practices, involving Chi or Prana, have been successfully used to heal people without any medicine. 7. how the impure energies of the soul influence your body to get diseased and how the pure energies of the soul influence the healing of the body. 8. how you can easily get healed through the soul conscious stage. 9. how you can have more control over your mind, intellect and memories; and how this will assist you to get healed. 10. how you can develop a close relationship with God, through which you can get God's assistance to get or achieve whatever you want, including good health. 11. how you can have the energies from the Angelic World within your aura and environment; and how this will help to eliminate your diseases. 12. how you and others can be cured through distant healing. 13. how you can have hands that could heal through your touch. 14. how the cosmic energies could provide food with better nutrients and medicinal value. 15. how your body can get healed when you sleep in remembrance of God. Through using the knowledge and meditation guidelines in this book, you will establish your link to God and begin the process to get your body healed through being exposed to: 1. God’s powerful healing energies, and 2. the cosmic energies which have been energised by God’s energies. These powerful cosmic energies (Chi or Prana) serve God and you well, since they are in the powerful state. Thus, all diseases can be instantly eliminated from your body. You can also expose yourself to God’s energies so as to become and remain refreshed.