One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning. In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma--and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us.

This heartwarming picture book reassures children that a parent’s love never lets go—based on the poignant lyrics of JJ Heller’s beloved lullaby “Hand to Hold.” “May the living light inside you be the compass as you go / May you always know you have my hand to hold.” With delightful illustrations and an engaging rhyme scheme, this book offers the promise of security and love every child’s heart longs to know. From skipping stones and counting stars to climbing trees and telling stories, every moment is wrapped snugly in the certain warmth of a parent’s presence and God’s blessing. With poignancy and joy, this bedtime read captures the unconditional love parents want their children to know but so often fail to express amid the chaos of daily life.

The transformation of a Pearl has been taking place, and this time, it's not inside an oyster or a clam. The transformation is taking place in the Heart of Princess Mahsa. The Romance between Jonathan Elias David and Princess Mahsa Elaine Tabori, first revealed in Language of the Heart, through letters that Jonathan wrote to Mahsa, continues in GOD's Pearl of Great Price. As Mahsa places her Love within the confines of Jonathan's Heart, the Love in his Heart has got to have a way to escape! Or otherwise his Heart would feel that it is about to explode! Jonathan finds this route of escape, through expressing the Love he feels within his Heart for Mahsa in letters. In writing these letters, Jonathan lays open his Heart to Mahsa. He converses with her in the wonderful and glorious Language of the Heart, expressing to her, the beauty he sees within her Heart. With the first Half of the now published letters, detailing the Romance between Jonathan and Mahsa, told in Language of the Heart and the second Half in GOD's Pearl of Great Price, you get a glimpse of the translucent luster of the Pearl being formed in the Heart of Mahsa.

My only son was murdered in December 2012 and I was having a very hard time dealing with my grief. I looked into councelling groups but the meetings were held on week nights, and this was impossilbe for me as I work an afternoon shift. I would come home from work and write how I felt in a notepad, as I was doing this, my expressions of grief were coming out in poems. I began posting my expressions of my grief on my facebook page., my family would comment on how beautiful they were, and that maybe I should consider publishing them in a book. I thought no who would really want to read about my grief and how I hurt inside. Then I found a facebook page for grieving mothers and began posting my expressions there. In no time so many grieving mothers from all over were wanting to share my poems. They had all encouraged my to write my expressions in a book and thats what I've done. For all the grieving mothers in the world this is from my heart.

A tender picture book about the shape of something very special - love

She was his plaything unworthy of his love However when he lost a day he came to realize that some love had already been deeply ingrained in him

'Maureen' is a about the author's first and true love, who he wished to have known, but never could.