Coming Home (Ive Been Waiting For Your Return) Is the second book from Werner Toelen And his Co-writer Carol M Toelen. This book has 300 poems. With a wide variation of emotions. They tried to express their feeling in their relationship and of their friends. Love and hate, friendship and a little erotic twist makes this book unique. While writing this book they showed their Internet friends some poetry. The commentaries were astounding They like to thank Jim Warren for his wonderful art gallery http://www.jimwarren.com/ Thats where the cover of this book came from. Theyve written children poems like (hush my little baby, and a knights tale.) There are very good sad poems like (Waiting Forever, Crying In The Wind) They hope you enjoy this book after purchasing it. God Bless You All Werner W.J.F & Carol M Toelen For more work of Mr. & Mrs.Toelen go tothis link: http://webpages.charter.net/cterry002/

Interconnected stories exploring life, love, and passion in an ever-changing community. Esperanza Cintrón's Shades: Detroit Love Storiesis a short story collection that is distinctly Detroit. By touching on a number of romantic and sexual encounters that span the historical and temporal spaces of the city, each of these interconnected stories examines the obstacles an individual faces and the choices he or she makes in order to cope and, hopefully, survive in the changing urban landscape. Shades begins in the 1960s by following two young black women who are determined to find joy in their lives even as they struggle to make ends meet. Their lives continue to evolve under triumphant and disappointing conditions—falling in and out of love, giving birth, raising children, and struggling to "make it" despite disappointing and tenuous love affairs and relationships. The setting throughout the eighteen stories shifts as these women age and their children extend the timeline, reflecting on the city's social and political changes over three decades, as well as the pitfalls, tragedies, and opportunities these linked families encounter. Cintrón favors an everyday vernacular for her characters' voices in order to reflect the complexities of their working/middle-class, ethnic, and racial identities. Divided into two sections, Eastside and Westside, the collection gives a nod to the sometimes contentious geographical split marked by Woodward Avenue. Cintrón takes readers through city streets—from neighborhood bars to burger joints—while painting lyrical portraits of the unique and multifaceted characters whose honesty shatters the illusion of endless love and happily-ever-after fantasies, as they clash with the circumstances of economics and race. Cintrón's stories capture the rhythms of language and the poetry of the people and will interest readers of fiction or poetry who seek to understand love.

Marriage is God's idea. He has no bad ideas. He brought Eve to Adam, married them and they lived as husband and wife for over 900 years (Genesis 2:21-25 and 5:5). By this, we can conclude that divorce was not God's idea but Satan's idea, to destroy God's ideas, plans and purpose of marriage between a man and a woman. We seek to find the right person when the greater picture is to be the right person. Man sets the time for the wedding, but God sets the time for the marriage. There is a great difference between a wedding and a marriage. Many walk down the aisle to be wedded for all the wrong reasons. Saying "I do" and placing wedding rings upon fingers does not always mean they are married within their hearts. This book reveals that a man and a woman may marry, and yet not be a true husband and wife. It stresses the importance of friendship, courtship, engagement and being married from the heart. Introducing a revolutionary approach to the covenant of marriage, this book addresses commitment, romance, love, keeping a right heart, a sound mind and a pure relationship. Dr. Donald R. Downing is a heart physician and specialist from God to the body of Christ. He has written over 12 books, and considers Marriage from the Heart to be one of his most important writings. He believes the only way to defeat the high rate of divorce and separation is to restore romance to the relationship and to be truly married from the heart. FEATURING DRS. MELVIN AND ROBIN THORNHILL Melvin and Robin Thornhill are the founders and presidents of Destiny New Image Ministries. They have a combined 50 years of experience in family and marriage counseling.

From the acclaimed author of A Mighty Love comes a bittersweet saga of love, friendship, sisters--and sisterhood. . . Half-sisters Asha Mitchell and Saundra Patterson are close even though they have almost nothing in common. Twenty-two-year-old Saundra is a clean-living vegan and yoga enthusiast, about to graduate from college and marry her high school sweetheart. She's also a real daddy's girl who believes that her police detective father is the most infallible man on the planet. Twenty-four-year-old Asha is a fiercely independent career woman and serial dater who has no intention of settling down--or giving up meat of any kind. The two are happily planning for Saundra's upcoming nuptials. But the festivities come to an abrupt halt when Saundra makes a shocking discovery that topples her father from his pedestal and shatters her trust in men--including her fiancé. Shaken, Saundra flees to the only place that feels safe: Asha's house. But will living under the same roof bring healing--or be the worst mistake yet for two sisters who couldn't be more different?

Say No to Satans temptations! Are you struggling with temptation and sin? Do you want to learn how to resist Satan and say No to his temptations? If you answered yes, then this book will provide you with an in depth and insightful understanding of evil and temptation, and it will unlock the secret to winning your daily temptation battles. Speaking from his lifelong temptation experience, and with a solid Scriptural foundation, Dr. Voorn has loaded this book with real-life temptation examples, practical applications and a personal temptation self-assessment. This book will help you to: Learn about the spiritual warfare that rages around and in you on a daily basis. Recognize how and when Satan will tempt you. Understand Satans Dirty Dozen temptation strategies. Recognize that your temptation battles are mind games. Learn how to develop a battle plan against Satans temptations. Know how to engage and resist Satan when tempted. Learn how to use your God-given spiritual warfare battle armor. Conduct your personal temptation self-assessment. Resist and overcome daily temptations so that you can better serve Jesus Christ in your journey to God. Now, more than ever, it is time to deadbolt your spiritual warfare door as Dr. Voorn advises us. Why? Because the devil does want you! If you have ever found yourself slipping into the abyss of temptation or if you have been the target of others already corrupted by Satan, you need to read this book. Randy Voorn clearly details how Satan entangles our minds and teaches us how to shield his flaming arrows with bullet prayers! Think about it bullet prayers fast, strategic, and oh so powerful. From the Foreword, by Dr. Lori M. Scrementi, Dean, School of Adult Learning, North Park University.

"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."1 Cor. 13:12The Cycle is about one man's journey as a "child of God". It contains personal reflections, written under the inspiration of God, in poetic form. Each poem is preceded by a corresponding scripture (or two) from the King James Bible. These scriptural references give a reference for devotional study or for simply seeing how the poem relates to the Bible. You will journey through ups and downs, condemnation and redemption, sadness and joy. The feelings of life are brought to bear in an explicit manner that tugs at the fabric of the soul. It is the feeling of going through and coming out...It is the feeling of...The Cycle.

Young is unapologetically blunt as she shares an honest insight into a not so perfect and far from normal life of a real woman starting at puberty and goping through all the different stages and events that life throws in people's way. Life In A Nutshell removes the blinders from readers' eyes, tossing out the great expectations they may have in life and exposing the often harsh realities of life. Do fairytales happen to anyone else other than Cinderella? It would be pure whimsy to think so. But life is what one makes it to be. It can still be a fairytale, somewhat lopsided and unconventional, still with its own imperfect but happy ending.