Created by actress and comedian Kim Coles, who shares her own personal hardships and survivals, this anthology will support you in regaining your spiritual resiliency to design a life of passion. Centered on the core themes of gratitude, intention, forgiveness, triumph, and self-love, each chapter reveals the necessary elements of purposeful living and how to acquire them. The intimate expressions herein will help you liberate your inner child, collect all the life lessons you've obtained so far, and welcome them into the abundance of your future. Enlightening, accessible, and rooted in real people's experiences, Open Your G.I.F.T.S. is a required reading for women seeking satisfaction and fulfillment in their lives. Unearth your authentic positioning and discover what your empowering destiny in this world really is. Learn more at www.KimColes.tv

Gifts in Open Hands contains a wealth of multicultural liturgies, prayers, affirmations, blessings, and poetry by people from the global community. These beautifully written pieces can be used in worship and celebration of sacraments, sacred seasons, and all other occasions in the life of the church.

Do you know God has given you the Greatest Gift ever given? Have you opened His Gift? If not, why not? Maybe you think you’ll always have tomorrow to open it. But what if you don’t. Your life could end without warning. Or maybe you’re just content with life and think you have everything you’ll ever need. Or maybe, you’ve never heard about this gift from God and don’t know that it even exists. Which case are you? Let’s open this gift from God together. Let’s go verse by verse from the Bible about the death, burial, resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and witnessed accounts of Him being alive again. And then how to receive His Gift. If at the end of this book you decide you don’t want this gift, it’s ok. It’s your choice. But what if this gift changes your life forever? Don’t wait. Tomorrow may not come. Open this gift from God today.

We are all born with special gifts and talents. We all have something unique to offer humanity. We were created to discover and share our gifts and talents with others. Unfortunately, fear, doubt, and the many trials and tribulations of life, have deterred us from discovering the special seeds God placed in our spirits at birth. Take a walk with Patricia M. Goins as she takes you on a personal journey, and guides you toward opening your own special gifts from God.

There is no greater testament to faith, hope, love, and peace than the gift of light to show up to shine through the darkest moments of life. Many times, the why and, how to moments seem difficult to find the answers of how to navigate through. Open Your Greatest Gift is like a guide to show a daily practice on how to activate the characteristics that were planted inside during birth. Once the vow and determination have been made to open up to these scripts, the gifts unfold to be opened. As the scripts are used ongoing, more scripts that may have not been realized show up. Each situation becomes a story that teaches. The story could have a hidden miracle inside that gives hope that anything is possible when the gifts are used. Open Your Greatest Gift has a collection of short stories that discover and uncover how each character learns how to open their greatest gifts while sometimes in the face of defeat, denial, or unknowing. Many times, in the direct face of darkness, it gets granted and delivered. The delivery of the gifts of Joy and Peace along with Love and Gratitude can calm the soul.

Having “the talk” can sometimes be an awkward experience for both parent and child. Even so, I didn’t want to wait until my children’s hormones kicked in, and I didn’t want to be caught off guard when they had questions, but most of all, I didn’t want them growing up with misconceptions concerning sex. I wanted my children to be informed about the facts of life, yet without being too sexually explicit in the process, because some of the facts weren’t good such as pornography, diseases, and predators, but these subjects needed to be addressed as well. As a result, I told them what I have written in Your Special Gift, by using the analogy of a gift, a lock, and a key to define commonly used sexual terms, and to caution them about possible consequences, and to warn them of potential predators. I also used Scripture as the basis of defining true love. The simplicity of the gift analogy opens the door of communication between parent and child in an effective straightforward, and yet sensitive way, so that any question concerning sex can be answered by using this method. Your Special Gift is well-suited for children in the 8-to-12 year-old range.