In a world full of pretense and confusion, a certain feeling of loneliness settles after a days living. Author Laurel Mae Compton offers an emotional shot in the arm as she provides a boost of encouragement and a refreshing point of view to life in her debut book titled Petals from the Rose of My Heart. Radiating hopefulness in these tumultuous times, Compton believes that everyone needs a little motivating push from time to time. She shares her faith and beliefs aiming to exude positivity in this inspiring collection as she brings together more than 30 of her inimitable poems capable of changing ones disposition and outlook in life. She uses her exceptional craftsmanship in the realm of poetry to enthuse people who are down and disheartened and offer them a little lift in her new book. Brimming with invigorating and revealing poems, this book is tangible proof to the authors talent in masterfully interlacing words and rhymes to generate a kick-starting mood on the road to the brighter side of living. With thought-provoking lines and verses, it commemorates major traditions in Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Joy as it celebrates simple, unforgettable events as Happy Mothers Day and April Morning. It showcases apothegmatic pieces as sung in Stand in the Circle of Love, God is Always the Answer and I am Gods Radiant Child, creating a poignant reminder that good things are attainable by keeping the hopes up and trusting the Almighty Father above. The authors poems have been recognized in Young America Sings in 1945, National Library of Poetry from 1993 to 1997, with Angels Kiss, O Soul of Mine Rise Up and The Gift included in the Best Poems Publication in 1995, 1996 and 1997 respectively. In this enlightening anthology, readers are redirected to what is truly essential in life with the remarkable words of wisdom palpable from page to page. Pregnant with faith, love and joy, Petals from the Rose of My Heart plunges into the depths and realities of existence as it draws readers to a closer relationship with God.

What happens when a former Zen Buddhist monk and his feminist wife experience an apparition of the Virgin Mary? “This book could not have come at a more auspicious time, and the message is mystical perfection, not to mention a courageous one. I adore this book.”—Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit Before a vision of a mysterious “Lady” invited Clark Strand and Perdita Finn to pray the rosary, they were not only uninterested in becoming Catholic but finished with institutional religion altogether. Their main spiritual concerns were the fate of the planet and the future of their children and grandchildren in an age of ecological collapse. But this Lady barely even referred to the Church and its proscriptions. Instead, she spoke of the miraculous power of the rosary to transform lives and heal the planet, and revealed the secrets she had hidden within the rosary’s prayers and mysteries—secrets of a past age when forests were the only cathedrals and people wove rose garlands for a Mother whose loving presence was as close as the ground beneath their feet. She told Strand and Finn: The rosary is My body, and My body is the body of the world. Your body is one with that body. What cause could there be for fear? Weaving together their own remarkable story of how they came to the rosary, their discoveries about the eco-feminist wisdom at the heart of this ancient devotion, and the life-changing revelations of the Lady herself, the authors reveal an ancestral path—available to everyone, religious or not—that returns us to the powerful healing rhythms of the natural world.

My poetry comes from the heart and reflects my journey as a woman through the uncertainty of love; from passion to heartache, hurt to healing and powerlessness to empowerment and finding the strength and courage to love again.

Once upon a time a caniwi author wrote a fairytale treasury to fit a modern reader's bookshelf. With the tone of a Grimm's tale, the magic of a Disney story, and the morality and representation of 2021, this little book promises to capture your heart.Enjoy nine unique fairytales about magic, bravery, integrity, loyalty and love, regardless of gender.

Despite their importance, the poems of St. Thérèse of Lisieux are among the least known of her writings, previously available only in highly edited selections. Here for the first time in English is the complete collection of Thérèse's poetry, faithfully translated from the French critical edition by Donald Kinney, O.C.D. Also included are a preface by Jean Guitton, a general introduction to Thérèse's spiritual and poetic development, 6 photos, and individual introductions to each of the poems, indicating its background and significance. The volume closes with the French text of the poems and a fully linked index to their major themes and images. Together with the ICS Publications editions of Thérèse of Lisieux's Story of a Soul, Last Conversations, Letters, Plays, and Prayers, this is an indispensible work for all those who love the life and spiritual message of "the greatest saint of modern times."

Graham Stuart Thomas stands alone as the world's pre-eminent rose gardener. In this unique presentation he focuses on the uses of a variety of garden plants--flowering and nonflowering--with which to create enduring garden designs that rescue roses from the stiff formality of most ornamental gardens. Here, Mr. Thomas employs the lessons of the magnificent garden at Mottisfont Abbey, first created by him in 1972 and extended in the 1980s, to demonstrate thrilling design choices and methods of lengthening the flowering seasons open to any alert gardener. As Henry Mitchell, the Washington Post's distinguished horticulturist, puts it: "It was Thomas who launched the revival of interest in roses long out of commerce...He found many of the unheard-of nineteenth-century roses at Bobbink and Atkins Nursery in New Jersey and the old Lester and Tillotson Nursery in California. The authority of Graham Stuart Thomas is by no means limited to roses. He writes authoritatively on perennials, garden design, the grouping of plants, on groundcovers and much else...Few gardeners are so catholic or such connoisseurs." The present book is a glorious display--in words and color illustrations--of Mr. Thomas's gardens, providing an education for the reader in the design of his own garden. Photographs show roses close up and in garden settings with complementary plants that extend the flowering season of the gardens into the late fall. The author explores the origins of the roses selected and explains how he has employed their particular qualities in his designs. He includes a checklist to assist gardeners who wish to re-create these sumptuous plant combinations.