Every day, inner and outer violence ravages the soul, leaving us weak, fearful, and malnourished. In Soul Custody, Stephen W. Smith presents eight choices to help readers reclaim custody of their one and only life—choices about silence, community, vocation, honoring the body, finding one’s true self, and more. As Smith reminds readers, allowing God to shape the soul leads to the deep, full, and satisfying life that God had in mind all along. This is not a self-help book. It is not a book of easy steps to a happy life. It is an invitation to the life God dreams for each of His children. It is a call to start living—to let the soul wake up to life as God intended.

The positive male presence has always been extremely important in our society. However, for decades that presence has become more scarce and is lacking in the very places where it is most needed: schools, churches, and especially homes. As time goes on, more families are breaking apart because men are walking away. I often wonder if it was my destiny to experience this first hand. Soul Custody is my testimony. It depicts how people can seem to have it all together while completely broken and falling apart inside. In telling my story, I hope to help other men and women dealing with feelings of abandonment, neglect, lack of self-worth, and the despair that is often felt in the absence of the maternal or paternal presence. It is my prayer that this book will assist in the healing process, and help every reader to find a way to move forward.

Global chaos. Dictatorial rule. Gripping fear. And Dalton knows it’s just going to get worse. When the rapture didn't happen like he’d preached it would so many times, former pastor Dalton James was left questioning his faith while his wife and congregation turned on him. Now he wanders the earth all alone. On what might be a fool's journey to a supposed island paradise hidden from the terrors of the new world—and the grasp of the “Peacekeepers,” who are anything but peaceful—Dalton finds that he’s not truly alone. There are others left who haven’t bowed to the evils. The remnants the Bible spoke of. Impossibly, the others are also headed to the fabled paradise and despite his desire to remain alone, Dalton soon finds himself the disenchanted leader of a group of wayward pilgrims. Dalton knows their journey isn’t going to be easy. In fact, it will be nearly impossible to navigate the burning earth while avoiding those who rule it with fear and domination. And “shoot to kill” orders for anyone who stands in their way. Will Dalton overcome his fears and finally find faith? Read now to find out! Great for fans of Jamie Lee Grey, Mark Goodwin and Kyla Stone, A Restless Soul series are short stories of biblically truthful and Christian-based fiction. This is a stand-alone series, meaning each book can be read out of order, much like a television series. Due to content, not recommended for children under 13.

The Handbook of Divorce and Custody brings together mental health professionals and forensic specialists dedicated to working in the legal arena with families in crisis. Section I provides the individual perspectives of experienced clinicians, all of whom share a psychodynamic and developmental purview, and supplements their accounts with the viewpoints of a lawyer and a judge. Section II examines parental psychopathology, which is often at the root of family conflict and turmoil. Section III deals with the nature and extent of the state's potential involvement with the family, from ensuring parents' rights to raise their children to identifying those circumstances that justify the termination of parental rights. The remaining three sections follow the progressive issues engaged by divorcing families as they work their way through the legal system: forensic evaluation, post-divorce legal arrangements, and the emotional aftermath of divorce, including indications for various types of therapeutic intervention. Through the Handbook, contributors pay special attention to a set of core issues that underlie - and complicate - the evaluations, recommendations, and judicial determinations that enter into the divorce/custody process. Specifically, they focus on the inherent conflict between the family's right to privacy and the state's commitment to the best interest of children; the increasingly uncertain question of what constitutes a family and who has the right to legal standing; the problematic role of fathers in the lives of their children; the nature of the evaluation process and the role of the forensic expert in a "good enough" evaluation; the important differences between the role of therapist and the role of evaluator; and, finally, the impact of divorce itself on the lives of today's children.

Georgia Jordan has a wonderful life just as her father always told her that she would. She comes from small town in Michigan. She has one older sister Crystal and one younger brother Eric. George, as her family calls her is shy and her family pushes her to be more outgoing. Crystal takes her everywhere she goes. Eric tries to teach her baseball. To understand the extent of this family’s closeness will explain the level of devastation that George and Crystal experience when their parents and brother are killed in a car accident just hours after Crystal gets married. George lives in fear of being left alone in this world. She is seventeen years old and still in high school. Crystal and Her new husband Ken stay with George and together start to move forward in life. George has a best friend, Tim Wright. Tim has loved George almost from the day he met her. George thinks of them as best friends. She is always looking for the love of her life. That is until she meets Kyle Johnson. Kyle is good looking, smart and popular. He is also a jerk. They break up and just when George starts to move on, Kyle returns. They get engaged just before Kyle leaves to join the army. She is devastated and once again Tim is there to pick up the pieces. They become very close until Tim makes a big mistake and ruins their friendship. It is now Tim that is literally dying of a broken heart until George comes to his rescue. She figures out that she has feelings much deeper for her friend than she ever thought. She is very confused and prays for someone to guide her to the right choice. She gets that help on Christmas Eve when she encounter some mysterious strangers at the long term care facility where she works. They spend Christmas Eve speaking with Georgia and that conversation will prove to be more interesting than anyone could have imagined. She makes her choice and marries the love of her life and gets her happily ever after. They have twins, Rob and Becca and right after George delivers them, she goes into a coma. While she is out, she visits her parents and brother in heaven. She has people on both sides working to bring her back. She wakes up from her coma with a renewed faith in the afterlife. They bring their twins home and settle in to a busy schedule. They are both working part time and going to college. They decide that she will stay and raise the children while he goes to College on the other side of the state to persue a medical degree. This long distance marriage is difficult but they manage to work things out. Life is going pretty good for them. George takes a transfer to a unit that has been shut down for a long time. It is there that she meets Rose, a young girl that has severe brain damage from injuries that she got in a car accident. George discovers that che has a gift. She can sense the presence of earth bound souls. She becomes very close to Rose and her friend William. William is a different sort of friend. He is an earth bound soul waiting for the return of his first love. She learns about William’s Elizabeth and the tragic way that they are separated in life. William has decided to stay with Rose and take her to the other side when her time comes. Together they encounter some interesting souls and help them to move on. Meanwhile, George’s happily ever after falls apart. Thru a series of misunderstanding, she ends up divorced and without her children. She has lost the love of her life and her children. She decides that life isn´t worth living. George ends up in a coma and is moved to the facility where she used to work. William watches over her. He has come to care for George just like he does Rose. Three plots come together to bring yet another miracle on Christmas Eve for George. She remarries the love of her life and they finally really do get their happily after. They experience the birth of a child and the l

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An unforgettable novel about what happens when a marriage collapses Shagun is a woman of unassailable social standing, married to a man chosen for her—a rising executive. Her lover is her husband’s boss. She asks for a divorce, and all hell breaks loose. Locked in a venomous legal battle for custody of their eight-year-old son and two-year-old daughter, Shagun and Raman begin a journey that will have unforetold consequences. Set against the backdrop of upper-middle-class South Delhi, Custody is both a searing indictment of India’s judicial system and an intimate portrait of a failing marriage and a family.