Imagine growing up as a little girl having everything you wanted but feeling like something was missing. Imagine feeling rejected, lonely, and always searching for acceptance. Imagine being the girl that was teased for things she couldn't change, and ridiculed for things she did change. Heartbreak, devastation, shame, grief, and discouragement are just a few words that defined Shameka's life...until she decided to Arise. If you have ever wrestled with insecurity, unforgiveness, over functioning, loss, and identity, this is the book for you. If you've tried to reconcile your faith with your feelings, this is the book for you. Arise was written with one goal in mind: to help you find healing in brokenness.

Imagine growing up as a little girl having everything you wanted but feeling like something was missing. Imagine feeling rejected, lonely, and always searching for acceptance. Imagine being the girl that was teased for things she couldn't change, and ridiculed for things she did change. Heartbreak, devastation, shame, grief, and discouragement are just a few words that defined Shameka's life...until she decided to Arise. If you have ever wrestled with insecurity, unforgiveness, over functioning, loss, and identity, this is the book for you. If you've tried to reconcile your faith with your feelings, this is the book for you. Arise was written with one goal in mind: to help you find healing in brokenness.

THE BEAUTY IN BROKENNESS Have you ever tried picking up the broken pieces of a broken ceramic objects or glass and putting them back together? If so, wasn’t it a conscientious task? First, depending on the size of the destruction, you would probably have to search all over the place to recover the broken pieces. Then after collecting all the broken pieces, you are left with yet another formidable task of putting the broken object back to its original form. God makes broken things beautiful. Consent God to heal the wounds of your past heartbreaks and people who left and anyone who couldn’t fully love you. Allow Him teach you the lesson behind each heartbreak. Broken things are despised as meaningless, but God can take what has been broken and remake it into something better, something that He can use for His Glory. Sometimes, God just wants you to surrender. This is a key element of Faith. Surrendering is an act of strength, not weakness. Because it takes a great deal of strength and wisdom to admit that you don’t have all the answers and you can’t change your life. Broken things and broken people are the results of sin.

James A. Harnish, from the Introduction: “I’m broken. So are you. We’re all broken people who live in a broken world. The critical question is, how do we find strength to put broken things back together again? This book is an invitation to touch the scars that mark the broken places in our lives, in the same way the risen Christ invited a doubting disciple to touch the nail scars in his hands. It is a challenge to explore some of the dark places in our human experience, to uncover the sinister power of sin, and to experience the way the grace of God meets us in our broken places to bring new life.”

"But our delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law we meditate day and night (Psalm 1:2). " The Word of God is a powerful weapon that needs to be a large part of our focus. Sadly, it is often pushed to the background behind our hectic, tiring lives. Arise and Shine! is a light in that darkness. Author Justine Nettleton has transposed the Bible's most encouraging statements into first person so you can repeat what is written in prayer. We must be able to hear, meditate, then speak the words of Scripture to create meaning and further change in our society. The world does this without God and gives the universe the glory, but this was first begun by our Father before the world begana "when he spoke and created the heavens and the earth. Arise and Shine! is an opportunity for those who aspire for great things in the kingdom of God to finally make a change; stand up, Arise and Shine!"

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In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape that which ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride! adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.