Shattered Windows What would you do If you had a choice to be killer or be killed? "....I remember vividly, the day my mom grabbed my hair and whispered, "it's better to be the killer than to be killed". I looked at her in fright as I heard the word killer slither out of her mouth. I started to kick and scream for her to let me go so I could run away and avoid the kind of future she's planned ahead for me...." Excerpt from chapter 1 of this riveting novella from a teenage author Nevaeh and her mother never had a normal relationship. They never expressed how it is to love someone. Well, what would you do if you had a choice to kill your mother or die? In this novel, Nevaeh experiences things that no child should go through. She's been brought into a life that is no longer her own. What would you do? If you had a choice to be the killer or to be killed? Find out in this thought-provoking tale from Harmony Banwo

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Jesus, holier than anyone, made Himself less than everyone, and loved people no matter what. Now, it's our turn. Shattered Windows & Pointless Dreams is a call to action. It is a call for the Church to pursue the least, the lost, the lonely, and the forgotten. It is a call for the Church to pursue individuals with lives that are shattered and dreams deemed pointless because of generational poverty and abuse. When we pursue the least, the lost, the lonely, and the forgotten, Heaven touches down. I invite you on this journey with me as we pursue a world filled with Shattered Windows and Pointless Dreams.

A sensitive and penetrating reflection on coming of age in a Dutch immigrant family scarred by violence Arthur Boers’s earliest memory was of shattered glass. His father threw a potted plant at his mother, and she ducked as the plant crashed through a window of the family home. His mother cleaned up the shards that day; later in life, he would find himself called upon to pick up the pieces as well. In Shattered, Boers reflects on coming of age in a family scarred by violence. The son of Dutch immigrants, Boers illuminates the generational trauma of the Nazi occupation of Holland, refracted in vignettes of his boyhood in postwar Canada. His hard-working, Calvinist family is endearing but ultimately unable to address the insidious cycle of abuse that passed father to son. Breaking with this silence and complicity, Boers reflects candidly and empathetically on his tumultuous relationship with his father. Intertwined with this narrative is his emerging vocation to ministry, more mystical and expressive than the Reformed tradition in which he was raised. Forthright and authentic, Boers extends a hand in solidarity to readers who have been wounded by those who were meant to protect them the most. With Shattered, he charts a path toward healing through faith.

Where to begin... Take a moment to breathe. The door isn’t yellow, I know. “It’s infuriating.” We know it’s infuriating, Paul, but we’ve only just arrived. “I haven’t even been given any directions. How am I going to find her office?” It’s unlikely that you will. He hasn’t even crossed the threshold and the complaining has begun. What will he say to her yellow stripe, to the cannon on the roof and the politics found in the halls? It’s hard to imagine but it won’t be hard for long. Open the door and you’ll feel the love. Paul might cringe time and time again, but we hope you’ll feel differently. The mind boggles, the stomach reels and the knees quake, come and feel for yourself. Madam President welcomes you with open arms.

When something happens that shatters a life beyond recognition, what becomes of the soul? Trapped in a gilded cage for as long as she can remember, Hannah has tried to escape numerous times, in countless ways. She's been told all along that there's something wrong with her, something that her doctors can't diagnose. But what is life without freedom? Hannah would rather die than stay imprisoned forever. Another escape, once more the door slams shut with her locked behind it. Then Trevor offers her a way out, one that might actually mean permanent liberation for her. But at what cost? Trevor doesn't know the truth about her. Despite her fear that he'll be like all the others and turn away from her in horror, she longs to share her secret with him. Trevor has worked hard to make up for all the mistakes he's made in his life. Helping Hannah feels like the right thing to do – more than anything else he's ever done. But, to free her, the risks he takes asks more of him than he thought possible. After all, enemies aren't only outside in the world. Some are inside us… we just don’t know it…