God Of Our Silent Tears

Does God hear us when we cry to Him in the silence of our hearts? Gary Taylor is like most drug addicts. He's insolent, manipulative, untrusting, and secretive; but there's one secret he has never told even his brother. The secret's out when his parents, Frank and Charlene Taylor, are forced into their last resort for intervention. How could this kind of thing exist in a God-fearing family like theirs? What went wrong? Where do they begin? The devastating effects of this unfolding secret disrupts all their lives. Their recovery journey begins in Gary's high school years. Each member of the Taylor family reveals their own secrets and learns from a God they thought they knew.

From the organization that brought us The Black Family Reunion cookbooks comes The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro, a fun, richly brewed collection of recipes, historical facts, photos, and personal anecdotes. First published in 1958 by the National Council of Negro Women, it includes contributions from members in thirty-six states plus the District of Columbia and offers exceptional insight into American history and the African-American community at the time of its publication. As John Hope Franklin (whose own family owns a copy of the book) points out, much of the cultural information in the cookbook has never been passed down to successive generations. Arranged according to the calendar year, the cookbook opens with a cake to be baked in celebration of both New Year's Day and the Emancipation Proclamation. Scattered among the recipes one finds excerpts from documents such as the Gettysburg Address and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Tributes to well-known figures like Harriet Tubman, Phillis Wheatley, and Booker T. Washington appear alongside brief bios and recipes in celebration of important but obscured figures. This delightful collection of delicious recipes helps us commemorate African-American history throughout the year.

Many a silent tear have marked a trail of loss over the years, but God in His faithful love has always sent me butterflies of hope, a reminder that life is fragile but exquisitely beautiful. Silent Tears is an intimate, raw and honest collection of poems, spanning seventeen years of my life. I began writing as a form of release to cope with the tragic losses I faced over the years. These poems have been a great source of comfort to me and my hope is that they will touch and comfort you too. We never cry alone, someone always hears our Silent Tears.