Joy Like A Mountain

In a world dominated by stress, worry, depression, and fear, what does it take to generate joy and reclaim the life you were created to live? In this compelling and thought-provoking book, author Talasi Guerra addresses the joy crisis facing our culture today. Having struggled to personally reconcile the difficult experience of her day-to-day life with the biblical mandate to choose joy, Talasi explores the critical connection between joy and suffering and offers a profound view of how intentional joy can revolutionize the grueling journey up the mountain of life. She combines the raw experience of her personal mental health battles with rock-solid biblical teaching to reveal the secrets of life-changing joy in the heavenward journey.

In a world dominated by stress, worry, depression, and fear, what does it take to generate joy and reclaim the life you were created to live? In this compelling and thought-provoking book, author Talasi Guerra addresses the joy crisis facing our culture today. Having struggled to personally reconcile the difficult experience of her day-to-day life with the biblical mandate to choose joy, Talasi explores the critical connection between joy and suffering and offers a profound view of how intentional joy can revolutionize the gruelling journey up the mountain of life. She combines the raw experience of her personal mental health battles with rock-solid biblical teaching to reveal the secrets of life-changing joy in the heavenward journey. Whether battling with depression, going through a slump, or simply navigating the mundane challenges of everyday life, Joy Like a Mountain will refresh your spirit through the power of the gospel and equip you with the tools you need to find freedom from bondage to circumstance-driven sadness and sorrow. As you trek through the pages of this book, you will discover: The Genesis - Where the journey of radical joy begins for all of us. The Goal - Our aim as we navigate the mountain of life. The Guarantee - How knowing the end of the story brings security here and now. The Guide - Who leads you up the mountain. The Gear - What equipment is needed to generate joy along the journey. The Guts - How to cultivate courage throughout the climb. The Grit - How choosing joy in suffering produces perseverance. The Glory - Everlasting joy in the presence of God. Joy Like a Mountain invites believers who sense an incongruence between the pain of their lived reality and the ecstasy of their promised salvation to discover the radical secrets of biblical joy on the journey of life. If you have ever found that choosing joy feels a little bit like climbing an impossible mountain, this book is for you. Don't wait. It's time to overcome the obstacles that hold you back and rise to new heights as you unleash revolutionary joy into the everyday moments of your life!

Embedded in the Bible is an underused handbook for moving step by step through real life with real joy. This is a guide to that journey. It will take you through each of the 15 steps from disappointment to rejoicing. Along the way you will discover how to follow God in family life, in church, at work, when people hurt you, when you need help, when you need a laugh, and more. The Psalms of Ascent were designed to make us happy pilgrims through the test of life without faking it and without failing it. Read this book and embark on a journey to joy.

Living with chronic illness can make life seem like a steep mountain climb. How do you find the strength to climb on and face each day with pain and suffering? Finding Joy on the Mountain Climb is a story of encouragement and hope, enriched with scripture and prayer. Written during a chronic illness battle, Arnold-Grine shares how a deep personal relationship with God helped her take One Step at a Time. She also includes 40 days of inspirational devotions from her health blog to help find purpose, peace and comfort in the battle. Discover how God will carry you through a struggle and equip you for the climb in her testimony: Every day with chronic illness I must take up my cross and follow where God leads me up this mountain. My hand is in His - the only way I want to travel this difficult journey. It has brought me to a deeper relationship with God, and through it I wish to share my story of hope and offer encouragement to others. The focus is not on the mountain climb, but on the Lord getting me to the “summit” to praise Him and finding joy in the journey by leaning heavily on Him. Inspired by Psalm 46:10 “Be still and know that I am God,” I take one step at a time with Him. It is within the battle that we find ourselves committed to what matters most. As I lean not on my own understanding, God offers peace and light to pave my pathway. He gives strength for the journey and carries me. Give me Jesus for the journey, and as I walk closely with Him, may He bless others through me. It is my prayer that this story encourages others to praise God on the mountain climb.

Winner of the 2020 Dashiell Hammett Award for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing Acclaimed author and "remarkably gifted storyteller" (The Charlotte Observer) David Joy returns with a fierce and tender tale of a father, an addict, a lawman, and the explosive events that come to unite them. When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail him out of trouble one last time. Frustrated by the slow pace and limitations of the law, Raymond decides to take matters into his own hands. After a workplace accident left him out of a job and in pain, Denny Rattler has spent years chasing his next high. He supports his habit through careful theft, following strict rules that keep him under the radar and out of jail. But when faced with opportunities too easy to resist, Denny makes two choices that change everything. For months, the DEA has been chasing the drug supply in the mountains to no avail, when a lead--just one word--sets one agent on a path to crack the case wide open . . . but he'll need help from the most unexpected quarter. As chance brings together these men from different sides of a relentless epidemic, each may come to find that his opportunity for redemption lies with the others.

Faith, Love, and the Joy of Living is a warm and moving collection of poems that will introduce readers to life and experiences of John J. Sidebotham. Focusing on the themes of religious faith, patriotism, life observations, and romantic love, each poem is an expression of Sidebothams devotion to God, country, family, and his wife of fifty-plus years. In this impressive debut, Sidebotham offers readers a glimpse into his life and a glance at long-cherished American values.

A compilation of 45 poems inspired by Mother Nature giving life lessons to discover Absolute Joy.

As interest in yoga continues to grow ever more broadly in the U.S., more and more Americans are trying out yoga and discovering its benefits. At the same time, millions of people who already practice yoga are finding that it can play many different roles in their life—from physical release to spiritual growth—and wonder how to unlock that potential fully. The Yoga Mind offers a bridge between yoga as a physical practice and yoga as a spiritual inquiry. A wide-ranging, considered investigation of the deep mind-body connection yoga promotes, it includes the best work of great yoga teachers and philosophers, as well as contemporary yoga teachers and practitioners who draw wisdom and insight from their practice. Selections include writings by Patanjali, B. K. S. Iyenger, Judith Lasater, Margot Anand, Stephen Cope, Geeta Iyengar, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Erich Schiffman, and many others. The Yoga Mind is for people who want to explore yoga's deepest potential to change and enhance their lives on the physical, emotional, and spiritual planes.