Love Talk About It Sing About It Learn About It

Love: Talk About It, Sing About It, Learn About It, is a compilation of songs and poems which seek to explain the true element to true prosperity, happiness, and lasting relationships, which is love. The Poems and songs of this book are personal and generally uplifting as the writer reflects her respect and love for Jesus Christ, her family, and fellowmen. Love is the selfless, infinite gift of God, so powerful; it led Jesus to the Calvary to save a dying world. By reading this book, the reader will be able to reflect on Gods unchanging love for humanity. Allow the contents of this book to fill your heart with happiness and warmth, knowing that regardless of lifes circumstances, you are loved by God above, and although your brother offends you, you ought to love him still. But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, which those who love your name may rejoice in you. (Psalms 5:11)

What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their "leisure," reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers an authoritative and readable reference to the culture of sports and recreation in the American South, surveying the various activities in which southerners engage in their nonwork hours, as well as attitudes surrounding those activities. Seventy-four thematic essays explore activities from the familiar (porch sitting and fairs) to the essential (football and stock car racing) to the unusual (pool checkers and a sport called "fireballing"). In seventy-seven topical entries, contributors profile major sites associated with recreational activities (such as Dollywood, drive-ins, and the Appalachian Trail) and prominent sports figures (including Althea Gibson, Michael Jordan, Mia Hamm, and Hank Aaron). Taken together, the entries provide an engaging look at the ways southerners relax, pass time, celebrate, let loose, and have fun.

Offering wisdom and insights for applying biblical truths to our relationships, this book encourages couples to connect and communicate every day. This practical, uplifting guide is perfect for busy couples who long to experience a stronger relationship and better communication. Easy-to-follow daily readings focus on loving each other the way God loves us.

I take seriously what Ezra Pound said, "make poetry new." I do not want to write like anyone else, if that's possible. I want to create new forms of poetry. Sure, I have been influenced by many writers who write differently than I do, whether it is in style, theme, or topics, but I respect all forms and styles of poetry. I am experimenting all the time. Each time I write, it is as if it is my first time, like I have not done it before. The poem, and the way it is put together, becomes the object I am writing about as well as the subject. The way the poem is written is part of its meaning. All of it, I feel, comes from a deep and original, and yet common, place. I write to try to understand myself and the world and to question the things we just assume to be true, but mostly I write to remember the brightness of being alive.

New York Times Bestseller "There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it.” —Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women “Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart, and explosively engaged in the wonders and weirdness of the world. But what makes this memoir more than mere entertainment is the mature and sophisticated evolution that Alderton describes in these pages. It’s a beautifully told journey and a thoughtful, important book. I loved it.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and City of Girls The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else— realizing that you are enough. Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jones’ Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.

The stress of parenting is real. Many modern parents rely on parenting books or websites produced by experts. These focus on the practical challenges of parenting. This book takes a different perspective, a spiritual one, by inviting parents and potential parents to study God’s Word and draw out valuable lessons for parenting. There are six sections, each dealing with some key aspect of parenting from a biblical perspective: ● How we are parented by God to be good parents ● Parenting reflections from the Old Testament ● Parenting lessons from the New Testament ● Contemporary challenges parents face and how to handle them ● Insights from family counselling ● Drawing on God’s grace and resources for godly parenting. Dealt with in this book are parental anxieties and struggles born from the challenges of the hurried, complex, and confusing world we live in, our need for intimacy with God, the encouragement of biblical wisdom, and the hope that comes from the God who loves us as our heavenly Father.