Prison Dreams Do Come True

This book gives readers on the street a glimpse of what being in love and in prison is like. Inmates, use this book as an example of how you should be to your girlfriend/wife. Or use these poems as inspiration for your letters/poems. This book is an example of true love in its purest form. A comprehensive collection of heart touching poetry written by a prisoner to his beloved one on the outside. The lingering pain of their separation and the strength of their true love is a must read for all that love romance at it best and true state.

How would you like to be in a lifelong marriage to the same person and desire being with each other after many years as much as when you were first married? It is possible. Through this book you will learn scriptural keys to build this kind of lasting marriage that is a dream come true. As you read this book you will find practical insights from the Word of God and build understanding about essential factors to grow a strong, intimate relationship. Topics include: - Making a communication connection - How praying together helps you stay together - How submission creates equality and successful leadership in the home - How to overcome temptations - Building a vision together and much more! Shaun and Amy Gustafson are Senior Pastors and founders of Word of Life Christian Center in Rochester, Minnesota, a growing and thriving body of believers from various walks of life. They have a passion for empowering people to apply truths from God's Word to bring success to their everyday life. Pastors Shaun and Amy have taught marriage conferences at denominational and non-denominational churches around the country. They have a heart for building unity among churches and reaching people with Christ's love. Visit Word of Life's website at: www.wolrochester.org

Wake Up Black People: Are Our Communities in Peril? (Dreams Do Come True!) By: DeVere O. Kelley Why are so many of us Black Americans afraid to accept the blame for our own peril? Yes, we have been victims of systemic racism, poverty, wealth inequality, and police violence, but we have also caught ourselves in patterns which contribute to our demise. This book examines the history of not only the societal issues and stereotypes that have plagued our community for decades, but also the self-imposed burdens that continue to hold us back. Black homicide, drug usage, welfare, decrease in life expectancy, black incarceration and health problems are just a few issues covered in this thorough debut work by DeVere O. Kelley. Drawing from his own experiences and from the patterns of history, Kelley offers remedies for the obstacles still facing the Black community.

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) once said, “In the hectic pace of the world today there is not enough time for meditation or for deep thought. A prisoner has time that he can put to good use. I’d put prison second to college as the best place for a man to go if he needs to do something. If he’s motivated, in prison he can change his life.” Strong blood flows through my veins. It is the blood of my ancestors, which sustains me. They persevered through capture and enslavement, and they triumphed even as they lay in the filthy hatches of slave ships. My ancestors survived the “Middle Passage” and the auction blocks. One of my favorite female authors, Elwidge Danticat, once wrote in her book, The Farming of Bones, “The dead who have no more use for words leave them as an inheritance for their children.” This book is for my great grandparents, Arthur and Minnie Taylor; my grandparents Arlen and Emily Whaley; and my parents Lenel Whaley and Walton Stockton. The words of this book are my own. But they originated in the blood of the people who came before me; my family gave these words to me.

Jimmy hasn't seen his father in nine years. But one day he comes back -- on the run from the law. Together, the two of them travel across the country -- where Jimmy's dad will find the man who can exonerate him of the crime for which he was convicted. Along the way, Jimmy discovers a lot about his father and himself -- and that while things can't always be fixed, sometimes they can be understood and forgiven.

Developed for work with individuals in detention or incarceration, this user-friendly therapeutic card set is effective and clinically powerful. Clients, themselves, choose cards from the therapeutic deck. The set includes 37 cards, which direct, and assist the client, in opening up about difficult topics. Questions lead the clinician in exploring the roots of the clients' issues, as well as their impact, in the deeper levels of the mind, body and spirit. Each card addresses a specific issue, containing a DIRECTIVE (discussion prompt) on one side, and a TASK (what the client is to learn/change as a result) on the other. Cards are typically used by having clients read and address the DIRECTIVE in group or individual sessions. This then leads to clinical discussion about the issue prompted by the card. Each issue is related to a particular facet of treatment, and expected to provide the client with insight or coping skills to achieve therapeutic progress, in their area of treatment. After processing the therapeutic prompt, clients can read the TASK, which explains how their DIRECTIVE connected to treatment. A Manual is included with the set. The manual explains the theory and etiology of each Therapy Card topic from a client-centered systems approach. This information is very approachable and can be used to psychoeducate clients about the issues they are experiencing. The manual also gives step-by-step instruction in how to use the Therapy Cards during session, ways to present the cards, and how to integrate the cards into treatment. The manual provides content for each card that can be used by the therapist as follow-up information for clients, making Therapy Cards a truly out-of-the-box product that can be used by any clinician. Clinicians appreciate Therapy Cards because they help establish therapeutic rapport, create positive associations with processing therapeutic issues, and help clients make progress in treatment. At the end, clinicians can list the goal given on each card in the therapy notes for each client, to document the clinical intervention used. Therapy Cards can be used in individual, group, or family settings. Prison Therapy Cards cover the topics: • Relationships • Interpersonal Skills • Re-integrating Into Society • Managing Aggression • Decision Making • Managing Anxiety • Accountability

In the High Middle Ages, the dream narrative was an enormously popular and influential form. Along with the romance, it was perhaps the genre of the age. It has come down to us in such classics twelfth to fourteenth-century classics as The Divine Comedy, the Romance of the Rose, Piers Plowman, Chaucer's early poetry, and the works of Guillaume de Machaut. This book redefines the dream vision by attending to its role in philosophical debate of the time, a conservative role in defense of the high medieval synthesis of reason and revelation. Lynch shows how the epistemological basis of this synthesis and the theories of visions that emerged from it drew on Arabic commentaries of Aristotle. These theories informed poetic visions modeled on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, a work she discusses in detail before turning to Alain de Lille, Jean de Meun, and Dante. A final section, on John Gower's Confessio Amantis shows how fourteenth and fifteenth-century writers extended and finally moved beyond the conventional form of the dream vision.

The BIBLE IN A NUTSHELL DAILY DEVOTIONAL VERSION gives you a concise and simple way of imprinting in your heart and mind key Bible verses and passages on a daily basis. The 365 readings will take you on an annual journey through all 66 books of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Included are introductions to each Bible book, 1000 favorite memory verses, and a prayer relevant to each day's study. Introductory pages provide additional study helps: Bible events in a nutshell, key Bible passages, key Bible stories, Jesus' parables, Jesus' miracles, where to look in the Bible during times of need, and Bible prophecies that foretold Jesus' coming. Enjoy your travels through God's marvelous Word!