Spiritual Guidance For Daily Life Sermons By Dietrich F Seidel

This volume contains sermons by Dr. Dietrich F. Seidel, theologian and marriage and family counselor. Although raised Catholic and a convert to Unificationism, Dr. Seidel's insights are not limited to a particular religion but rather focus on bringing God into our daily lives. The reader will find here valuable spiritual guidance that can inform, inspire, and enlighten us all as to how to make our daily lives more meaningful, more successful, more loving, and closer to GodÕs original ideal for humankind.

A memoir of Elisabeth Seidel's life, including stories from her childhood in the French Alps, her search for a better life, finding the Unification Church, and meeting her husband with whom she spent forty years on this earth experiencing the true love of God. These stories of Elisabeth's life include journal entries, reflections, prayers, reports, letters and poems. There is beauty in all her writings. There are also deep insights into God's providence and how the love of God reaches each person here on earth and in the eternal realm.

"Stories to Nourish the Heart" is a compilation of the reflections that Elisabeth Seidel wrote for her blog during the period following the spring of 2018 until the end of 2021. They are insights from her life, a life of faith and service to others, to those she has embraced as her extended family, her "tribe." This family is not limited to her hometown (and in fact she counts several places as her hometown), to her native country, to her husband's native country, to the country of her children's birth, or to her adopted country of America; Elisabeth's heart embraces people the world over as God's children, children of our one Heavenly Parent. Here she shares life experiences that have nourished her heart.

"Extraordinarily timely and useful. As China emerges as an economic and political world power that seems to have done away with religion, in fact it is witnessing a religious revival. The thoughtful essays in this book show both the historical conflicts between state authorities and religious movements and the contemporary encounters that are shaping China's future. I am aware of no other book that covers so much ground and can be used so well as an introduction to this important field." —Peter van der Veer, University of Utrecht

This volume is in the form of letters, written in English by Dietrich Seidel (whose native language is German) and his wife Elisabeth (whose native language is French) during various periods over the course of their four decades of married life when they were separated from each other. Many are pure love letters, while others include practical matters of concern while their spouse was far away. The final entry is a letter written by Elisabeth to her beloved Dietrich after he transitioned into the next world.

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