The Godfile

How to enhance your personal prayer relationship with God, making it more unique fulfilling

Fresh, Useful Perspectives on the Spiritual Dynamics of Prayer Better music, better sermons and better prayer books can only go so far. Many innovations have been tried around the world, and no doubt, synagogue leadership will continue to think creatively about improving services. But deep and lasting change will only come when each of us takes ownership and responsibility for what only we can really guideour inner lives. from the Preface Join over fifty Jewish spiritual leaders from all denominations in a candid conversation about the why and how of prayer: how prayer changes us and how to discern a response from God. In this fascinating forum, they share the challenges of prayer, what it means to pray, how to develop your own personal prayer voice, and how to rediscover meaning and Gods presence in the traditional Jewish prayer book.

This bold revisioning of education recalibrates the focus of teaching from acquiring knowledge to transforming the soul. If presents six steps to help educators of all kinds teach to the heart, engage students in knowledge gathering without preaching or controlling, and enable students to personally integrate Jewish wisdom into their lives.

Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers, and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S. Sledge. The collection includes more than one hundred of the best pieces culled from Sledge’s total output of approximately seven hundred columns. Numerous classic authors are celebrated in these pages, including Homer, Plato, Gibbon, Melville, Proust, Conrad, Cather, and Steinbeck as well as modern writers such as Walter Edgar, Tom Franklin, and Eugene Walter. While some of the essays are relatively straightforward book reviews, others present meditative and deeply personal perspectives on the author’s literary experiences such as serving on the jury in the play version To Kill a Mockingbird; spending the night alone in a Jesuit college library’s venerable stacks; rambling through funky New Orleans bookshops; talking to Square Books owner Richard Howarth while overlooking the Oxford, Mississippi courthouse; rereading Treasure Island on the shores of Mobile Bay; and remembering a beloved father’s favorite books. Engaging and spirited, Southern Bound represents the critical art at its most accessible and will prove entertaining fare for anyone who loves the written word.

For two young men growing up in the streets, Central City was no fairytale but fate had definite plans for them. Anarchy and mitigating circumstances expose their lives as a flimsy smoke screen that fell apart and shattered them into an unimaginable reality. Now they’re at different ends of the spectrum but tied by murder and the secrets kept by a street pimp and a skin merchant that once revealed will ignite fury and cause explosive consequences, pitting them against each other with devastating effects in an undesirable haven of whores and drugs where there’s no turning back once set in motion. For one of them the fantasy is real. She even has a name but can he share it with a man that means to have the fantasy and her with or without his sanction.

Gabriel Black finds himself sentenced to prison for life without the possibility of parole for a murder he did not commit. In a twisted expression of honor, he takes responsibility for the action of a woman he loves and pays for it with his freedom.One day in the prison library Gabriel reads about a man with a wonderful family and a successful career who finds that he has been cured of cancerthus proving, the author says, the existence of God. Gabriel is unmoved. A truer test of Gods existence would be to find proof of Him in a disgusting corner of the world like prison, without hope, surrounded by violence, hatred, and indifference.Gabriel starts a file where he can store any evidence of the divine he comes across no matter how unseemly. In brutal, honest language, The God File recounts the dark comedy of one mans search for meaning.

Synopsis for Lilly White The God File Crystal Ripples in a mirror that shows the past & future, an Ancient Nameless book, Zai an entity from another realm hell bent on getting his Trinket back, Taradiddles from the grave of a dead woman, two eccentric brothers, and a torrid rectangled affair, are only some of the dilemmas that a shy introverted abused young woman named Colija James will be faced with when she is literally sold to Renfield Cain for 5 years. Riddled with conflict and heartache Colija finds out about her odd ancestry and the mother she never knew, then there’s her Bizarre connection to Lilly White and the power of the God File.