Was That All There Was

This book is a sequel to the book Was That All There Was?

Praised by the New York Times Book Review as “fascinating, suspenseful, careful, musically detailed, and insightful,” this is a long-overdue biography of recording artist and musical legend Peggy Lee. Miss Peggy Lee cast a spell when she sang. She epitomized cool, but her trademark song, “Fever”—covered by Beyoncé and Madonna—is the essence of sizzling sexual heat. Her jazz sense dazzled Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong. She was the voice of swing, the voice of blues, and she provided four of the voices for Walt Disney’s Lady and the Tramp, whose score she co-wrote. But who was the woman behind the Mona Lisa smile? With elegant writing and impeccable research, including interviews with hundreds who knew Lee, acclaimed music journalist James Gavin offers the most revealing look yet at an artist of infinite contradictions and layers. Lee was a North Dakota prairie girl who became a temptress of enduring mystique. She was a singer-songwriter before the term existed. Lee “had incredible confidence onstage,” observed the Godfather of Punk, Iggy Pop; yet inner turmoil wracked her. She spun a romantic nirvana in her songs, but couldn’t sustain one in reality. As she passed middle age, Lee dwelled increasingly in a bizarre dreamland. She died in 2002 at the age of eighty-one, but the enchantment with Lee has only grown. “Raucously entertaining [and] full of evocative scenes, wry humor and exasperated sympathy” (Publishers Weekly), Is That All There Is? paints a masterful portrait of an artist who redefined popular singing.

'If we focus on the meaning and purpose of our lives, we might acquire a better way of living.' In this insightful book, Julia Neuberger considers what it is that makes life worthwhile. Drawing upon her considerable experience as a religious leader and social reformer, passionately concerned with the issues that affect society's wellbeing, she offers practical ways to give our own lives a renewed sense of significance and direction. From celebrating friends and family, to surviving hardship and loss, to assessing the relative value of possessions, and the benefits of being as tough as we are kind to ourselves, Julia Neuberger shows how to reconnect with the things in life that really matter to us. It is, she explains, possible to live a life with few regrets, in which we get our priorities right and create a legacy which will live on long after we are gone - yet which will make life all the more rewarding here and now.

This book came about because I knew people who were just like me. They really did not know the scriptures or how to apply them to their life today. I started going to a church where they emphasized the scriptures and used them in sermons for today's time. I asked my Heavenly Father, "Is this all there is?" (meaning going to church, and just praying). Hearing the scriptures preached for our today times made a difference for me. The pastor taught some oriental customs of that time. I took a lot of notes during church. Suddenly I started understanding and learning and it was exciting! About 50 years ago, I asked God why He didn't communicate with us like he did with the saints back in the Old Testament? I asked Him why he didn't do miracles anymore? He answered me a few years later. He does still communicate with us and He does still do miracles. Read my testimonies in Part II of this book. God is so awesome!

2020 Catholic Press Association second place award for English translation edition Is the Christian hope for resurrection still alive or has it become tired? How can we talk about the Resurrection today? Gerhard Lohfink takes up the question of death and resurrection in this new book. He argues against the dazzling array of today's ideas and expectations and seeks his answers in Scripture, the Christian tradition, and human reason. With his characteristically gentle but clear language, he reveals the power of Christian resurrection, showing it is not about events that lie in the distant future but rather occurrences incomprehensively close to us. They were long since begun and they will embrace us fully in our own death..

ARE YOU TIRED OF PUTTING YOURSELF LAST? Women have been socialized to put the well-being of others first. The belief that we need to be there for everyone but ourselves can and does wreak havoc on our health and well-being and can make us lose touch with what actually excites and fulfils us. Feeling somewhat empty and directionless, we may be wondering, “Is this all there is?” In Is This All There Is? Living a Life Beyond Obligation, readers are introduced to a powerful tool known as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), or tapping. EFT is a form of acupressure that allows us to access and dissolve the subconscious beliefs that often prevent us from experiencing a life of greater potential, joy and well-being. EFT will provide you with the freedom to choose how you want to take control of your life. Is This All There Is? Living a Life Beyond Obligation will help you to: • Become emotionally free from thoughts and beliefs that have sabotaged your joy • Become more attuned to what you really want • Follow your heart and own your greatness • Understand your body as an energetic system, not just a physical one • Transform limiting beliefs into empowered beliefs through Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Featuring real life stories from women who have taken control of their futures with EFT, Is This All There Is? Living a Life Beyond Obligation offers resources and analysis to provide enhanced belief of possibility to women who are tired of living unfulfilling lives dedicated to everyone but themselves.

Lost in a maze of busyness? Does every day seem to lead from one form of stress into another more complicated set? Do you ever find yourself asking, “Is this all there is to life?” Ray Stedman empathizes. In his book Is This All There is To Life?, on the book of Ecclesiastes, you’ll discover, as King Solomon did, how to put the day-to-day drudgery into biblical perspective and find your way out of the maze and into God’s promised peace.

God Is All There Is and The Devil Does Not Exist seeks to bring about awareness and remind us of Who We Really Are; for God is All There Is and there is No-thing else. There is only One-Consciousness that has individuated It-self and, thusly, there is no Devil in absolute form (as is taught and projected by many). All That Is, existed in a state of being, without the means to express Its being; in a state of being, God is No-thing unto Himself. Out of this conceptual knowing, God/All That Is longed to express, explore and experience It-self for what It knows It-self to be. And so the No-Thing created Some-Thing/Some-Form (all of creation), as a means or device(s), through which It can express, explore and experience It-self fully and abundantly. We live in a world driven by fear, scarcity, competition, chaos, pain, struggle, confusion and discord. It is my firm conviction that all these factors have been born and taken root because we have forgotten, Who We Really Are. God Is All There Is and The Devil Does Not Exist is directed to all the men and women around the globe, who are entangled in shackles of fear, constructed by mythical beliefs and teachings about God and the mock Devil, which have been served to us for eons. The message I bring seeks to liberate and unchain us from these restraints. "So that we can live freely and express, explore and experience That Which Is within more fully and abundantly."