When Life Throws You A Curve

When Elizabeth Golden, a typical 13-year-old student who enjoyed hanging out with friends, playing sports and laughing out loud, was diagnosed with Scoliosis and faced major surgery, she was understandably apprehensive about her future. There was one thing, however, that Elizabeth was quite sure of -- that there would always be others facing similar challenges, and they could benefit by knowing she shared their pain, fear, uncertainty, joy and triumphs. Out of her journal was born When Life Throws You a Curve: One Girl's Triumph Over Scoliosis.

If life has tossed you a curveball, this book was written with you in mind. It is my sincere hope that you will find the following stories and concepts helpful. Whatever you do, don't despair and don't give up. Simply keep reading, keep your spirits up, and above all, keep swinging. Your persistence and your courage will be rewarded.

These practical sports analogies are applicable to many everyday situations. Daugherty shows readers how to reach their destiny and how to help others reach theirs by developing a winning attitude.

Looking for a fun and colorful motivational journal? This positive quote journal was designed to motivate and inspire you to reach your goals. On the front is the quote "Life Will Always Throw You Curve Balls - It's Your Job to Swing The Bat." Bursting with shades of green, orange and yellow on the front, blue pink and purple on the back this pretty journal is ready to capture all you writing, notes and inspiration. 6 x 9 inch lined notebook with a soft high quality matt cover Filled with 120 pages (60 sheets) of bright white lined paper Perfect for story writing, poetry, journaling, note taking and more You can enjoy the therapeutic value of journaling while you record your thoughts, feelings and memories Or use this fun notebook as your daily diary Great for charting and planning tasks, personal goals and your dreams for the future Other uses include: gratitude journal, fitness journal, food journal, idea journal, reading journal, project journal, poetry journal, prayer journal, travel journal, and the list goes on Add this pretty and positive notebook to your cart now or save it to your wish list for later. A great motivational journal for women under $10 Don't forget to check out the other fun journal and notebook designs by this author.

Life seemed idyllic for thirty-two-year-old Liz Holzemer. Wife of Major League Baseball pitcher Mark Holzemer, Liz was enjoying a successful career as a journalist when an MRI revealed a baseball-size brain tumor she soon found out was called meningioma. Told with clarity and unwavering humor, this book is an inspirational and informative account of one woman's battle for her life. It shows how she emerged from this frightening diagnosis and two brain surgeries retaining her remarkable spirit of survival and renewed sense of purpose and hope. With practical information about meningioma and brain surgery, Curveball is a manual for people who face life-altering challenges and is also proof that one need not fight such battles alone.

Life is beautiful. Yet despite its beauty and wonders, there are moments when you really have to struggle to survive. So what do you do When Life Throws You a Curve? Maretta Patrick shares a touching tale. Sarah had the perfect childhood. Her days are spent playing with her siblings in the yard, or helping her mother with the chores. As a child, she is showered with her mother's tenderness and her father's care. Her life changes when she marries a month before her high school graduation. She is in love. But hers is not the perfect marriage. Her life as an adult in the real world appears to be very different from her ideal childhood. As she braves this new world with its complications, she faces medical issues and deals with an untimely death of a loved one. All these circumstances lead her to finding herself and finding God. Heart-wrenching, yet inspiring, this is a true story of a woman who sees beauty in life's sweet or bitter moments as she turns to God, and discovers exactly what to do When Life Throws You a Curve.

When the cares of life tries to strike us out, we can hit a home run and get back in the game of life and win with every blow. As you read this book, you won’t want to miss a single chapter of how the swings in this game of life is played out in this book to see how you can hit a home run and win every time with Christ! He is, after all, the empire of our souls.

At times when I was so sick I wondered if God had forsaken me, and that the prayers were not getting through. That was when I felt like Job, but like Job, I was determined to continue to trust. "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him." If I renounced my faith, turned my back on God, where else could I go? I also remembered the passage in John's Gospel: "After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him. Jesus said to the twelve, 'Will you also go away?' Simon Peter answered him, 'Where shall we go? You have the words of eternal life; so we have believed and have come to know you, that you are the Holy One of God.'" So my faith has remained intact throughout this ordeal.