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![]() ![]() Sometimes we can put good things in place of God. What started out as a truly noble goal went terribly sideways in my life. Even when we everything goes to pieces, it’s still fundamentally ok because of Him. Yet when we’re 100% sold out for Jesus and only Him, we really can’t lose. They’re good! But, it’s the ferocity of our desires, our passions, and our pursuits that can get us into trouble, right? When what we love or want most in the world is something we can lose, our hearts and souls are in a precarious place. So often the things we’re after aren’t inherently bad. We can desire pretty much anything and get lost in the spinning pursuit of:īeing included in a certain group or clique Both driven by this sense of not having what they want so badly. Another talks non-stop about wanting to get married. What is the thing we’re chasing? ~ Jennie AllenĪ friend of mine spent about ten years absolutely obsessed with the goal of making a million dollars in a year in her business. We have to figure out what it is that we love more than God. ![]()
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Hlomu book series5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The Citizen’s Q&A with Abdul Khoza: Q: You play Nqoba in the popular Hlomu The Wife book series. ![]() The Wife starts streaming on 11 November on Showmax. The series follows the love story of Hlomu and Mqhele Zulu, and their trials and tribulations. There are eight of them and he says this role has been one of the most challenging for him. Khoza plays Nqoba, one of the more flamboyant Zulu brothers. Showmax has commissioned three seasons of 40 episodes of the book series from author Dudu Busani-Dube, which includes Hlomu the Wife, Zandile the Resolute and Naledi His Love. With just two days to go before the big release of the highly anticipated The Wife series on Showmax, actor Abdul Khoza, who plays one of the Zulu brothers – gave us more insight into his role on the show. ![]()
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Violation by Godfrey J. Anderiesz5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Recently, we have taken several actions to better serve the federal workforce. Known as FECA, this program adjudicates new claims for benefits, manages ongoing cases, pays medical expenses and compensation benefits to injured workers and survivors, and helps injured employees return to work when they are medically able to do so. ![]() One way my office, the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, assists federal employees is through our Federal Employees’ Compensation Program. More than 9,000 firefighters, many of whom help battle increasingly common large-scale wildfires Nearly 400,000 Department of Veterans Affairs workers who make sure veterans, their families and survivors receive the care and benefits they need More than half a million postal service workers who deliver mail to every address in the nation Did you know that there are more than 2 million federal civilian employees, including: This May 7-13 is Public Service Recognition Week, a time to thank those in public service for all that they do to serve their communities and our country. ![]()
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Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Troughlike flower beds, fed by the runoff from the roof gutters, surrounded the squat buildings like a moat. Missing sat on a verdant rise, the irregular cluster of whitewashed one- and two-story buildings looking as if they were pushed up from the ground in the same geologic rumble that created the Entoto Mountains. In the meadows around Missing the sedge won its battle over mud, and a brilliant carpet now swept right up to the paved threshold of the hospital, holding forth the promise of something more substantial than cricket, croquet, or shuttlecock. Over night, in that hushed silence, the meskel flowers bloomed, turning the hillsides of Addis Ababa into gold. When our mother, a nun of the Diocesan Carmelite Order of Madras, unexpectedly went into labor that September morning, the big rain in Ethiopia had ended, its rattle on the corrugated tin roofs of Missing ceasing abruptly like a chatterbox cut off in midsentence. The miracle of our birth took place in Missing Hospital's Operating Theater 3, the very room where our mother, Sister Mary Joseph Praise, spent most of her working hours, and in which she had been most fulfilled. We took our first breaths at an elevation of eight thousand feet in the thin air of Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia. ![]() After eight months spent in the obscurity of our mother's womb, my brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. ![]()
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Smooth talking stranger5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The reappearance of previous characters who are now exceptionally happy in their ever after? Oh yes. And other tropes that are familiar – the women who are instantly friends bonding across big personal issues? Yup. ![]() On the surface, among the bubbles, we have a secret baby. The prime candidate: millionaire playboy Jack Travis. Ella does so, and decides she has to find the baby’s father. Tara has had a baby, and left the days-old baby with their mother with no intentions of returning. They stay with you long after you thought they’d be gone.Įlla Varner is living in Austin with her boyfriend when she receives a call from her mother, Candy, a person who has abused and neglected her and her sister Tara. Those suds may look like bubbles, but they weigh fourteen tons. Kleypas takes the funny, frothy elements of contemporary romance, and imbues them with meaning, with importance, with real and visceral feelings that make the ultimate reading experience satisfying. And it looked without blinking at painful realities that women deal with, from new motherhood to surviving abusive parents to figuring out who you really are. It was a funny and enjoyably friendly and utterly sudsy fantasy. ![]() Reading Smooth Talking Stranger made me appreciate even more Lisa Kleypas’ skill and talent in writing romances that feature familiar themes with memorable, unique characters. ![]()
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Radiant cynthia hand5/10/2023 ![]() Please see our About Us page for more details. ![]() ![]() Safe distance to ensure they receive their gift. ![]() Recipient is available to accept, their gift will be left at the door and the delivery driver will step back a Were there boys there she asked, even though she already knew the. In addition, we may be using “no contact” delivery procedures. Radiant (Unearthly 2.5)(6) Author: Cynthia Hand. From as far back as she can remember, she loved books and reading, and wrote her first short story (about a fairy being born in a tulip) when she was around six years oldpretty much as soon as she could write.
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Dean r koontz devoted5/10/2023 ![]() Two sisters discover a shocking mystery when they return home to find their family dead in their village. When the Indians realize this death cannot be explained by an outbreak, they (along with the reader) almost refuse to comprehend the truth. The corpses they found appear to have died of sickness since they were swollen and still warm to the touch. To begin, you will discover 150 dead bodies and 350 missing persons. Stephen King is a big fan of the inventive thriller about a hill city with some terrifying secrets. Let’s start with one of Dean Koontz’s best books. Here is a list of the best Dean Koontz books ranked that Penn Book recommended for you to choose from: Phantoms (1983) Koontz’s command of these various genres and their components makes his book incredibly challenging to put down. The majority of books by Dean Koontz are a blend of terror and psychological thrillers, with a flavor of speculative fiction. Having published over a hundred books, Koontz is considered an expert in mixing different genres. shippingĭean Koontz is a legend in sci-fi, fantasy mysteries, and thrillers. ![]()
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Magic septimus heap5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Her inventive fantasy is filled with humor and heart: Magyk will have readers laughing and begging for more. But who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to their beloved son, Septimus? The first part of this enthralling new series leads readers on a fantastic journey filled with quirky characters, clever charms, potions and spells, and a yearning to uncover the mystery at the heart of this story…who is Septimus Heap? Angie Sage writes in the tradition of great British storytellers. The Heaps take this helpless newborn into their home, name her Jenna, and raise her as their own. That same night, the baby’s father, Silas Heap, comes across a bundle in the snow containing a newborn girl with violet eyes. The 7th son of the 7th son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he is born by a midwife who pronounces him dead. The first part of an enthralling new series leads readers on a fantastic journey filled with quirky characters, clever charms, potions and spells. You can read this before Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1) written by Angie Sage which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1) by Angie Sage ![]()
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![]() By contrast, Notker's account, written some decades after Charlemagne's death, is a collection of anecdotes rather than a presentation of historical facts. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts one of the defining moments in European history: Charlemagne's coronation as emperor in Rome on Christmas Day 800AD. ![]() While the veracity of events presented here may be questionable (the purpose of 'history' and 'biography' in the present is very different from 1300 years ago), they do provide an excellent sense of Charlemagnes time - which is. Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. The second account (Notkers) details the religious life of Charlemagne, placing him in an almost 'saintly' light. Translation of Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni imperatoris and of Notker's Gesta Karoli Magni as published in 1867 in v. BIC Classification: 1DDF 3F BGH HBJD HBLC. 888), says that Clement with his unnamed companion, both 'Scots of Ireland' 1 travelling in the company of traders, arrived on the coast of Gaul 'in the moment when Charlemagne had begun to reign as sole king' (i.e. ![]() ![]() It describes his personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts one of the defining moments in European history: Charlemagne's coronation as emperor in Rome on Christmas Day 800 AD. Gall, usually identified as Notker the Stammerer, who wrote a Life of Charlemagne dedicated to Charles the Fat (d. A chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, Charlemagne. Description for Two Lives of Charlemagne Paperback. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But beneath the façade of the confident performer, Bassey's mental health was in a precipitous decline, culminating in a breakdown that resulted in hospitalization and a diagnosis of Bipolar II. By the time she was in her early '20s, Bassey was a spoken word artist and traveling with HBO's Def Poetry Jam, channeling her life into art. "We will not think or talk about mental health or normalcy the same after reading this momentous art object moonlighting as a colossal collection of essays.” (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy)įrom her early childhood in Nigeria through her adolescence in Oklahoma, Bassey Ikpi lived with a tumult of emotions, cycling between extreme euphoria and deep depression - sometimes within the course of a single day. ![]()
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