All is Well, Even Though. . .
A Devotional for When the
Little and Big Challenges Come
In the Middle of a Hard Challenge? Need to keep your heart, mind and soul focused on The One Fighting the Battle for you? Needing to live an “All is Well” faith when all doesn’t look well from where you are standing? If you need a minute to lose yourself in God’s kind of grace to help take your eyes off The Challenge and focus instead on God, then All is Well, Even Though. . . offers a daily refreshing minute to help you refocus, restrengthen, refresh your heart in The Hard Challenge. All is Well, Even Though . . . even though the figurative wolf comes, though the fever comes, though the storm comes, though the self-doubt comes. All is Well, Even Though. . . because God is there.
Children’s Books
If there was a crocodile under your children’s beds, who would you call first? Would it be God? A Crocodile Under the Bed is a zany story of the nuisance under the beds of boys, who have no idea of the fear in their Mom’s heart of possible threats imposed on her family, and her journey to “speak faith at the happy ending”. A beautiful lesson of faith in God’s will and God’s promise surely to engage the entire family.
Pedal, pedal, pedaling, slurp, slurp, slurping, and a big mmmmoooooo are all a part of the delightful day’s adventure when bicycling with sweet Ava. Written in beautiful prose reminiscent of a true storyteller, Bicycling with Ava is a whimsical journey that will endear the nurturing spirit of a Grandma, and cherished moments of the simplest of kind to young and old readers alike.
At some time in every little boy’s life, he begins to question his place in his corner of the world. For some, a parent’s light-hearted attempt at an answer will suffice. Other boys may search for an in-depth dialogue, and, then, there are those who perhaps need a little extra guidance to truly connect the dots. Time for Finding Wind Whooos provides the framework for all these conversations in a delightful journey through nature, as a little boy wind witnesses the cause and effect of the power he can unleash in his own world. Humor, love and introspection are all rolled upinto one delightful story.
“Listen and hear, watch and see, what the wild winds of the world be . . .” Join in the Where the Wild Winds Blow: Spring and Summer adventures of a little boy wind as he ponders little boy thoughts of the effects of wind on Spring and Summer. From the twirling, whirling, swirling of early Spring, to gentle rains and thunder to a fun-filled day at the beach, the reader is taken on a spectacular journey of boyhood through a mother’s eyes, as he joins her for a Going-to-Work-with-Mom Day. Sweetly, nature at its best.
From windfalls of seeds spreading over the earth to great gusty cloud bales rolling through the sky, this book is a delightful celebration of not only a father teaching his son about his job, but the effects of wind on Fall and Winter. Deliciously visual prose will Where the Wild Winds Blow: Fall and Winter sweep you up in nature’s chaos of Fall, through to the gentleness of a winter snow all on a Going-to-Work-with-Dad-Day.
Communication in the form is language is sometimes hard for many of us. But the unspoken language of facial expressions and body language, well, that can be super challenging for us all.
I Didn’t Cause that Frown is a tool to help children and adults understand the complexities of someone’s expressions; they may think they know what is being communicated, those cues from others are often not quite so clear.
This book takes one through an ordinary school day, and guides the reader to learn how to respond to frowny, angry and sad faces with a clearer understanding of their peers’ expressions. This interesting school day reveals to the reader that although your friend has a frown, or a sad face, that doesn’t necessarily mean it has anything to do with you.