The novel, Awakening, by Patricia Hershey Owen, is a fact-filled sweeping story of love, loss and redemption through unexpected discoveries forever altering lives. Readers are invited to enter the pages and be transported into a world of timeless meaning. This storyline offers everyone a chair in the Micelli’s great room where readers can sit in anonymity beside the character they find freely expressing their own questions. Questions that actively involve a group of nine who search to find answers. Answers that basically twist and turn into more questions. This group is a cross-cultural experience of study which shows an understanding of differences in language, time and social mores; all which encourage us to see scriptures in fresh and unexpected ways.In 2003, random events brought this unrelated iconoclastic group to Knoll Hill from all over the world. In the book’s odd number chapters, a group of women with timeless life stories meet and choose to stay for a study of what the world has called, a powerful religious divide of scriptural understanding. The adventure, turmoil and suspense of each story is filled with intrigue as they bring their own set of questions about who God is. The heartbreaking, heartwarming thread running through the book’s even chapters is a dual story of a war-torn Europe during WWII. Enduring the heavy cost of survival a German family grapples to stay alive through the strength of their faith.Throughout the story the reader is brought into the confrontation and exultation of seeking God in multiple situations. As individuals in the study group begin to share deeply held secrets, they find themselves freed to ask their unasked questions. Author’s warning: The integrity of those questions will continue to disrupt a reader’s heart and mind long after the book is returned to a shelf.

Awakening

Literature & Fiction

Owen, Patricia Hershey

Genre Fiction

ISBN: 0953758206 Author: Shaykh Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah; Yusra al-Ghannouchi (translator) Publisher: Awakening Publications (2004) Pages: 86 Binding: Paperback Description from the publisher: The Value of Time is a collection of amazing sayings, anecdotes and wonderful stories of the scholars of the Muslim Ummah, which indicate the importance they attached to time. It is a book that will inspire the youth and the old alike to spend their time wisely, constructively and avoid wasting time. The storeis narrated, unimaginable as they may be, are not fables nor fairy tales, but are all authentic events that have been well documented and narrated by scholars themselves. The author, Shaykh Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah, was one of the prominent scholars of the 20th Century and a veteran leader of the Islamic Movement in Syria.The book provides a vivid insight into a subject of great importanceThe book highlights the value of time in the field of knowledge and its peoplePage: 11.Abu Yusuf Discussing a Matter of Fiqh on his Death BedAbu Yusuf became ill, so I went to visit him, and found him unconscious. When he regained consciousness he said to me: "O Ibrahim, what is your opinion on this matter?" I said to him: "While you are in this state?" He said: "That is fine, let us discuss it, perhaps one may be saved by it."Then he said: "O Ibrahim which is better in the casting of stones [during pilgrimage], to do so while walking or while mounted?" I said: "Mounted." He said: "Wrong." I said:" "Walking." He said "Wrong." I said: "Say your opinion, may Allah be pleased with you." He said: "As for the case where one stops where one should make supplication, then it is better to do so while walking, but if it is elsewhere then it is better while mounted." Then I left him, and as soon as I reached the door of his house, I head crying, and he died, may Allah have mercy on him.21

The Value of Time

Religion & Spirituality

Shaykh Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah

Islam

Belonging to Life" offers an invitation into the rapture of being alive — the joy of belonging to a greater process and the deep healing of being present in our own lives. Mary O'Malley explores ways to cultivate this by sharing stories, ideas and techniques that invite us into this wondrous place that we knew when we were very young.
For most of our existence we have lived in afterthoughts and projections, a dream laid over the magic, wonder and mystery of the living moment. What we truly desire is direct, intimate contact with life the moment that it appears out of Mystery, for this is the only place that is totally real, truly vibrant and completely alive. It holds all the love we dream of and is where we can again engage creatively with the awesome unfolding that is our lives. 
To know moments of opening out of fear and separateness into the fullness of life transforms our whole experience. We discover safety, joy, creativity, compassion for ourselves and others, and we rediscover the wholeness that we truly are and the greater process that we are part of.

Belonging to Life: The Journey of Awakening

Self-Help

O'Malley, Mary

Happiness

This book invites you on the most important journey you will ever take: the journey back to yourself and to a trust-filled connection with Life. On this journey, you will discover how to weave every part of yourself into your own heart so that you can know the joy of being fully here for Life. The book is filled with teachings, stories and exercises which will guide you every step of the way on this journey. It is a book to enjoy, to work with, and to keep by your favorite reading chair for times when you need to be reminded of its timeless truths.

What's In the Way IS the Way

Mary O'Malley

Parenting & Relationships

The Magical Forest of Aliveness is a wonderfully wise story which equips the inner child with metaphors to open the way for awakening to one's true nature. It's a sweet, simple, and wise poetic journey into human awakening that calms the mind, warms the heart, and speaks directly to the soul. A marvelous tale about the "stuff no one ever told us," but that would have changed our lives if they had.

The Magical Forest of Aliveness: A Tale of Awakening

Personal Transformation

The Awakening: Creating a New Way of Being

Research has shown books like The Awakening by Sage Walker can change people's lives as discussed in Marealisa Fabrega's Daring to Live Fully blog. A deeper soul connection, caring, and support can bring peace to the reader. Within these messages of spiritual wisdom are ways to see life differently and improve the quality of your relationships. Creating a new way of being is the power within these verses.Support and faith in you radiate from within Spirit's words. These messages are pathways to guide you in this change. They indicate a belief that you can move forward releasing old ways of thinking. The messages show you are cared for and help you see that you are important in ways you never considered before. They give you hope as they open you up to live a new life.The Awakening shows the darker places where we have been and the way out. The messages communicate caring and faith that you are able to improve your life. These verses are about growth and learning to love and accept all aspects of yourself as you are guided to a happier life. They ask you to find the best in yourself and others as you walk life's journey.Some of the messages talk about others in your life. Messages about nurses and other caregivers honor them and their service. In other passages, people whose names are not mentioned have also taught lessons. Messages about nature remind us to stop and look at the beauty.The Angelic messages remind you they are always there and ask you to call on them. They wish to bless and enhance your life as they help you move toward joy.All of these messages from the spiritual realm are gifts given to help you live your life to the fullest.

Sage Walker

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