Without a specific religion to provide structure and offer guidance, it is difficult to create a spiritual discipline much less practice one. Even those who go to church and synagogue appreciate suggestions as to how they can help their spirituality overlap with their everyday existence. Responding to this longing, Elizabeth Neeld offers a primer–packed with ideas and inspirational recommendations for creating stillness and soul-tending devotion in daily living. –Gail Hudson Amazon.com Editorial Review Neeld reveals some absolute gems of wisdom, gives encouragement when needed, understands every kind of skepticism, and ultimately leads the reader to a totally doable spiritual practice, all with a style that respects that which is sacred and that which is academic. Few books have bridged this gap so beautifully and as succinctly as this one. –NAPRA Review This thought-provoking book is worth taking to bed each night or using for morning devotions. –Dallas Morning News

A Sacred Primer: The Essential Guide to Quiet Time and Prayer

Religion & Spirituality

Neeld, Elizabeth Harper

Religious Studies

Centerpoint Press

On January 1, 2010, Elizabeth Neeld began to take a photo a day with her iPhone camera. She had been inspired to begin making a picture each day by designer Erik Kuntz s project of drawing a dog each day and posting that drawing on his Dog a Day Project website. About six weeks into Elizabeth s shooting a photo a day a stranger with whom she spoke at a lecture in Connecticut said she would be sending Elizabeth a gift that would arrive in her mailbox in a few days. That gift from Alice Parker was a copy of photographer Chase Jarvis book: The Best Camera Is The One That s With You. Jarvis collection of photographs all made with his iPhone camera inspired Elizabeth further. 
The result is this book, With Eyes Wide Open. 
The photographs in this collection include turtles, faucets, a piece of Van Gogh art made of 8000 living plants, roots, identical triplet baby boys, telephones, eating implements knives, forks, spoons, logs, legs sticking out of a building, an Italian demonstrator, fried green tomatoes, a performer on Austin City Limits stage, an old tin barn, a person with purple hair, a woven hanging of Elvis, leeks, and trees bending left in a west Texas wind. 
In her introduction to the book, Elizabeth writes: Beauty exists everywhere. Surprises abound. Light shines. With eyes wide open we all can participate. These photographs are her testament to the gift of the everyday.

With Eyes Wide Open: iPhone Photography

Arts & Photography

Elizabeth Harper Neeld

Photography & Video

A guide based on the full book Seven Choices: Finding Daylight after Loss Shatters Your world (Warner Books ISBN 0446690503) This Pocket Guide covers the seven clusters of experience common during loss. Contains author narrative, others' stories, and research on What's Normal, What to do that's Productive, and What is the Positive Choice for each of the seven different types of experiences faced during grief and loss. Contains a map of the active grieving process.

Seven Choices: A Pocket Guide: 30th Anniversary Edition

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Seven Choices: A Pocket Guide: Finding Daylight After Loss Shatters Your World

A book, a piece of Americana, that balances autobiography, religious testament, and social history. Harper'sstory is set within the context of his times and circumstances--theearly twentieth century in rural Georgia. Provides agricultural,social, and religious history on topics ranging from cotton farming inthe early 1900s and the traditions and attitude of rural and smalltown Georgians during this period. The book can be read for its vivid recounting of social, agricultural, and religious conditions from1908-1938. It can also be read as a participant's description of lifewithin the professional ministry of a large and growing holinessreligious denomination. Finally, it can be read as a story of mancommitted in his service to God.

From the plow to the pulpit: A spiritual autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

Tommie F. Harper

Leaders & Notable People

A story of family tragedy and of healing, healing that came through connection with the sea. Illustrated with nine full-pagephotorgraphs of the sea and its environs, this book brings hope andinsight where there could have been only pain and loss. Julie White,the author and a marine biologist, creates a whole through her lovefor the oceans and its aquatic and plant life from what had only beenfragments of broken lives.

When the heart has healed again: A memoir of tragedy and forgiveness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

White, Julie

Psychology & Counseling

By association, Texas and cowboys go together. But a cowboy nun? A nun living a contemplative lifein the midst of runninga thriving business? But this is the least of surprises. For thereis little that is ordinary about the life of this 72-year-old abbessof a cloistered monastery in Brenham, Texas, who drives a pick-uptruck, raises and trains world-class miniature horses, and plays amean blue saxophone--all the while providing spiritual and physicalsupport for the sisters under her care and carrying out her ownfull-time occupation of contemplative prayer. The life story of aremarkable woman meeting impossible tasks through her relationshipwith God, her own ingenuity, and the support of her community.

Sister Bernadette: Cowboy nun from Texas : the story of a woman challenged by God

Muller, Bernadette

Modern Foods: The Sabotage of Earth's Food Supply

Stone, Thomas

Casper, David

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