Discover One Man's Journey Through the Devastating Loss of His Son - An Inspiring Story of Survival, Coping, and Healing. Whenever a tragedy enters your life, you feel helpless, stricken with grief. Nothing is the same; days are filled with pain and sadness. The only thing you wish is for the pain to go away and for things to go back to how they were. You mourn the loss of a loved one; you struggle to make sense of it and face the challenge of putting your life back together. But sometimes, the sorrow and pain become unbearable, and you find yourself falling into a void and hitting rock bottom. However, when you get knocked down, you have to get up and gather the strength to set yourself on a path of healing. Follow the story of Dimas, a father who lost his son to brain cancer. Dimas was a semi-professional basketball player, who also pursued an acting career as an extra on HBO. Pain and sadness entered his life when he first received the horrible news, but he was still filled with hope. He dropped everything to save his son's life, but unfortunately, his son lost his battle. Dimas lost all hope, which threw him into a deep, dark hole for years until he gathered the strength to pull himself out. This memoir is not just a story about loss. It's about the process of going through it-a story about surviving the storm of pain and healing. Accompany Dimas on his heartfelt journey through unknown territory filled with pain, loss, and confusion. Follow him on his path of revelation and realization to discover how to get himself out of the void. "No footprint is too small to leave an impact on this world." - Dimas Cintron

Imagine sitting in the cockpit of a jet fighter descending to the rolling, moving flight deck of a super carrier at sea. You have 600 feet of flight deck to thread the eye of the needle and land safely. Ten thousand times ten thousand this dangerous drama has been repeated in the history of American carrier aviation. It is simply extraordinary. This drama at sea if viewed through the proper lens can have great spiritual significance for your life. Imagine that the flight deck represents your safe haven in life, the place you return to again and again for meaning and stability. The flight deck is also the catapult for every new mission in life but here's the hook; God script for your life written by His own hand is better than any script you could write for yourself. Without God's script engaging your life, the bolters and wave-offs in your life's vocation will be frequent and the safe traps upon His flight deck few. For me to say to you, "Choose God's script," is far too simple and simplistic. Discovering God's script for your life is much more complex and often counterintuitive against the powers of human reasoning. Nevertheless, it is only His script for your life that will lead you through the eye of the needle to reach the blessed end of God's script for your dreams. Life, your life, is a great drama. Take the chance and live without God's script and you will bolter again and again with the imminent danger of ditching your plane into the angry sea. God alone threads the needle reframing your life until He brings you safely aboard His celestial flight deck turning every ordinary life into something truly extraordinary. I have written this little book from my heart to yours via real life vignettes spread across the spectrum of my own ordinary life demonstrating that the grace of God is alive, active and at work. If God above can touch my ordinary life with His extraordinary grace as I wander about in the midst of eight billion souls strolling across planet earth and keep me on the narrow path of His vocation chosen for me, will He not do the same for you? Most certainly true. You're approaching the flight deck. Flaps down. Tailhook down. Call the Ball! Trapped! You have safely landed on the celestial flight deck of God's grace ready for a new extraordinary mission in your ordinary life. Discover God's script for you. To God be all the glory.

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Winner of the 2014 Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy, from the author of Plain Kate. At the very edge of the world live the Shadowed People. And with them live the dead.There, in the village of Westmost, Otter is born to power. She is the proud daughter of Willow, the greatest binder of the dead in generations. It will be Otter's job someday to tie the knots of the ward, the only thing that keeps the living safe.Kestrel is training to be a ranger, one of the brave women who venture into the forest to gather whatever the Shadowed People can't live without and to fight off whatever dark threat might slip through the ward's defenses.And Cricket wants to be a storyteller -- already he shows the knack, the ear -- and already he knows dangerous secrets. But something is very wrong at the edge of the world. Willow's power seems to be turning inside out. The ward is in danger of falling. And lurking in the shadows, hungry, is a White Hand, the most dangerous of the dead, whose very touch means madness, and worse.Suspenseful, eerie, and beautifully imagined.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.