The Gratitude Journal for Women of Faith makes a perfect gift idea. And, it's already personalized with her name. This beautiful journal will give her a place to express her gratitude for what God has given her. There are enough pages for 90 days/3 months. Interspersed between the pages are inspirational thoughts and bible verses. Buy one for a friend, family member or coworker. And don't forget to buy one for yourself. We lots of names already, with more coming. To see more, just click on our name, Women of Faith Studio, under the title.

A Must Read! Electrifying Journey! This is a story about God accepting ordinary people for who they are, and where they are in life. Monae “Peaches” Dickerson is a successful, beautiful forty-four divorce’ with a fifteen year old daughter named Selena. Sexually abused by her father and a mother that looked the other way she went to live with her best friend, Monica after her father was arrested for killing her mother. Mama May, Monica’s mother introduced her to God, which transformed her life. After fifteen years of marriage, “Peaches’” husband leaves her for a much younger woman leaving her depressed, secluded, and with low self-esteem…until she met Drake. Drake is tall, dark, and very handsome with a mega-watt smile that won’t quit. He also has a dangerous past. After a near death experience, and a stint in prison, Drake vowed to turn his life around. Mainly for his three-year old daughter Destiny. He aspired to become an engineer. He attended college while working three jobs to pay the bills. The only thing holding him back was his greedy, conniving, money hungry, manipulating daughter’s mother…until he met Peaches, who taught him the true meaning of accepting God, which transformed his life. This is a must read for everyone!!! An inspirational dramedy! You won’t be able to put it down! Prepare yourself for an emotional, heartfelt novel, and get ready for a spiritual change!!!!!!

This collection of letters and quotes was composed for a young girl on her thirteenth birthday. Each one, written by a diverse group of women, contains insights and advice on what it means to be a woman in the world today. Poignant, funny, and honest, these words of empowerment and self-discovery connect us to each other and to our own brave voice inside. They inspire hope and an understanding that no matter where lifes journey takes you, you have company. This contemporary, yet ever-timeless wisdom is a beautiful reminder to us all.

A MOTHER AND SON FIGHT TO PRESERVE THEIR DYNASTY... Sak K'uk, the daughter of the first ruler of a powerful Mayan city, faces rebellious nobles and spiritual crisis in her city following a devastating enemy attack. The sacred portal to the Gods is desecrated, temples and crops destroyed and the was ruler killed. With her city in chaos and leaderless, Sak K'uk undertakes a perilous Underworld journey to seek help. After encountering the Underworld Goddess, Sak K'uk rises above the opposition and holds the throne for her young son. She knows that a Mayan prophecy foretold her son’s destiny to become ruler. The intense trials of mother and son forge a special bond that proves both a blessing…and a curse. Enter the ancient Mayan world of jungle-draped stone cities with soaring pyramids and broad plazas gleaming in tropical sun. Experience the turbulent court intrigue wrapped in dazzling rituals common to the bizarre Maya Underworld. Follow the story of this strong-willed young ruler, as she and her son battle to restore their city to greatness at any cost. "The author has great skills at world building and crafting a fantasy story that will keep the reader engaged and entertained from cover to cover. Great author voice and writing style...an entertaining mix." ~Writer's Digest

After a devastating tornado ripped through High Plains, a two-year-old was found wandering all alone. Foster mother Nicki Appleton took in the little girl, her heart bursting with love and prayers. Now the storm's aftermath has brought home the man Nicki once expected to marry, and Clay Logan claims to be a changed cowboy. But with her energy focused on a child she may not be able to keep, is there room for another kind of love in Nicki's heart this Thanksgiving?

In Rewriting Maya Religion Garry Sparks examines the earliest religious documents composed by missionaries and native authors in the Americas, including a reconstruction of the first original, explicit Christian theology written in the Americas—the nearly 900-page Theologia Indorum (Theology for [or of] the Indians), initially written in Mayan languages by Friar Domingo de Vico by 1554. Sparks traces how the first Dominican missionaries to the Maya repurposed native religious ideas, myths, and rhetoric in their efforts to translate a Christianity and how, in this wake, K’iche’ Maya elites began to write their own religious texts, like the Popol Vuh. This ethnohistory of religion critically reexamines the role and value of indigenous authority during the early decades of first contact between a Native American people and Christian missionaries. Centered on the specific work of Dominicans among the Highland Maya of Guatemala in the decades prior to the arrival of the Catholic Reformation in the late sixteenth century, the book focuses on the various understandings of religious analyses—Hispano-Catholic and Maya—and their strategic exchanges, reconfigurations, and resistance through competing efforts of religious translation. Sparks historically contextualizes Vico’s theological treatise within both the wider set of early literature in K’iche’an languages and the intellectual shifts between late medieval thought and early modernity, especially the competing theories of language, ethnography, and semiotics in the humanism of Spain and Mesoamerica at the time. Thorough and original, Rewriting Maya Religion serves as an ethnohistorical frame for continued studies on Highland Maya religious symbols, discourse, practices, and logic dating back to the earliest documented evidence. It will be of great significance to scholars of religion, ethnohistory, linguistics, anthropology, and Latin American history.

"Analyzes the forced migration of Maya women from the highlands of Guatemala and their turn toward language and indigenous clothing revitalization upon their return home"--

Mayas, and indeed all Guatemalans, are currently experiencing the collapse of their way of life. This collapse is disrupting ideologies, symbols, life practices, and social structures that have undergirded their society for almost five hundred years, and it is causing rapid and massive religious transformation among the K’iche’ Maya living in highland western Guatemala. Many Maya are converting to Christian Pentecostal faiths in which adherents and leaders become bodily agitated during worship. Drawing on over fifty years of research and data collected by field-school students, Hawkins argues that two factors—cultural collapse and systematic social and economic exclusion—explain the recent religious transformation of Maya Guatemala and the style and emotional intensity through which that transformation is expressed. Guatemala serves as a window on religious change around the world, and Hawkins examines the rapid pentecostalization of Christianity not only within Guatemala but also throughout the global South. The “pentecostal wail,” as he describes it, is ultimately an acknowledgment of the angst and insecurity of contemporary Maya.