Kidney failure, dialysis, and transplantation are three words that most people hope never to hear in their lifetimes. Mina Gonzales wasnt so lucky. In her memoir, she shares the story of her experiences, a story about choices, destiny, and the ultimate sacrifice that gives life. She knows the pitfalls and setbacks one faces when dealing with the realities of dialysis, organ donation, and kidney transplantation. She recalls those here, along with her journey of personal discovery, family strength, and community involvement. She faced trials and tribulations during dialysis but ultimately emerged victorious, having survived a kidney transplant for more than fifteen years. Her story could be anyones story. Along with her experiences, she focuses on facing the truth about life and recognizing the gift that it is. For anyone facing kidney failure, Gonzales provides the information that you need to know. She addresses not only broad questions of life through the lens of her personal experiences, but also specific questions relating to living with kidney failure: What is dialysis? What types are there? How long is a session? My Choice My Destiny: My Kidney Transplant Journey is intended to be used as a daily spiritual guide to help get through the long hours of dialysis. It is an honest expression of hope that you too will find your donor angel and live a long and healthy life.

Decisions, decisions, decisions. Each and every day of our lives, we are faced with decisions. Some are not as big as others. Some are not as important as others. But it is very important that we all improve our decision-making skills. I was so impacted by the statement, "You are what you are based on the decisions you make," that I decided to write this book. I hope to give you some insights on how important the decisions that we make are. The decisions we make in life determine our destiny. I also hope to illustrate to you how to make good quality and godly decisions. May this book be a blessing to you because your decisions will determine your destiny!

God has a plan and a purpose for your life. You have a destiny and your destiny will be determined by the decisions you make in life. So it is very important that we make wise decisions. So many people are blaming their plight in life on people and circumstances. My pastor made a statement that says, "You are what you have become." I am convinced you have become what you are as a result of the decisions you have made. In this book I want to show you that it is up to you to walk out the plan that God has ordained for your life. I will show you such principles as: *The Choice is Yours *Your Decisions Affect Others *Your Decisions Have Consequences *Decisions Require Faith *Decisions Require Responsibility *You can Bounce Back from Bad Decisions *8 Steps to Making a Good Decision

DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM. Deep inside, most people know they were created for more than the mundane, monotonous, "everydayness" of life. We long to be heroic, exceptional, and fulfilled, but instead we find ourselves frustrated and far from reaching our potential. We fear that our dreams and God's will are at odds, and that God's will might make us unhappy or be unattainable. But our personal dreams are often dreams that God has given us to pursue. In Discover Your Destiny, Bill and Kathy Peel look at the hopes and desires that shape our lives, giving readers the inspiration and courage to make those dreams come true. By examining our dreams against God's Word, we can discover if a dream is part of God's will and our destiny. If you long to play on the PGA Tour, open a restaurant, or move overseas, Discover Your Destiny will help you evaluate your dreams and show you how to make them come true.

Every day of your life, you'll be busy making "choices," and some will affect you for the rest of your life. Tragically, some will also impact others throughout their lives as well. The sum of a lifetime of making personal "choices" will determine the kind of life and the quality of life that you will have literally "chosen" to live. Your "choices" will determine if your life will be like you're driving down a smooth, easy-to-travel, wide open freeway. Or, if your life will take you down a "Road from Hell," filled with devastating potholes and dangerous, off the main road detours! Weighing the consequences of "Choice A" over "Choice B" before you make your decision, is a whole new way of thinking for most young people. Because every "choice" has consequences! The alternative is running the risk of having to endure the bad consequences of impulsive "choices" for a long, long time. Make this new way of thinking your "Blueprint for Success in Life."

Best of friends, Destiny Brockman and her neighbor Miles Stafford bet that they can set each other up on a date with the perfect match, but their wager backfires when they realize that they are made for each other.

Every great person has an intentional belief system that decides their destiny through the decisions that they make. They choose the path of the kind of life that they want for themselves. Important decisions such as career choices, family values, personal virtues, principles, faith convictions and the choice of friends become defined. Nothing is left to guesswork or to chance. Making tough decisions to govern and secure our lives for the long run is not a matter to be taken lightly. Failure to do this has an almost certain consequence - it pushes people to lose their moral compass, forget their value-based living and forfeit the strength of character to stand the test of time. People who do not make these decisions, though they may be good looking, bright in school or intelligent in life, they do not establish a good legacy or build success for posterity. My Character, My Destiny is a life tool to help become somebody of substance for youself and in society. It is a lesson that a life defined is a life insured! Building good character is one of the surest ways to define, protect and propagate a fruitful life - personally and generationally. For indeed, character is destiny!

A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of 2016 William James is often considered a scientist compromised by his advocacy of mysticism and parapsychology. Jonathan Bricklin argues James can also be viewed as a mystic compromised by his commitment to common sense. James wanted to believe in will, self, and time, but his deepest insights suggested otherwise. "Is consciousness already there waiting to be uncovered and is it a veridical revelation of reality?" James asked shortly before his death in 1910. A century after his death, research from neuroscience, physics, psychology, and parapsychology is making the case, both theoretically and experimentally, that answers James's question in the affirmative. By separating what James passionately wanted to believe, based on common sense, from what his insights and researches led him to believe, Bricklin shows how James himself laid the groundwork for this more challenging view of existence. The non-reality of will, self, and time is consistent with James's psychology of volition, his epistemology of self, and his belief that Newtonian, objective, even-flowing time does not exist.

“Life is all about the choices that you make,” but what about the choices that you don’t? Like family, like sexuality? Often like his untuned guitar, Ayaan would sing the songs of quarrels with his father Rakesh because he believed in becoming nothing like him. Kavita, being Ayaan’s mother would try to protect him but, she was tired of her incomplete marriage & a chaotic family. However, she would hide her turmoil behind her poise. Rakesh, a failure in business, marriage & family, would try to protect Ayaan from the life that he has lived. Ayaan, trying to escape the family drama meets Ruhi, his high-school sweetheart while working on their independent song. On an emotional journey of a chaotic matrix, he finds calm to his storm Zen Kapoor. Zen, the sound of silence, is as serene as a floating cloud. And Ruhi, a calming green meadow. Ayaan, unable to choose amongst the two. Drowned in the emotional chaos of his sexuality & broken family, Ayaan chooses to abandon his family & relocate himself to start afresh. But, a sudden offer drags him back. A year away from home but, when he comes home back his life changes. What choice will Ayaan make when life will provide him with two hearts – Zen & Ruhi?