Is your heart hurting? Are you struggling to 'keep it all together' under a heavy load? Is your journey leaving your heart battered and bruised? Are your life circumstances pinning you down and drowning your dreams? Ah, friend. I have been there, too. When your heart is hungry, when your spirit withers under fierce opposition, when your soul is desperate to find what it so desperately craves, nothing but more of Jesus, more of God's peaceful presence will satisfy. Come with me to the garden – its leafy boughs sing soothing songs, therapeutic to the soul. Its restful peace restores, its blossoms bless and encourage. The lessons a garden teaches are accessible to all – and God's green-leafed grace can bring health and vitality to your desolate spirit as you stroll its paths. So come with me to the garden. If you are anything like me, you will find what your soul thirsts for so frantically among its fruits and foliage. You may just find God there...

Each of forty-six original stories based upon events in the five books of Moses is followed by a lesson to dramatize its contemporary significance.

This collection of inspired poetry from Helen Schucman was created through the same process of "inner dictation" as A Course in Miracles.

There’s a strong biblical connection between people and trees. They both come from dirt. They’re both told to bear fruit. In fact, arboreal language is so often applied to humans that it’s easy to miss, whether we're talking about family trees, passing along our seed, cutting someone off like a branch, being rooted to a place, or bearing the fruit of the Spirit. It’s hard to deny that trees mean something, theologically speaking. This book is in many ways a memoir, but it’s also an attempt to wake up the reader to the glory of God shining through his creation. One of the first commands to Adam and Eve was to “work and keep” the garden. Award-winning author and songwriter Andrew Peterson, being as honest as possible, shares a story of childhood, grief, redemption, and peace, by walking through a forest of memories: “I trust that by telling my story, you’ll encounter yours. Hopefully, like me, you’ll see that the God of the Garden is and has always been present, working and keeping what he loves.” Sometimes he plants, sometimes he prunes, but in his goodness he intends to reap a harvest of righteousness.

A profound reminder of our role in God's vision for a restored and reconciled world. "The work before us--this mission of God's--is immense, cosmic, even. The world is hungry, thirsty, homeless, sick, lonely, imprisoned and enslaved--because some parts are. The creation is groaning in travail because of our abuse of the garden in which we have been set. The body is ailing. Participating in God's mission is about seeing and responding to that collective suffering, and beginning to understand our interconnection with the other parts of the body." --from the Introduction In the Christian tradition, believers are called to do more than sit around and pray. Throughout the Gospel--and throughout history--people of faith have been quite literally booted out into the world to bring God's love to everybody, not just a select few. That's the meaning of mission--from the Latin verb mitto, meaning, "to send." It is the work that Jesus and his disciples set out to do--feeding, healing and teaching. In an insightful and powerful voice, Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church, explores the meaning of mission in the context of contemporary life, reminding us of the Anglican Communion's Five Marks of Mission: Proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom Teach, Baptize and Nurture New Believers Respond to Human Need with Loving Service Seek to Transform Unjust Structures of Society Strive to Safeguard the Integrity of Creation, and Sustain and Renew the Life of the Earth

Lisa Erawoc takes you on a spiritual journey In Emmanuels Garden: Passion, Prayer and Purpose. She writes about her deepest connection to God and her desire to live spiritually-minded while facing challenges. Her love for God drives her to seek out serene and peaceful locations to be alone with Him so she can nourish her spirit. Her writing is profound and speaks to the heart of anyone seeking a relationship with God, to those facing trials that need encouragement, hope and comfort, or to anyone deeply moved with compassion for the pain and suffering of others. Her poems remind us that we are not alone on this journey. God is available to everyone who desires to know Him. As a child, Emmanuels garden gave her a sense of peace and started her on a spiritual path to her destiny. Today, she is helping others live a life of passion, prayer and purpose through her writing.