New Wings Review

Donna Stanley has done a wonderful job in this book illustrating the reality of the spiritual realm and it's impact on our everyday lives. Aimed at young people about high school aged, the book asks and answers a lot of questions about angels and demons. Topics like prayer and worship and sensuality and the occult are given place here and the reader is caused to think and evaluate.

As a matter of fact I'm going to have my 14 year old read it now.

I'd certainly recommend this book, especially to junior high and high school kids. The kids in public school even more so. I think this book is a great tool for bringing up some vital topics. Life and death stuff both physically and spiritually. Very mature material is made to be easily understood and I liked that.

What I didn't like about the book was the lack of character development and inconsistencies. It bothered me. As someone who reads quite a bit I have the maybe annoying habit of getting distracted by things like that. I can't say this is great literature in that sense but I certainly think the book is immensely successful in teaching young people some basic biblical truths regarding spiritual warfare that are simply rarely taught in the church, much less the average   "Christian" home.

In New Wings the kids who are churched and living in homes with dusty, unused Bibles are certainly typical of so many kids today. I hope a book like this can help teach and train them. It's seems to me so sad that we as believers aren't doing a very good job of that. I read this and was made aware of so many areas that I need to start focusing on with the kids I have left at home. So many things of a spiritual and real nature that they need to talk about and have modeled and things I need to help them practice. Prayer, discipline, worship, spiritual eyes...

I do recommend this book. I just don't think it's the kind of book that grabs you and pulls you into the story for the reasons I stated above. There's plenty of storyline in there to entertain it just doesn't seem to be developed to my personal liking. Maybe you won't be as judgmental as me though! Let me know?

Birthday Boy

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To Men Everywhere...

In Broken Places

 

It took me awhile to warm up to this book. I felt there were too many adjectives. Too much wordiness. It took too long to let me know what was going on...but maybe I was in a bad mood the day I started it because before too long I was emotionally enthralled. I was completely in the world spun oh-so-cleverly by a gifted author.

 

This is a powerful story about overcoming the crippling and often generational effects of abuse. Specifically child abuse. Shelby and Trey- survivors, drawing life from each other, siblings that overcame. I can't say how much I adored the relationship these two characters have. All of the characters are amazing, the writing is witty and the story heart wrenching and then heart warming. Completely believable.

 

Reading the portions that were set in Shelby and Trey's childhood was often hard. Abuse is brutal and the author did a genuinely vivid job of portraying it, as well as the damage left in the wake of it. I suppose because she knows firsthand, having experienced it firsthand and calling herself a survivor. I love that God took something horrible in her life and brought something beautiful in the healing of it. Woven into the story is a life-strengthening message of hope. That Suffering doesn't kill us. Not at all. We get to choose what we do with what's done to us. We do, too.

 

I'd say this book was astonishingly beautiful once I got into it. If you want to be touched, healed a little...helped a bit, then this book is for you. I recommend it.

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Product Description

Shelby's life isn't glamorous, but it is predictable-and that's the way she likes it. A survivor of her father's violence, she has spent a lifetime creating a safe existence devoid of dependence. But her carefully managed world begins to break when, under staggering circumstances, she becomes a single mother to four-year-old Shayla. In a drastic attempt to escape her childhood's influence, Shelby moves to Germany, but she quickly discovers how intimately linked memory and healing are-and how honestly she must scrutinize her past in order to aspire to a richer future. As she juggles a new job, a new culture, a new daughter, and the attention of an enterprising man, Shelby's fresh start becomes a quest for the courage to be not only a survivor, but someone who prevails.

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Workin' the Bees

This morning before it
got too hot I put on my gorgeous purple bee suit and headed out to my bee yard behind the barn.

My original hive has a bad queen and my bees are just plain mean. I got a new, marked queen from another bee keeper.

My plan was to inspect the hive and find and kill the old queen and replace her with the new queen. I was going to allow the split box make their own queen and see how they all fared.

However being inexperienced as I am I looked at all 20 full frames and couldn't find the queen. There were lots of queen cells and the hive was crowded so they were likely scheduling a swarm any old time!

I ended up splitting to colony in half and leaving the old queen in her hive and placing the new queen in her cage with candy in the hole in the new hive. I sprayed it with some syrup for good measure.

I put Api Guard in both boxes and an empty 10 frame box on each.

Hopefully they both do super and I get lots of honey the end of the summer.

The bees are ticked! In was sweating and covered in them by the end. Praise The Lord for a husband who bought me a purple bee suit and out up with all of my projects!