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The death of a friend is a source of pain and grief. For the author, it is also a chance to reflect on the role of friendship in our pursuit of truth. His essays explore friendship as the bond linking Christians, Muslims and Jews alike to the religious traditions embraced in the search for truth.
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"A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can’t distinguish burden from embrace.” — People New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett’s first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy. Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Gealy's critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, years of chemothe...
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There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother (see Proverbs 18:24 TLB) It is true not everyone you meet has been sent by God. Some people have been handpicked and deployed by Satan to derail you from fulfilling your life's purpose. "Truth Teller" exposes the lies and strategies used by Satan to gain strongholds in the lives of individuals, families, and even entire generations. Learn how to recognize the counterfeit plan of Satan versus the genuine plan of God for your life. Become empowered and arm yourself with the knowledge to identify: • healthy divine connections to people that have been preordained by God • demonic agents assigned to destroy your destiny working through people Once you have been made aware of God's divine connections, whether male or female, you will become more cognizant of how to nurture those relationships while maintaining the purity of each person's God-purpose in your life.
These pages show readers how to transform superficial friendships into soul-nourishing relationships, bringing them from shallowness and frivolity to a deep communion of mind and heart -- a communion that will become, for those who read this book and for their friends, a means for emotional and spiritual growth. Married couples will find here new ways to appreciate the gift God has given to them in their spouse. Best of all, readers will learn how to achieve friendship with God. As they enjoy this divine friendship and enrich their human friendships, they'll come to see how truly author Hugh Black speaks when he says that no one would care to live without friends, even if he had all other good things.