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An unlikely pair, a Sicilian immigrant, Giuseppe, and an Ozark native, Judy, are brought together by a mutual friend to discuss a writing project Giuseppe has in mind. At the meeting, Giuseppe unexpectedly invites Judy to dinner to discuss his project further. At dinner, the elderly couple finds they have much in common, and though Giuseppe soon returns to Sicily, where he has gone to live in retirement, they keep in touch. When he returns to America months later to visit family, Giuseppe and Judy know they are in love. Over the next few years, they sometimes wonder if their deep love for one can weather the serious problems they face. .
Whenever author Judith P. Foard-Giucastro had an interesting thought or question about her Christian faith or experienced a moment when she especially felt God’s presence in her life, she grabbed whatever scrap paper was nearby and documented her thoughts. Scrap Paper Reflections is a product of those notes she jotted down on a ragtag assortment of scrap paper. This collection of short meditations and stories charts the faith journey she’s taken since her retirement in 2003. Some of the selections describe the joys of a slower pace of life after retirement, the anxiety and grief associated with the long-term illness and death of her first husband, coming to terms with that loss, the joy of falling in love again and marrying, the illness and unexpected death of her second husband, and the attempt to move on with life. In other stories, Foard-Giucastro raises religious questions, points out something new she’s seen in a scriptural passage, or tells of special times in God’s presence. Insightful and inspirational, Scrap Paper Reflections shares Foard-Giucastro’s ongoing encounters with God as well as her questions, her doubts, and her discoveries.
In Another Face of God, author Giuseppe Giucastro puts forth the following thesis: that God has always challenged us to develop resources on Earth to improve life here. Now, Giucastro believes, God is challenging us to use technology for the development of the afterlife, a recycling of souls that has long been neglected. This thesis took root in 1977, when Giucastro, an ordinary Sicilian immigrant and New York City hairdresser, experienced an extraordinary dream. In it, God, the Holy Spirit, and seven wise men of the past began to put in his mind a new awareness. Over the next forty years, Giuseppe Giucastro--"Joseph" in his new home of America--was tutored in his dreams by these wise people...
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