You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Before Ginny Kubitz Moyer became a mother, she spent a lot of quiet time with God. But the moment she became a mom, those deeply meaningful times of serenity all but disappeared, raising a critical question: How do you maintain an active spirituality when your life is consumed by the nonstop mayhem of motherhood? In Random MOMents of Grace, Moyer helps mothers realize that their spiritual lives don’t have to stagnate even though most of their time is now spent in a world of play dates and playgrounds. In fact, Moyer contends that all that wiping of noses and reading of bedtime stories can lead to some pretty amazing spiritual growth. For any mom wondering if it’s possible to be fully engaged in the lives of her children without sacrificing her spirituality, Random MOMents of Grace offers a definitive “yes” as it shows moms how to see God’s grace at work in even the silliest, messiest, and most frustrating moments of motherhood.
Grace Moyer Frounfelker presents many inspirational illustrations of what adults can learn from the spiritual life of children. She explains from Scripture and practical experience what it means truly to be childlike. A little child can teach us to accept dependence on others, to open our minds to the awe and wonder of God's world, to be spontaneous in drawing others into community. Jesus asks us to become as a little child. Are we willing to take that risk?
And other pioneers together with historical and biographical sketches, illustrated with eighty-seven portraits and other illustrations.
None
Descendants and some ancestors of Christian Schontz (1776-1862), son of John Schantz. He was born in Lancaster Co., Pa. He married abt. 1801 (1) Mary Margaret Hoover (1787-1839), daughter of Ulrich Hoover. He married (2) Elizabeth Betsey Graffius, daughter of John Graffius and Miss Coryell. Christian migrated from Lancaster County to Huntingdon County, Pa. in the late 1790s. He had seven children with his first wife. He is a great-grandson of the early Mennonite immigrant, Christian Tschantz (ca. 1695-1741), who immigrated to Philadelphia in 1717 from Switzerland. Descendants live in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Includes other unrelated Shontz families from Lancaster County in the early 1700s.
Ghost Towns of Muskoka explores the tragic history of a collection of communities from across Muskoka whose stars have long since faded. Today, these ghost towns are merely a shadow – or spectre – of what they once were. Some have disappeared entirely, having been swallowed by regenerating forests, while others have been reduced to foundations, forlorn buildings, and silent ruins. A few support a handful of inhabitants, but even these towns are wrapped in a ghostly shroud. But this book isnt only about communities that have died. Rather it is about communities that lived, vibrantly at that, if only for a brief time. Its about the people whose dreams for a better life these villages represented; the people who lived, loved, laboured, and ultimately died in these small wilderness settlements. And its about an era in history, those early heady days of Muskoka settlement when the forests were flooded with loggers and land-hungry settlers.