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The women of Sensible Shoes are navigating both deep joy and devastating loss. Can they find equilibrium in the midst of all that has changed? In this final installment of the Sensible Shoes series, you're invited to travel with beloved friends as they endure trials that test their trust and their willingness to walk an extra mile.

Sharon Garlough Brown tells the moving story of four strangers as they embark together on a journey of spiritual formation, and you're invited to join these four women as they reluctantly arrive at a retreat center and find themselves drawn out of their separate stories of isolation and struggle and into a collective journey of spiritual practice, mutual support and personal revelation. Along the way, listeners will be taken into a new understanding of key spiritual practices and find tangible support for the deeper life with God.

"I was desperate. . . . I couldn't turn off the dark thoughts, no matter how hard I tried or how much I prayed. And then I spent a whole weekend in bed, and the crying wouldn't stop, and I got really scared. I've had bouts with depression before—it's kind of a cloud I've learned to live with—but this time was different. I felt like I was going under, like I'd never feel hopeful again, and then that just made my anxiety worse and it all spiraled from there." Wren Crawford is a social worker who finds herself overwhelmed with the troubles of the world.

In a season of loss and change, Wren Crawford and her great-aunt, Katherine Rhodes, share the journey as companions in sorrow and hope. As Katherine prepares to retire as the director of the New Hope Retreat Center, she faces both personal and professional challenges—especially after the arrival of the board's candidate to replace her. Not only must she confront more unresolved grief from her past, but she's invited to embrace painful and unsettling insights about her own blind spots.

The spiritual journey takes unexpected turns for the women of Sensible Shoes in this third book of the series, continuing on from the events of Two Steps Forward. Having been challenged to persevere in hope, can they now embrace the joy of complete surrender?

The women from Sensible Shoes are taking their next steps in the spiritual formation journey. But each of them is finding roadblocks along the way. Meg, a widow and recent empty nester, is off to see her daughter in London. But what does hope look like when nothing goes as planned?

"'It is finished,' Jesus says. It's a bold declaration for us to make too. What does it mean to say 'It is finished' when so much is unfinished? It means we are people who live hope in two directions, both backward and forward. We long for the kingdom to come in fullness, even as it has already come. And we trust that the One who has begun the good work in us and for us will indeed complete it.

Little did Kathy realize when she decided to visit the lands of her distant ancestors that the pastoral green fields and rolling hills of the Basque countryside held a dark secret. She was simply going to visit the palace fortress containing the sepulchre of her ancestor, the count of Ayala. She didn't know that Luis, who professed love for her and softened the wall she'd built around her heart after her husband's death, would betray her so cruelly.

Are you a business analyst or project manager drowning in theories that never translate into real-world victories? Do you crave practical tips, actionable techniques, and clear guidelines you can implement today? This isn't another dry project management guide book filled with recycled ideas. The Project Manager & Business Analyst Success Playbook offers fresh, insightful perspectives on building powerful BA and PM partnerships.

Some would say the Market is the last authentic part of the city centre. This northern city has reinvented itself as a business and financial centre, bristling with designer shops and bars. A cosmopolitan, twenty-four hour city. Yet slap bang in the centre the Victorian City Market remains what it has always been; a place where you can get anything and see anything - a place teeming with life. The market is the real face of the city - mucky, multicultural and magnificent.

Step into greater embodiment and peace with powerful practices for regulating your nervous system. How can we care for ourselves during tumultuous times? When we’re under stress or experiencing anxiety, many of us try to “think” our way into feeling better. In reality, the answers we seek...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the weary, the angry, the anxious, and the hopeful, this collection of moving, tender prayers offers rest, joyful resistance, and a call to act, written by Barbara Brown Taylor, Amena Brown, Nadia Bolz-Weber, and other artists and thinkers, curated by the author...

The perfect space for me to talk about the massage industry, ways to relax, topics related to women, and any and everything that peaks my interest, as I savor a great cup of tea. Join Sharon Brown, a decade long Massage Therapist, Certified Aromatherapist, Certified Crystal Healer, Reiki Master Teacher, Meditation Specialist and more weekly as we dive into what’s interesting in the world. Keep up with spa events, a new book I have read, or just sip some tea with me and unwind. Feel free to reach out to me via email at lifethetea@gmail.com

Three friends head out into the Alaska Bush to explore an abandoned gold mine. Their adventure turns into a nightmare when the old mine starts caving in. The story then goes back in time to earlier that same year in Anchorage, Alaska, where a young boy, Daniel, starts training one of his grandfather's homing pigeons to be in a race. He discovers that pigeons have special abilities and learns how they have been used in the past for communication. His pigeon, Streak, and Kayla, who gets lost while going for help, meet when they both take refuge under a big spruce tree during a storm.

A Southern Girl Re-Belles is a place where I will share stories about life and the books I've written. To "Re-Belle" means to rise above your defeats and circumstances and move forward with grace, dignity, and style, while wearing your favorite shade of lipstick.Re-Belle is both an attitude and philosophy.Please tune in, and Re-Belle with me...You can check out my blog at rebellelikealady.com

A unique podcast with a mother and her grown children who chop it up about sports and more. Join us on The Shy Show.

Die Sozialarbeiterin Wren Crawford hat seit ihrer Jugend mit Depressionen und einer Angststörung zu kämpfen. Nach einem erneuten Zusammenbruch findet sie Trost und neue Hoffnung in der Kunst von Vincent van Gogh sowie mithilfe von geistlichen Übungen, christlicher Seelsorge und Gesprächen mit ihrer Therapeutin. Doch dann droht eine schwierige Freundschaft aus der Vergangenheit ihre Fortschritte zunichte zu machen.