Remember Mercy

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Author House, 2007 M08 23 - 580 páginas
In the fall of 2010, the Turner kids ventured to follow Simmie Turner's trail through Alaska by sea, railroad, and highway. It was a great journey where the scenery remains unchanged since the days of the greatest generation who built the ALCAN highway. Simmie's story was added to the tales of adventure told along the goldrush trail. We hope everyone who reads the book can make the trip to Alaska. It is mythical country. Nothing like it anywhere else.

I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, the Sovereign Lord says. Coming of age through suffering in the Great Depression, a wild mountain boy meets a serious young widow. They start a new family only to be separated by World War II. Like a williwaw squall that sweeps the Aleutian islands, the war uproots young dreams, detours voyages, and hides enemy forces. Are Helens prayers a match for the call of the wild when Sim crosses paths with men who find adventure and fortune with international construction companies? Is psychology or theology a better explanatory frame for the question Robert Frost posed in The Road Not Taken?

 

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The Old Kentucky Home
1
Threshers Coming
17
If you want to see me again
29
Motherless Child
40
Hoosier Hopes
51
Hard Times Pore Boy
71
Wrong Side of the Tracks
91
Grab Hold of Life
107
Cannot Live Without You
172
Fatherless child
184
Stiffen your Spine
191
Klondike Fever
201
Lonesome and Homesick
246
Making the Best of It
272
Dreams and Visions
328
The Challenge
349

Life Takes a Bounce
129
Duty Walks in at the Door
142
A New Home Together
157
Taste of Success
368
Call of the Wild
403
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Remember Mercy
Virginia Douglas
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Acerca del autor (2007)

Virginia L. Douglas, Ed.D, was enchanted by the poem, The Road Not Taken, early in life. From farm to university; from daughter to wife and parent to grandparent; from student to teacher and therapist her way passed through many places and many family stories. But the greatest mystery she ever encountered was the power of prayer: after every wrong turn, can mercy still be found? She affirms that in wrath, remember mercy, is an awesome prayer to the God of the Universe. Retired after 30 years in community mental health in Las Vegas, Nevada she takes courses and volunteers to be with people in crisis and trauma through secular and faith-based organizations. “I’d rather be a responder than a victim,” she says. Her favorite way to be with people is in conversation and prayer.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloRemember Mercy
AutorVirginia Douglas
EditorAuthor House, 2007
ISBN1452091145, 9781452091143
Largo580 páginas
  
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