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Grace for the Race: Meditations for Busy Moms
Dena Dyer
Mothers looking for hope in their lives will be enlightened and encouraged by Grace for the Race. This series of devotions (geared toward different stages in the life of a woman and mother) will uplift readers in many ways. Each devotion starts with a quote, has a short essay, and then ends with 'Notes from the Coach,' which are Bible verses that apply to the reading.
Nine sections divide a mother's life into stages. 'Training Well' relates different things the author has learned about parenting. 'Warming Up' and 'Stretching Out' are about accepting our own weaknesses and those of our children. 'The First Lap' is all about those first few years of parenting. 'Using Proper Equipment' focuses on prayer, friends, humor, the church, and other things which can be our greatest weapons against discouragement. In 'Hopping Over the Hurdles', Dyer focuses on obstacles to growing and becoming a godly woman. 'Handing It Off' talks about reaching out to others and enduring difficult times. 'In the Final Stretch' shows how God can help us reach into our reserves if we need to. 'Crossing the Finish Line' helps us learn to share our faith. Finally, 'On the Podium' talks about the gifts we receive.
Each section imparts wisdom, humor, and just the right amount of encouragement for moms who are burned out, busy, and needing a pick-me-up. God's Word sprinkled throughout the readings gives added emphasis to God's ideal for our lives. For moms (including myself) who struggle with perfectionism and busyness, Dena Dyer's transparency is refreshing. The readings are the perfect length for moms to fit into the small bits of time available in their days. Grace for the Race would make an excellent gift for any mom in your life. Detours to Destiny: From the Pit, from the Pen, from the Cave, from the Den to the Palace is the first of two books. The second book, Detours to Destiny: Prophetic Poetry is mainly poetry which affects our spiritual and eternal life. Both books include insight, revelation, and inspiration to pursue our divine purpose and ultimate destiny in such a time as this when God speaks bluntly to Humanity to make a change:
Humanity: You have become so accustomed to your way of life in your world; that the existing evil, manifested in diverse forms, seems to be so familiar that you no longer stop to reflect on the causes of its origin.
The cause of so much pain and bitterness in the world, is due to your having made bad use of your free will, and you have broken the harmony that should exist between man and the laws dictated by the Author of life. Everything has been profaned by man, therefore, it must be restored to its proper course.
Oh, humanity saddened, shadowed by pain and bitterness! How much evil I contemplate in your world! Children are already acquainted with bitterness and their heart quickly hardens. Flowers wilt while still in full bloom, gray hairs begin to shine prematurely. Discord has invaded the most intimate part in the life of men; very bitter has been the fruits produced by the lack of harmony amongst humanity. The world is agitated in the midst of a storm and has forgotten its spirit in the profoundness of its being. There is hunger in the heart of men, there exist spiritual decline and the need to live. I see you contemplate the course of this world with indifference.
Religions disregard one another and pull apart among themselves and vices gather strength within men. Attempt is made against life, which is sacred. My spirit contemplates humanity’s orphanhood, the emptiness that each carries in his heart, I see how they search for ways to satisfy it with pleasures and yet cannot find the means to calm their thirst, even within the spirit; I see it agitate in chaos, harboring war in the heart and even in the spirit; taking the homicidal weapon and giving loose rein to the tongue as a veritable two edge sword. Some attack, others defend themselves. Some sow death, while others cling on to life. Sin has multiplied and the environment is contaminated, confusing the mind and the heart.
Millions of people who are ill, inhabit the earth; children wandering throughout the world abandoned to their own fate, with no set path to follow; multitudes of elderly people without comfort; helpless widows and women who ignore the pleasures of that warmth in a true home.
Humanity, have you not become weary of struggling uselessly, unable to find the purpose of your existence? You present to Me a life without ideals because you have not found the joy in love, in charity and in benevolence.
Humanity raises the following questions to God: The pain that afflicts this world, will it be prolonged forever? When shall we be able to live within morality and virtue? When shall we see that mutual respect between parents and children and between spouses? When shall we see again the innocence in children, purity in maiden, righteousness in males, dignity in the elderly, justice in the judges, magnanimity in the rulers, in one word, love amongst men? I say to you, humanity, pain will disappear when there is respect, and charity between one another, when you recognize that you shall not dispose the life of another fellow-being or of your own. When you learn to see beyond yourselves; when you learn how to love and forgive; when hatred and selfishness disappear from your lives, and when you penetrate within yourselves and meditate on the origin of evil.
Up until now, even though the world is small, you have not learned to live as one family. In how many confusions you have fallen humanity! In spite of this, here before you is the one who has never become tired of waiting for you and who comes near your heart to fill its immense emptiness with My love. Trust, and have hope; your days or expiation have been great; but soon you will contemplate a more limpid path and you shall have that peace you have longed for.
Beloved humanity, whom I have come to visit in exile and to comfort within its prison, feel My presence and you will lack nothing! I can only tell you that what is mine I will not let it become lost. I love you even before you existed, and I shall love you eternally.
I leave you this lesson, so that through it, you can look into the past, seeking your beginning, examine the present and look towards the future. Behold that the earth now seems so small to contain so much human pain. This world which should be the home of just one family, is the apple of discord and cause of absurd ambitions, treason and wars, allowing its heart to become poisoned with rebelliousness, bitterness, materialism and unconformity. Meditate in all this, and do not give judgement so I do not have to repeat to you: "He who is free of sin, cast the first stone".
The books takes us down the roads taken by twelve men of destiny: Moses, Jacob, David, Joseph, Paul, Peter, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshech, Abendigo, Job and Jesus. Their lives served as examples as they were thrown in the pits, the pens, the caves, and the dens and yet they rose to the Palace. You will have the opportunity to look at your spiritual self by taking The Humility Evaluation to see if you are in right standing or should you make a change. Will you be humble enough to examine your traditions, beliefs, doctrines if you are in error? This book deals with revealing the errors in different faiths according to the word of God. Only a wise man will listen and change and benefit from "The Greatest Lessons learned" also a major chapter in the book.
Research was done as the author went on a quest and while wandering, found Famous Destiny Quotes, Famous Wilderness Quotes, The 40 Days to Destiny Journal, and received Prophetic Word for the Church from several anointed ministries across the nation.
PROPHETIC Poetry is included in both books, with the second book containing only poetry that warns christians to Escape from Error, of Toxic Traditions, Ten Deadly Sins, Domestic Abuse, Apostasy, while also praising the triumphs of biblical characters who fulfilled divine destiny.
Included in the books are also new testaments such as The Testament of Love and the mysterious Third Testament which includes teachings from the First, Second, and Third Eras. Detours to Destiny books are written with the divine love of God as their mission is to help man get on course and stay on course until his eternal end. In these books, there is an outcry to the ones who are lost in the wilderness or wandering in the dark beckoning man to come into the light of God's path which will lead to His Promises. It explains the reasons for suffering and pain, it comforts the afflicted, and consoles the burdened.
In closing, Detours to Destiny is a divine work breathed upon by the Holy Spirit of God, written to all Humanity, to warn, inform, and guide all men, good or bad, Christian or nonChristian, believing or unbelieving, to their true paths to prosperity, promise and provision. Wherever you are, whoever you are, Detours to Destiny speaks to you saying, "You have a divine destiny to pursue. Let us show you how. Take this journey with us to purpose, but watch out for those pits, pens, caves, and dens in the Wilderness!"
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