Author: Clara V. Ruffin
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2012-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781619967090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Clara Ruffin's writings are as fun and heart warming as her teaching. Each student could count on her love and support and in this volume you are invited into her creative classroom as she relives some of her most memorable moments." -Shirley W. Wilson, Former Colleague "Very inspirational. My life on the pages of this book." -Margie Wilson, Paraprofessional "Clara Ruffin's writing is very soulful. In the way she conveys emotion, she is also able to share what is in the heart." -Chivon Tilley, Parent Clara Ruffin's Wisdom from the Briar Patch is her most recent book. In it, she shares classroom experiences as only she can. The book is a compilation of devotionals, poems, insights and quotations that depict a few of the very real issues and struggles found in the schoolhouse. Her works have appeared in Christian Educators' Teachers of Vision Magazine and in Daring to Dream Again (Overcoming Barriers that Hold You Back), a 50-Day Spiritual Adventure for pastors and congregations. Additionally, two of her poems have been published in the Fragrance of Kindness by Cheri Fuller. A segment of her life appeared in Luis Palau's It's a God Thing. Several of her pieces also appear in The Gift of Teaching, a Handbook for Christians Who Serve in Schools by Daniel Elliot and R. Lewis Hodge. Before her retirement, some of her more innovative classroom escapades were written up in the Hartford Courant and Bloomfield Journal. Clara's unpretentious writing style draws you in and holds you. She has written four other books: Esteem, Harvest, We Win, and Tree Trunk Love.
Author: John Phillips
Publisher: John E.\Phillips
Published: 2014-08-13
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780692264911
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Briar Patch Philosopher" is a collection of wise sayings that are simple to remember. One of my favorites that I learned from my dad was, "Even the good will of a bad dog is worth something." We all face bad dogs in our work places, in our families and with our friends. By getting the good will of bad dogs on your side, you make the dog's biting you very difficult. Another of my favorite sayings from "The Briar Patch Philosopher" is, "Suffering leads to patience, patience leads to perseverance, perseverance leads to character, character leads to strength, strength leads to courage, and courage produces a happy life." We generally fail to understand why we suffer mentally, physically and/or emotionally. But once we learn what suffering is teaching us, then we can go through it and come out of it better than we've been. Life is a relatively simple game to play. All we have to do is to strive each day to be better than we've been the day before. You can use this philosophy to achieve almost any goal. In the briar patch of life, you'll encounter thorns, hurts, disappointments, various trials, danger and missteps all along the way. Also, in the briar patch of life, you'll find the true virtues that are necessary - courage, endurance, patience, faith and wisdom. If you're willing to run through the briar patch and the fires of everyday living, and you rely heavily on courage, endurance, patience, faith and wisdom, you can have a happy, successful, prosperous and meaningful life. I've always told my children, "You can learn from the lumps on my head, or you can put those same lumps on your head." The easiest way to get through the briar patch is to learn from the wisdom of others. The most-difficult way to get though the briar patch is to run through the storms, fall in the holes and get hurt, sick, disoriented and discouraged like many do. If you pay attention, the route to wisdom has the right answers for all questions before they're even asked. Wisdom can tell you which road to take, what type of employment to seek, and whether or not to test an idea or try a new business. Wisdom also can teach you when to keep your mouth shut, when to charge into danger with reckless abandon and how to be courageous. To become courageous, you must face and overcome any fear you have about anything. Once you obtain courage and face life unafraid is when you'll find true happiness. Like anyone else, I don't always do the right thing. However, these sayings help me to recognize my mistakes and often prevent me from making the same mistake again. I'm not the briar patch philosopher. I'm just the rabbit who's gone into the briar patch and tried to learn from all who have ventured into the briar patch and come out on the other side. Hopefully like me, you'll learn some wisdom to live by, gain some strength to endure and find the courage to put a smile on your face from "The Briar Patch Philosopher."
Author: Arthur Verdel
Publisher:
Published: 2020-02-22
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781673748185
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →OVERVIEW: Written from a Christian layman's point of view, "OVERCOMING THE BRIAR PATCH" is about discovering and fulfilling one's true purpose for living in a complicated and sometimes confusing society. Though times and technologies have changed, the basics of living and striving for success have not changed since the days of Adam. Along with personal stories of discouragement and failure, the author also used biblical examples and other true stories to help us better understand why bad things happen to us and what we can do to overcome the briar patch. Some stories will take us all the way back to the author's childhood years and reveal how many of our fears, prejudices and attitudes were initially developed. These childhood stories may appear to be fictitious and entertaining, but they were very real in the mind of a child. We also learn that there are three (3) main sources behind our problems and discover that some of our problems have a purpose to harm us while others actually work for our good. We learn that success means different things to different people and that wealth seldom leads to lasting joy. King Solomon tells us where to find wisdom and warns us to avoid the lifestyles of three (3) specific kinds of bad characters. God's word also teaches us how we are to treat others and how we should react to others when they mistreat us. By studying and following God's word, we can lead more productive lives and ultimately win the race.
Author: Sweet Briar College
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-03-18
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780364870204
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Briar Patch, 1923 What return may you make to your college for all that it gives to you? First, give to Sweet Briar the joy of your youth. Youth has manage, it has vision, it has strength, and your college has need of these things. Prove to those about you that knowledge increases happiness and that wisdom and understanding go hand in hand; that learning may be a joyous thing, and that joy is one way by which we may serve the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Monique Tschofen
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781550712001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The writings collected here all testify to the complexity of Gunnars's literary vision as much as they testify to the sheer pleasures of reading her work. In her interview, Gunnars speaks both as a reader and a writer, describing the form and modes of address of her work, as well as the philosophical and literary traditions she draws from. The nine essays and two poems that follow, organized chronologically according to the publication dates of the primary texts they treat, represent a broad range of approaches to Kristjana Gunnars's work. The contributers are M. Travis Lane, Judith Owens, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Deidre Lynch, Stephen Scobie, Anne Malena, Siobhan O'Flynn, K.I. Press, and Christl Verduyn. It is my hope that readers will find in this 'critical community' some productive points of entry into Gunnars's corpus that will stimulate their own thinking about her words and ideas" - from the Introduction by Monique Tschofen.
Author: Mike Jones
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010-06-23
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1452006962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Briar Patch was not written to just "tell a story". It is instead a very humorous anthology, set in a fascinating place with unforgettable characters. Scenes jump from person to person as the sixteen characters interact in a small town setting. Briar Patch is reminiscent of Al Capp's Dogpatch, however, Briar Patch is adult humor with an entirely new cast of characters that literally jump off the page at you.
Author: Warren W. Burnham
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2023-01-19
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 1685709524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There are a few truths that are woven throughout this book. In a way, it is also a story of my own life. First, realize that life is difficult and very complicated; however, all you need to know about how to succeed is stated with assurance in Psalm 1. Read it. Meditate on it daily. Heed it. You will succeed. There may be times in the first, second, or third quarters of life that you may feel like a failure; but if you continue reading, heeding, and meditating on the principles of Psalm 1, you will get back up on your feet and go on with success. At the end of the game of life, you will be successful, ultimately in eternity. And if you read daily, heed, and meditate on the book of Proverbs, you will gain wisdom. You will be wise, knowing that all wisdom comes from God and only from God. The good news from these truths, absolute truths, is that it will be well for you. It will be for your own good. There is no other way for you to be truly wise and succeed in life. Therefore, reading the Bible daily, to keep these truths in your mind, is the way to be wise and successful!
Author: Karen Wiesner
Publisher: Writers Exchange E-Publishing
Published: 2017-01-31
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1925191966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As a teenager, Roman "Bud" Marasek was shy and withdrawn, a farmer's kid who grew up to be a farmer himself. The first girl he loved was Briar Sankey, a popular girl with big, beautiful eyes and a wild clothing and makeup style. It took him years to work up the courage to ask her out, and their date was the best night of his life. But, when she never answered his calls after that and started dating the star athlete, he'd realized he'd only been wishing for the moon. Years passed, Bud fell in love with Evette, had a daughter, and his wife died unexpectedly. Raising Harper hasn't been easy alone, but at forty-seven he feels completely unprepared for being both father and mother to a moody teenage daughter with too many boyfriends and life-and-death meltdowns. He turns to Briar for help. Briar is running her mother's restaurant, has finally toned down her style, and, unbelievably, has never married and seems content to be alone. Looks are deceiving... Briar had spent her life confident she had all the time in the world to make a life for herself and any choice she wanted. At forty-seven, she no longer has the same choices. With both of her parents gone, she's the only one left to run the restaurant, her mother's legacy to the small town of Amethyst and what she considers her "patch" in the big, wide world. Additionally, the few eligible men in the area don't interest her. Letting slip an unintended faux pas, a friend of both Briar and Bud reveals to Briar that Bud has had a thirty year crush on her. Suddenly his reason for coming by the cafe nearly every day of his life takes on startling meaning. In truth, she'd barely noticed him most of the time. When he asks her for help with Harper, she can't refuse. And suddenly she's seeing Bud in a whole new light...and falling in love with the sweet, shy man who's been there all along.
Author: Briarpatch Community Staff
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
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