Landon seems to have it all together. He's smart, funny, and an excellent basketball player with a heart the size of Texas. The only time he ever really feels off his game is when he crosses paths with a certain girl...Brittany Baker. As the school year comes to an end, he finally faces his fears by telling Brittany how he feels about her. As he gains ground with Brittany, he makes an unrealized mistake that might cost him the girl that he has worked so hard to win over. Will Landon overcome his mistake... or will he loose Brittany, the girl of his dreams.
Jonathan began writing the Daily Spiritual Vitamin in 1997. It began after a conversation with a local businessman who confessed to not having extra time to spend in God's Word each morning, before heading off to work. This seemed to be true of many other people that Jonathan spoke to. Jonathan thought that perhaps sending over a short word of encouragement, including a Bible verse, and having it arrive in a person's inbox as they began their busy day, just might be the thing they needed. What began as a simple message sent out to a handful of individuals has grown over the years. With a daily audience of over 200 people, spreading throughout the United States, the Daily Spiritual Vitamin offers a word of encouragement and is a source of blessing to many. The entire project is based on Hebrews 3:13. It is not written as if it were taken from the pages of a Seminary book, but rather directly from the heart of a person who simply wishes to take what God has and is showing him, and share it with others in an effort to lift them up and bless them.
Meditations on life and death from the shores of Lake Superior to the North Sea.
The Desk on the Sea begins four years after American poet Jonathan Johnson spread his mother's ashes in her beloved Lake Superior and moved with his wife and young daughter into a seventeenth-century cottage on Scotland's North Sea. On an idyllic, desolate coast and in the wild Highlands, Johnson began his search for a way to live through ongoing grief and to take in the wonder of each new day.
Through years of extraordinary suffering by way of multiple ailments, Johnson's mother, Sheila, endured an astounding number of amputations--a toe, the end of a finger, a foot, whole fingers, the other foot. What she lost in her physical being, she gained in her kindness and generosity. By the time she was told that the only way she could survive a little longer was the amputation of both hands, she was capable of giving those who loved her and herself a beautiful death instead. Inspired by her example of grace and awareness, Johnson and his family gave themselves one year on the coast of Scotland to live by Shelia's great, guiding principle: We don't get the days back. They wandered trails along windswept shores and past the stone ruins left by people who'd come and gone before. They played as characters from Harry Potter on deserted beaches. From their cottage, they watched an island lighthouse, counting the seconds between flashes to know exactly when to say goodnight so the lighthouse would answer with a wink.
The Desk on the Sea is a chronicle of progress toward one man's new life goal--to be a father, husband, and poet worthy of his mother's legacy. Sustained by an unwavering belief that words can help us fully occupy our lives, and that imagination and empathy can transform suffering into what John Keats called soul-making, Johnson offers readers a raw look at love and loss.
A Swan in the Fire (The Book of Ashes, Book 1)
In a world where reality is a carefully crafted illusion, Jonah Reed is an artist who refuses to conform. Trapped in a dystopian society where the elite control everything-media, government, even thought-he discovers a glitch in the system that reveals the truth: humanity is not free, but imprisoned in a simulated existence, while the real world has been abandoned to ruin.
Hunted for his defiance, Jonah's only ally is Eleanor Vale, a woman with visions of a destiny she does not yet understand. As they uncover the dark forces behind the illusion-elite rulers who worship something far more sinister-Jonah must choose between comfort and truth, survival and sacrifice.
But the truth comes at a cost. And in the end, saving the world may mean losing everything he loves.
A Swan in the Fire is a gripping dystopian thriller filled with haunting imagery, prophetic themes, and a tragic rebellion against a world that doesn't want to wake up. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, 1984, and Brave New World.