The Raging Sea is a devotional collection of forty connected poems. Together they describe the story of our relationship with God through all phases of life. We are The Raging Sea as we face our sins and struggle to follow God. Despite us, God works faithfully to bring the storm to still. As a devotional, these poems are meant to bring comfort, introspection, and insight during that journey. Each poem captures a moment in time with its own style and can be considered stand alone or part of...

Vertebrates possess lineage-specific characteristics. These include paired anterior sense organs and a robust, modular head skeleton built of cellular cartilage and bone. All of these structures are derived, at least partly, from an embryonic tissue unique vertebrates - the neural crest. The evolutionary history of the neural crest, and neural crest cells, has been difficult to reconstruct. This volume will use a comparative approach to survey the development of the neural crest in vertebr...

Dear Reader In prepping for Christmas 2009 I asked the Lord for ideas. He said, write a daily book of My words to them. I was excited and anxious; it was already December 1. I sat down after work with my journal and Bible and suddenly He began to speak out the date and the words for that day. If my thoughts got on the page, He would say, take that out! The project took less than two weeks. I was astounded at His love coming through the pages. I was broken by His tenderness, grace and desir...

We walk to God, how wondrous our task,Simple truth, no questions left to ask.We walk to God, an awesome holy thing,Our open hearts are all were asked to bring.Ordinary Miracles is an oxymoron in a world where peace seems unreliable and prayers seem unanswered. But what if the real world exists where miracles are the norm? Miracles of joy and forgiveness always occur within our minds, and their external form may or may not be apparent to us. However,...

Set Free is an inspirational book of poetry to encourage those who are feeling lonely, to inspire those who desire to grow in their faith and to direct those who need guidance in their every day life. It includes scripture verses throughout to bring the reader close to the word of God.

For the man or woman truly seeking to know God in a deep, personal way, Wisdom in Poetry is meant to offer spiritual treasure beyond earthly value. Gods living, eternal Word is manifested in my life on paper in easy-to-read poetry. As you read this Spirit-inspired work, the Holy Spirit will reveal many of the secret things of God hidden in His Word for His people. Jesus spoke in parables because the secret things about Him are for you, not the world. The poems in this book are Scripture-ba...

You are loved.That you've come to this exact page at this precise moment is no accident. It could be that your Heavenly Father has a message for you. A message of hope and encouragement. Will you receive it?My Prayer for You is a selection of twenty-one poems touching on topics of faith, forgiveness, and God's love for us. These selections have been specially chosen from Carolyn Bovender's personal archives with the intent of uplifting your spirit.

Marriage Making it WORK is a "how to" book on marriage; so often times couples get married and have no clue on how to make it last, and too, how to be Happily Married. It gives work for the couples to perform to bring out, and deal with some of the problem areas that they have been afraid to tackle; such as intimacy, conflict, and rules to always abide by when they have their disagreements. Marriage Making It WORK shows couples how to make and keep first things first.

POETRY HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN EMOTIONAL OUTLET FOR ME. GOD HAS ENABLED ME THROUGH POETRY TO RENEW MY MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT. GOD IS THE HEAD OF MY LIFE, JESUS IS THE CENTER OF MY WORLD AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE COMFORTER OF MY SOUL.

When the time comes for us to die, how do we say good-bye to our friends, our families, and the lives we have lived? How do we remain faithful -- to God, to ourselves, and to loved ones -- as we face our final journey?As Marilyn McEntyre acknowledges, these questions are especially challenging because we now live longer than previous generations did, and many of us die more slowly. Those who are dying have a lot of things to deal with -- fear, discouragement, boredom, pain, regret. ...

The problems we have are: the problems in us; the problems between us and God; the problem between us and time; and the problems between us and fellow men. The problem in us is our reactions to problems; the one between us and God is not sin but requesting outside His will; the one between us and time is impatience while the one between us and fellow men is responses.How many of your mistakes have you ignored and still crawling on while mates are flying? Stand up to be picking them ...

Christine Chaos regales many heart wrenching stories through almost lyrical poems. Here lies tales of broken hearts of both the living and the dead. Madame Chaos has come in contact with spirits who have taken their own life, and some who have taken others; soft spoken ghosts and terrorizing ghouls. She has seen and spoken with too many souls to count, but recollects here those that were so memorable; they seem the work of fiction. However, they are as real as the soul that inhabits your o...