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A careless driver sweeps newcomer Topher Brookman off the road and into the ditch, six miles from home. Ill-equipped to walk home, Topher staggers into the yard of a stranger. Life in a rural, conservative town has taught Topher to keep his mouth shut, but his host is just gorgeous, and Topher's brain is more than half-frozen, anyway. Chase Miller loves winter and the snow, but finds life hard in his hometown. He’s been looking for a way to get out, or maybe, just maybe, a reason to stay. When a snow-covered, handsome guy ends up seeking refuge in Chase’s home during the storm, Chase can’t help but flirt. Because country boys know, where there’s a spark, there’s usually flame.
Introduction Proverbs 25:28 A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls. Isn't celibacy hard? People always ask me "Isn't staying celibate hard?" This is my response. "The first month was hard...The first year was hard, but now it's easy." So the real question is, "how bad do you want it?" Becoming Celibate is like learning how to ride a bike... Learning to ride a bike for the first time when you were a kid, was "hard" but, you didn't give up! You knew other kids were riding bikes, and you wanted to experience that "sense of freedom" of riding a bike, on your own. The long term rewards are the prize! Becoming Celibate is not easy when you first start, but the long term "rewards" of success of staying celibate, outweigh the "difficulty" of getting there. So what is your reason for choosing to be celibate? What is the reason you want to be celibate? That is what you should focus on. Not on how hard it must be to maintain celibacy. As believers, we know that God is strong. Lean on God for support, by reading his words. God makes all things that seem impossible...possible! Candid confessions about past love sex and relationships I speak candidly in this book about my past. So if you are offended by reading about a person's feelings, emotions and experiences related to sex, relationships and hooking up, don't read this book. However if you think it might be interesting and informative to learn from a now "celibate woman's" perspective, then you may really enjoy reading this book. If you dislike reading about God… If you dislike reading about God, don't read this book. God is a big part of my life and my major reason and inspiration for becoming celibate. I would not call myself "Christian" but I am definitely a believer. You may have found this book in a "Christian" section. Regarding my faith, I just say, "I believe in God."
Celibacy and Soul: Exploring the Depths of Chastity is for women and men who have chosen to live into celibate chastity. It is also for those people who live celibate love, and though not vowed to a religious calling, know the way of celibate love as their path. You may find yourself celibate not by choice or you may hope it is a temporary stage. Perhaps life interrupted your plans with the death of a loved one, the loss of a relationship, the situation of illness, the trauma of abuse, or you simply didn’t settle with the desired partner and you want to find meaning in your life as a celibate person. Celibacy and Soul is also useful for those in the helping professions, as the work of a therapist asks a celibate kind of loving that can be catalyst for change in both clients and practitioners.
Quitting porn can be extremely easy. And it doesn't require you to fight your way to the finish line.It doesn't require you to scare yourself, guilt yourself, or punish yourself.Sadly, most conventional techniques focus on all the wrong ways to quit porn. That is why most people end up failing after a few days, weeks, or months. And even if they don't, they feel like they're pushing against a mountain "resisting" it for the rest of their lives.This book presents a completely different approach that works. It challenges conventional advice out there, which is why you don't see it shared more widely. It's based on coaching untold men from across the world to quit porn easily--for good! Whether you're 14 years old or 70 years old, this approach works.It's also based on 10+ years of my own frustrations at trying to quit porn. This approach is the only method that helped me quit immediately and painlessly. And I haven't looked back since.It's also based on the best research on addiction recovery, cognitive behavior therapy, and mindfulness. In short, this approach works!My promise to you: I'm not going to guilt you, shame you, talk down to you, or scare you. All those tactics actually make it harder to quit porn.I will also not put you through torture to quit porn. It will be easy. Perhaps you think your case is different. That you are truly broken beyond repair. I've worked with such people as well. And in every case, by the end of our time together, they would see through the issue and say out loud themselves: "I can't believe that's how easy it was."You have very little downside, and an extremely large upside from taking me on this! If this approach works, you will be free from porn for the rest of your life. Without the cravings. Without the self torture.Imagine the self-confidence and energy you will gain back! Imagine the impact in your relationships and school and work! Imagine the change in your own personal self perception.So join me in the easy way to quit porn forever!About the Author: Hi, call me Yogi. I'm a happily married man living in California, who used to have a deep secret.For most of my life, I used to be an addict, and I want to share that story with you.Right now, I feel this incredible sense of confidence that I am definitely never going to look at porn again. It wasn't always like this.I got hooked probably when I was 12 or 13 years old. It was in the days of of dial-up internet (2001, 2002) but I remember the tantalizing feel of having those static images load up. With time, it just got worse.I was probably 18 years old when I realized I had a problem. I tried to quit it but my mind just did not want to cooperate. I still just saw it as a habit, not as an addiction. Even in college, when there were some amazing people who wanted to be with me, I instead stuck with the Porn-Masturbation-Orgasm (PMO) habit.Watching porn no longer held any pleasure for me. It was just a compulsion. And I hated myself for it.Then one day, I stumbled across an idea that changed my life...This idea was so easy, so downright magical, I was able to quit porn once and for all. Overnight. What felt difficult, an uphill battle to "quit the porn habit" became as easy as pie. What used to take all my willpower to resist became almost laughable. Over the next few months, I coached a select group of men to quit porn. Some as young as 14. Others in their 50s.Students, doctors, lawyers, artists, programmers, entrepreneurs, musicians, construction workers, plumbers, etc.Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists. All have benefited from this.You name it, I've helped them.And every time, the shift was magical.Now I want to help you do the same. I've put the best ideas from everything I've learned to write this book.Read this book and quit porn easily--forev
The author's autobiography, cast in fictional form, from boyhood through to Ordination and beyond, to his final relinquishing of the priesthood and at least partial disillusionment. The book tells of the heights and depths, the joys and sorrows; all the myriad elements which go into the making of that enigmatic being, the Catholic Priest. It sets out to be deeply, even brutally honest and informative, but entertaining too; a "hard-to-put-down good read". It is the author's hope that these aims have been achieved. Read the generous preview for a good taste.The author, M.P. Burns, was for some years a Catholic Priest who has written much on various aspects of his faith.
Also known as "The Hardest Thing to Do Is to Say I Love You"I have a secret hidden deep down in my heart:I have loved Dixon Gregg for nine whole years.When I was young, I followed behind him.When I grew up, I finally became his wife.But he never once loved me. He did not even show me an ounce of pity.I tempted him into dating me using a divorce and Shaw Corporations as my bargaining chips, but he remained unmoved.He would never remember that nervous little girl who followed behind him cautiously.It was not until after we divorced that I realized that this so-called love had been one-sided...
Professor Temple Richardson-Hopkins and his husband Eric, along with their children, A.J. and Miriam, first seen in Building Us and continuing with their somewhat mitigated disasters in Cascade Failure, return for another misadventure. A thief at Temple’s workplace is getting him down, and Eric is exhausted from pursuing his college education. When offered an unexpected discount for a beach rental house, the family decides to vacation in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Having kids makes it hard on Eric and Temple to maintain their relationship. Marriage is work, and these guys have more than their fair share of difficulties. That’s what makes spring break so rewarding; beach adventures, renewed intimacy between long-time lovers, kite-flying, and family fun. Until the very worst happens. As a gay, interracial couple in the Deep South, how will Eric and Temple deal with a parent’s worst fear?
Wil is an Irish dancer, the epitome of grace and endurance. Danny's a caber-tosser, with the upper body strength of an ox. Both of them are Gaelic to the core, with tempers and tastes to match. After a bad breakup, Wil comes across his old lover at the annual Highland Games. Can Wil and Danny strike a balance between love and lies, or will they again fail to listen to the other, when it comes to matters of the heart?
From a USA TODAY Bestselling Author comes a delightful paranormal erotic romance bundle! Immerse yourself back in the world of hot alpha men, feisty strong women, and never-ending action with this 3-book bundle. The Kategan Alphas Vol. 2 features the final 3 books in the series: Eternal Temptation (Darien & Cassie), Dark Seduction (Dmetri & Christine) and Tempting Whispers (Vanessa & Brayden). Volume 2 features books 4 - 6 in the sexy and heartwarming Kategan Alphas series! Save $$ when you buy the bundle! If you like hot, fast-paced books with enthralling heroes who possessively love their mates, then this series is for you! View The Kategan Alphas Vol. 1 to get started in this erotic, paranormal world at http://tinyurl.com/kr8v4za. ETERNAL TEMPTATION Fierce, troubled brother, Darien Kategan now leads his life in solitude. Shut off from his family, he lives only in a past that haunts his every breathing moment. But on the path to recover himself and move on with his life, he finds a woman hurt on his land. Something about this woman will not allow him to walk away. Instead he takes her in, even against his better judgment. A woman running from a horrible secret, Cassie Wilks has no place to run to and no family to help her. When she passes out on a troubled lykaen’s land, she decides she wants to learn more about this dark giant of a man. But time ticks by, bringing her dangerous secret closer and closer. Her attraction to the dark lykaen brings sensual passion into play and brings forth new experiences for both of them. As Cassie’s secret draws near, her passion pushes Darien to release his demons and embrace love. But will Darien be able to accept Cassie’s salvation before time is up? DARK SEDUCTION When a lunatic vampire escapes from prison, Dmetri Demidov is called in to help protect the Kategans. After all, out of all the Justicars he was the only one who used to have an intimate relationship with one of the Kategans. Dmetri’s grumbling over having to “babysit” the Kategans is quickly extinguished though when he meets the pack’s healer—Christine Barrows. Suddenly Dmetri can’t recall why he preferred chic, classy women when he sees Christine. She is rough, wild, and so sexy she drives him crazy. Having her once isn’t enough, and for whatever reason—he wants more. Christine Barrows has one goal in life—to mate with an alpha. When the sexy and exotic Russian vampire comes into the pack and chases after her, Christine doesn’t know what to do. She loves the way she feels in his arms, loves disarming his cool façade, but she can’t ignore her goal no matter how her heart feels. As the danger grows around the Kategans, Dmetri and Christine wind up in the middle of a dangerous game. Dmetri is forced by one short woman to question his feelings on the one thing he’s never experienced--love. TEMPTING WHISPERS In the final installment to the Kategan Alphas series, Vanessa Kategan is a desperate woman. She's got no job, no money, no place to go and to top it all off she's on the run. That is, until she runs into the irritating, thought-consuming vampire Brayden. Now he's forcing her to accept his help and she takes it even knowing her heart is on the line. The vampire can make her body burn one minute and her temper explode the next. Yet, she's drawn to him like no other. Brayden lives his life by codes. One of those codes is to protect others who can't protect themselves. When Vanessa Kategan rolls into his town he can't deny the urge to help her, nor can he keep his hands off of her. Soon, the walls are closing in on them. Time is running out, people are showing up dead, and Brayden's not sure if he can keep Vanessa safe through it all. ~Discover more books by T. A. Grey by signing up for my newsletter at www.tagrey.com.~
Celibacy: Curse of Catholicism by Mary Jo Berscheit Pdf
In this book author Mary Jo Berscheit challenges the Roman Catholic Church with its anti-Christ stand on clerical celibacy, forbidding of birth control, insistence on private confession, papal infallibility and declaring itself to be the “one true church” – with the resultant torment for mankind. Her words describe her experiences, and those of others, weighed against the teaching of God’s Word, the Bible. Or, even more specifically, words spoken to her by the Holy Spirit as when a Catholic priest announced from the altar at Sunday Mass: “Just remember this! Nobody but Roman Catholics go to Heaven!” And the Holy Spirit said authoritatively to her: “That’s not true!”
Celibacy in the Ancient World by Dale Launderville Pdf
Celibacy is a commitment to remain unmarried and to renounce sexual relations, for a limited period or for a lifetime. Such a commitment places an individual outside human society in its usual form, and thus questions arise: What significance does such an individual, and such a choice, have for the human family and community as a whole? Is celibacy possible? Is there a socially constructive role for celibacy? These questions guide Dale Launderville, OSB, in his study of celibacy in the ancient cultures of Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece prior to Hellenism and the rise of Christianity. Launderville focuses especially on literary witnesses, because those enduring texts have helped to shape modern attitudes and can aid us in understanding the factors that may call forth the practice of celibacy in our own time. Readers will discover how celibacy fits within a context of relationships, and what kinds of relationships thus support a healthy and varied society, one aware of and oriented to its cosmic destiny. Dale Launderville, OSB, is professor of theology at Saint John's University School of Theology 'eminary, Collegeville, Minnesota. He is the author of Piety and Politics: The Dynamics of Royal Authority in Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Eerdmans, 2003) and Spirit and Reason: The Embodied Character of Ezekiel's Symbolic Thinking (Baylor University Press, 2007).
An intimate, thought-provoking exploration of the mysteries of "star presence" in cinema "One does not go to see them act," James Baldwin wrote about the great iconic movie stars, "one goes to watch them be." It seems obvious . . . Where else besides the movies do you get to see other persons so intimately, so pressingly, so largely? Where else are you allowed such sustained and searching looks as you give to these strangers on the screen, whoever they really are? In life you try not to stare; but at the movies that's exactly what you get to do, two hours or more—safely, raptly, even blissfully. It's this sort of amplified, heightened, sometimes transcendent "seeing" that James Harvey explores in Watching Them Be. Marvelously vivid and perceptive, and impressively erudite, this is his take on how aura is communicated in movies. Beginning where Roland Barthes left off with the face of Greta Garbo and ending with Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar (and its inscrutable nonhuman star), Harvey moves nimbly and expertly through film history, celebrating actors and directors who have particularly conveyed a feeling of transcendence. From Marlene Dietrich to John Wayne to Robert De Niro, from Nashville to Jackie Brown to Masculine/Feminine and the implicitly or explicitly religious films of Roberto Rossellini and Carl Theodor Dreyer, this is one man's personal, deeply felt account of the films that have changed his life. They will also, Harvey suggests, change yours.
Kennedy, a psychologist, former priest, and a leading Catholic author and scholar, addresses one of the most compelling yet undiscussed issues in the Church: human sexuality. The Unhealed Wound is a penetrating and insightful study of the unresolved conflicts Catholics face regarding both their sexuality and spirituality, deep conflicts which grow more and more serious as they remain unaddressed within the Church. He astutely yet respectfully takes to task a faith that-despite the reality of erotic love as a natural and human aspect of life itself-condemns birth control, marriage for priests, and sex outside of marriage. The Unhealed Wound also examines the Church's formidable hierarchy, challenging those clerics who uphold papal edicts unthinkingly. Articulately postulating our need not only to understand but celebrate our own sexuality, this book will engender both controversy and heated dialogue among today's scholars, students, and believers of Catholicism.
From Celibate Catholic Priest to Married Protestant Minister by Stephen Joseph Fichter Pdf
From Celibate Catholic Priest to Married Protestant Minister: Shepherding in Greener Pastures describes a previously unstudied population of celibate Catholic priests who left the priesthood and eventually became married Protestant ministers. Stephen Fichter alternates from narrative to descriptive as he follows the lives of three of his study participants before, during, and after their dual transition. The descriptive sections include a history of religiously motivated celibacy and a review of the four leading forerunners in the field of Catholic clergy research. This scholarly study is the first time that these transitional clerics have candidly explained their difficult journeys of discernment. Religion, love, loss, and commitment are all analyzed in the context of this unique group of men, and the profiles in this book are memorable not only for the richness of their content, but also—and maybe most importantly—for their humanity. Lessons can be drawn for all people, especially those who have ever suffered a mid-life crisis.
