Tag: Tears

When Shepherds Weep Finding Tears of Joy for Wounded Pastors Ed 2


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English | ISBN: 1683592204 | 2019 | 176 pages | EPUB | 436 KB
The purpose of this book is to help pastors regain their spiritual perspective in the trials of ministry by understanding how suffering is used by God to develop the pastor and the church. It comes along wounded pastors to offer comfort and encouragement.

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Tears Become Rain Stories of Transformation and Healing Inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh


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English | October 10th, 2023 | ISBN: 1952692628 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 4.33 MB
32 mindfulness practitioners around the world reflect on encountering the extraordinary teachings of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, who passed away in January 2022, exploring themes of coming home to ourselves, healing from grief and loss, facing fear, and building community and belonging.

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Sad Happens A Celebration of Tears


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English | November 14th, 2023 | ISBN: 1668003457 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 52.18 MB
A beautifully illustrated, celebratory anthology exploring sadness-and the transformative power of tears.

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Sad Happens A Celebration of Tears [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BY9DB31C | 2023 | 6 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 345 MB
Author: Brandon Stosuy, Rose Lazar
Narrator: Brandon Stosuy, Deanna Anthony, Reena Dutt, Cynthia Farrell, Em Grosland, Nikki Massoud, George Newbern, André Santana, Eric Yang

A beautifully illustrated, celebratory anthology exploring sadness-and the transformative power of tears. When was the last time you cried? Was it because you were sad? Or happy? Overwhelmed, or frustrated? Maybe from relief or from pride? Was it in public or in private? Did you feel better afterwards, or worse? The reasons that we cry-and the circumstances in which we shed a tear-are often surprising and beautiful. Sad Happens is a collective, multi-faceted archive of tears that captures the complexity and variety of these circumstances. Brimming with humanity, this anthology is confirmation that sad happens-but so does joy, love, a sense of community, and a host of other emotions. By turns moving and affirming, Sad Happens is an emotional balm and visual delight.

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Melodrama After the Tears Victimhood, Subjectivity and the Melodramatic Mode


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English | 2015 | ISBN: 9089646736 | 352 pages | PDF | 3.7 MB
Melodrama, it is said, has expanded beyond the borders of genre and fiction to become a pervasive cultural mode. It encompasses distinct signifying practices and interpretive codes for meaning-making that help determine the parameters of identification and subject formation. From the public staging of personal suffering or the psychologization of the self in relation to consumer capitalism, to the emotionalization and sentimentalization of national politics, contributions to this volume address the following question: If melodramatic models of sense-making have become so culturally pervasive and emotionally persuasive, what is the political potential of melodramatic victimhood and where are its political limitations?

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Tears of Longing Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song


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English | 2002 | pages: 284 | ISBN: 0674008456, 0674012763 | PDF | 32,7 mb
Enka, a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the nihonjin no kokoro (heart/soul of Japanese). To older members of the Japanese public, who constitute enka’s primary audience, this music-of parted lovers, long unseen rural hometowns, and self-sacrificing mothers-evokes a direct connection to the traditional roots of "Japaneseness." Overlooked in this emotional invocation of the past, however, are the powerful commercial forces that, since the 1970s, have shaped the consumption of enka and its version of national identity. Informed by theories of nostalgia, collective memory, cultural nationalism, and gender, this book draws on the author’s extensive fieldwork in probing the practice of identity-making and the processes at work when Japan becomes "Japan."

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When A Black Woman Cries….Her Tears Says it all The Highs and Lows of Being A Black Woman by Raymoni Love


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English | MP3@192 kbps | 54 min | 75.4 MB
African American women, are complex, lovely human beings that demand respect with every step they take in life. I was looking over pictures in my family’s photo album and the transformation of black women from decade to decade amazes me tremendously because, in the midst of their change, they improved their lives through education, hard work, and strong values. Today, there are numerous issues that make black women cry: the loss of children, break down in marriages, cheating, and economic struggles. Black women cry because sometimes love or society impel them to make choices that deprecate their self-worth, health, and parental skills, which is consequential to the development and success of all black people. Black women must continue to cry because if black women stop crying and let anger force their hand, love would become recalcitrant to sensitive touches, children would become motherless, and the streets would have new members on the edge ready to destroy the soul of America and black men. So cry, black women – let your tears soak new meaning to the soil of this life, which will grow new flowers that will enlighten minds, so love and not violence or disrespect would rule the ground that produces loving black families. The #METOO movement significantly brings attention to women being sexually harassed and mistreated, and no woman has been more mistreated and harassed than a black woman.

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