From Trouble to High Places
Meditations For Women Who Are
So Ready to Cross the Bridges That Lead to Joy!
...as the prisms of belief in the WomanSpace are innumerable... the passionate potential of a woman to overcome anything and everything is awesome!
"Inside each of us is an ever-changing, emotionally vibrant kaleidoscope made of the colorful energy of our core-beliefs. Twinkling like so many stars and glistening brightly and alive, each belief sends forth electric-like impulses that contact our thoughts and cause us to act or not to act... to be ... or not to be. Each belief we have holds the power to light our lives in its own way and after its own fashion. Some are bright and lovingly-charged, and some are ugly. Changing all the time, ...some multiplying... some self-deleting... some acting up and getting inflamed... demanding attention... some working miracles... some hindering them. Each belief we have holds equal power, at any given time, to determine our steps... to order our days... to create our reasons and our thoughts and our actions and our reality."
A book for women seeking a "better way" to live their lives ,
From Trouble to High Places encourages us to
re-engineer the innermost structure of our lives - our beliefs,
our life-philosophies, our self-images, and our perceptions of our experiences - under the direction of our all-wise spirit-woman.
Raising Up Queens
Loving Our Daughters Loud and Strong
Book Description: Meditations, Affirmations. 153pp.
Published by Innisfree Press, Inc.
Copyright © 2000 Esther Davis-Thompson
"Remember the dreams you had for your daughter before she was born? Remember the joy you felt about her new life? Remember how she jump-started your heart and made you believe, made you vow, that you'd find a way, make a way, for her Good, and yours, to happen?...
"Clothing ourselves in new hope and new faith, and in new strength and new love. Gathering up our spirits for a revival with our Creator. Stepping over our own bodies mortified by tiredness. Jumping over rivers of our own murky fear. Leaping from one mountaintop of new faith to another, to avoid the pitfalls of self-doubt, self-pity, and self-effacement. Making, for ourselves, a lovely Queen-crown of High Thoughts to walk where-ever. Could it be that this is the only way we will get to meet our daughters on the good road of peace and abundant life?"
Raising Up Queens speaks to every mother's desire to guide her daughter to a place of walking out her own unique rendition of a happy, healthy, purposeful and productive life.
MotherLove: Reinventing a Good and Blessed
Future For Our Children
Book Description: Meditations, Affirmations. 192pp.
Published by Lioness' Papers Press, Inc.
Copyright © Esther Davis-Thompson --- 1999, 2008.
May 2008 - A NEW EDITION of MOTHERLOVE !
"Come, let us reason together. How can we grow our children strong? Grow our daughters like beautiful sunflowers, worthy and wonderful, with faces full of sun! Grow our sons like sturdy oaks with the bendability of willows --- able to catch the wind, withstand and ride. Daughters and sons walking in the Wisdom of the Spirit."
We shall teach them Love songs. And Praise songs. And War songs. And Peace songs. We shall worship with them. We shall preach to them. We shall pray to God with them..."
MotherLove: Reinventing A Good And Blessed Future For Our Children issues a call to every mother to get passionate about raising our children.
Books
Reviews For
MotherLove: Reinventing A Good And Blessed Future For Our Children
Esther Davis-Thompson offers beautifully lyrical reflections on motherhood in the African-American community."
---Publisher's Weekly
"This book is a treasure-trove."
--- Lucia Herndon, Columnist, the Philadelphia Inquirer
Impressive... MotherLove reminds us we are our best thing."
--- Nikki Giovanni, poet
"Powerful and nurturing."
--- Barnett Wright, Philadelphia Tribune
"Rich with affirmation, common sense, and wisdom about recovering one's spiritual 'motherspace' ...a gift to women trying to mother well."
--- The Other Side
"An empowering compilation that feeds the spirit and nourishes the soul."
--- Black Issues Book Review
"As a teacher and mother of ten children, Davis-Thompson knows of what she speaks. MotherLove is a personal passionate vision for renewing the emotional and spiritual lives of children, families, and communities."
--- Vital signs (National Black Women's Health Project)
“The author of this spirit-filled book has created a meditation on motherhood that comforts, challenges and cherishes us. We owe her husband and ten children a debt of gratitude for sharing her with us.”
--- Pearl Cleage, Author and Playwright
“An empowering collection of reflections, quotations and affirmations.”
--- EBONY Magazine
“Esther has done an excellent job inspiring and cajoling us to be better parents, teachers, mentors to our children”
--- Jawanza Kunjufu, Author
Reviews For
Raising Up Queens:
Loving Our Daughters
Loud and Strong
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Category:!!! Very Good
Author:!! Good
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Style: !!!! Exceptional
Production:!!!!! Must Read
The Washington Informer
Who would know best about rearing children than a mother of ten?
Kansas City Globe
In the inspiring work, Esther reaches out to every mother not only to save but to celebrate her daughters as they take root...
Hutton Publications
Any woman who can mother ten children while keeping her sense of humor deserves our admiration...
Midwest Book Review
In Raising Up Queens, author Esther Davis-Thompson lays a foundation for mothering African-American daughters which is personal, spiritual, inspirational, and responsible. Through chapters that move the reader from Pain to Healing, from Fear to Courage, from Despair to Belief, Raising Up Queens will enable the reader top get to the core of what it is to bring up their daughters to truly realize their personal and spiritual potential; to survive the crisis of violence and social neglect that so hallmark today's society; to enhance judgement and ife-goal planning; and to become superlative adults and loving mothers in their own time. Raising Up Queens is an excellent and timely addition to parenting and Black Studies reading lists and reference collections.
May 2008 Release!
Copyright © 2006 Esther Davis-Thompson
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