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About This Candle Grace is a mystery to me. I'm always searching for definitions, reading others' experiences and words, but I've yet to understand: What is grace? Maybe I'm trying too hard to use my brain. Just the word itself sounds feminine: receptive, divine, fluid, gentle, powerful, truthful, indomitable. Right now, what I do know is that I have been called to live with grace. I dream of the word -- it appears in my readings and cards -- and so I dance with a mystery I don't understand but nevertheless must follow. Wheee! I created this candle to learn more about it, and change the quote whenever I find a new one that makes me pause and say "Yes." May grace illumine your soul as well. —Carla Blazek, creator, zena moon |
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Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for Grace zena moon sells books, CDs and DVDs in association with Amazon.com. To order, click on the item's title or image, then add it to your Amazon shopping cart. Orders are then filled and shipped by Amazon. Send us your recommendations for this page--we may post them here.
Last updated 3/24/2005
1. The Unmistakable Touch of Grace
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From Amazon.com: In The Unmistakable Touch of Grace, bestselling author Cheryl Richardson (Take Time for Your Life and Life Makeovers) moves away from advice about tangible topics, and shares with readers her twenty-year journey of discovery about how the benevolent energy of the Universe, which she calls "the unmistakable grace" works to shape our lives and guide us towards our ultimate spiritual destiny. According to Richardson, there is a Higher Power that has our best interest at heart and uses grace to guide us to better understand the Divine Plan. The goal of this book is to help readers become more aware of how grace touches their lives, and to teach them to be able to better recognize the touch of grace and to surrender to it so that "the right doors will open to support you in fulfilling tour life’s purpose."
There are no coincidences, Richardson writes. Everything and everyone we experience comes into our lives for a reason and are blessings in disguise. Understanding those reasons and viewing life from a spiritual perspective is at the heart of her message. In addition to revealing personal examples from her own life, Richardson shares many other stories to reveal how grace can make dramatic, positive differences in our lives once it is perceived and surrendered to. To aid the reader in those steps, Richardson provides a wealth of exercises at the end of each chapter. She calls such exercises experiments, and encourages readers to perform them with others so that everyone involved can witness their dramatic effects on each other. She also provides additional resources that readers can use to further their self-discovery.
2. Small Graces : The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life
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From Amazon.com: Kent Nerburn writes graciously and gracefully about life's smallest and most-taken-for granted joys. As he says, "We dream our lives in grand gestures, but we live our lives in small moments." In this beautifully eloquent book, Nerburn shares brief stories that illuminate those moments, showing us the true joy available in our ordinary, everyday lives. A worthy companion piece to the author's widely praised Simple Truths : Clear & Gentle Guidance on the Big Issues of Life and full of gentle wisdom, Small Graces show us how to look again at the gifts that abound in our world - from the magic of clouds to the eloquence of silence. "We do not all live holy lives," Nerburn writes. "But we live in a world alive with holy moments." Small Graces is a book to keep nearby, to read and re-read, and to give away. This small book is itself one of life's small graces.
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From Amazon.com: Ordinary Grace is the most hopeful book for the human condition that I have read in years. Kathleen Brehony is a gifted storyteller and brilliant social scientist who through her stories of the extraordinary compassion of ordinary people in caring for others she demonstrates that mankind is innately good. She takes us up close and personal in her interviews with these "ordinary" people and we find what we have often forgotten in ourselves, that goodness and expressing our goodness is a part of our basic nature. We naturally feel compassion for our fellow man and we long for opportunities to express it. Ordinary Grace shows us the way through numerous examples of the opportunities that others have found and the opportunities that are available to us each day in each moment. She says "Grace is always present; it surrounds us at every moment of everyday in profoundly moving experiences and in small, almost imperceptible ways". Brehony skillfully engages our minds and our hearts to guide us there. This book will hold your attention, bring you to tears, make you feel good about yourself and the world and will inspire you live in grace. I have given several copies as gifts and have recommended it to friends and clients.
1. Passion [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
Original Release Date: 2002
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From Amazon.com: To call Passion a pivotal recording in the development of world music would be a significant understatement. What makes Passion so undeniably important is its global reach and expert handling of what could've easily become polyglot babble. Vocalists Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Youssou N'Dour, and Baaba Maal bring strong Middle Eastern and African voices to the project, and Balkan textures come via the ney flute and doudouk. But Gabriel is the glue, offering electronic ambient flows between the multiple streams. Gabriel also brings something even less tangible: an awesome visual imagination that takes often seamless sounds and makes them impress the listener with picturelike colors and phrasing. This is, however, far more than an ambient global mix. The intertwined rhythms stand out, both on their own and as brushstrokes on a larger canvas. Never mind that Passion helped launch North American careers for N'Dour and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan--this is a stellar musical achievement by any standard.
2. Amazing Grace : The Complete Recordings [LIVE]
Original Release Date: 1999
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From Amazon.com: This Rhino
re-release of
Amazing Grace is at least as much a work of love as of
marketing. The sound is beefier and clearer, but most importantly, the two-day
church sessions are included. So, there's much more church (specifically,
Reverend James Cleveland's marvelous orating) on the record, as well as
contemporaryisms such as a cool organ rendition of George Harrison's "My Sweet
Lord." Originally released as a double LP in 1972,
Amazing Grace cracked the Billboard Top 10 on its release,
making it one of the best selling gospel records of all time. Grace was
recorded in a large Baptist church with an ultra-enthusiastic audience in the
pews, a full, funky band, and the Southern California Community Choir under
the direction of Franklin's mentor, Cleveland. Her voice is melismatic and
intensely emotional, yet pure and controlled, as if she is channeling the Holy
Ghost. Franklin's father, the brilliant preacher Reverend C.L. Franklin, makes
a brief, proud appearance, remarking, "She has never left the church!" Other
highlights include the beautiful "Wholy Holy," an 11-minute, heart-stopping
"Amazing Grace," and Inez Andrews's stirring "Mary, Don't You Weep." Way more
than a return-to-the-roots record, this set is an inspired gospel-soul workout
that arguably showcases Franklin's strongest singing ever.
3. Grace
Original Release Date: 1994
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From Amazon.com: Resembling at times a soft-sung Robert Plant, Buckley was an intuitive vocalist capable of dizzying arabesques and choir-boy sweetness. He is joined here by a tight band for 10 tracks highlighting his stylistic range--Pearl Jam bluesy on "Eternal Life," impossibly serene on Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," art-school noisy on "So Real," Led Zep daring on "Mojo Pin." Unorthodox, this was the debut of '94.
(2004) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: When a movie can blend passionate social concern with good old-fashioned suspense, it must be doing something right. Maria Full of Grace scores high on both counts. Maria is a Colombian teenager who, for a large paycheck, agrees to be a mule for drug-runners: she has to swallow dozens of thumb-sized capsules of heroin and smuggle them into New York. This debilitating process is painstakingly described, and of course not everything goes as planned when Maria and her fellow mules land in America. Director Joshua Marston is working on a low budget, which explains the film's narrow, single-minded focus--but this may be a strength, not a weakness. The trump card is the lead performance of Catalina Sandrino Moreno, who won awards at the Seattle and Newport Film Festivals. Her empathetic face carries us along on Maria's journey, and humanizes a problem that is too easily relegated to a headline.
2. What the Bleep Do We Know!?
(2004) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: The unlikeliest cult hit of 2004 was What the Bleep Do We Know!?, a lecture on mysticism and science mixed into a sort-of narrative. Marlee Matlin stars in the dramatic thread, about a sourpuss photographer who begins to question her perceptions. Interviews with quantum physics experts and New Age authors are cut into this story, offering a vaguely convincing (and certainly mind-provoking) theory about... well, actually, it sounds a lot like The Power of Positive Thinking, when you get down to it. Talking heads (not identified until film's end) include JZ Knight, who appears in the movie channeling Ramtha, the ancient sage she claims communicates through her (other speakers are also associated with Knight's organization). What she says actually makes pretty good common sense--Ramtha's wiggier notions are not included--and would be easy to accept were it not being credited to a 35,000-year-old mystic from Atlantis.
(1991) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: This touching, 1991 Canadian film directed by Cynthia Scott takes the unusual step of casting nonprofessional actors, and the gamble pays off very well indeed. The story concerns eight elderly women whose tour bus breaks down driving through the wilderness. While waiting to be rescued, they find an abandoned house and look for food. The days and nights they end up spending away from civilization prove restorative to their spirits as each character gets an opportunity to tell her life story. The ensemble cast, as it turns out, essentially plays themselves in the film: the tales they tell are truly their own. A very talky, slowly paced production, it's best to get into the gentle rhythm of Scott's design and let the experience flow in the same way it does for the performers. | ||||||||
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