The church must fulfill her purpose and ordained destiny. And men shall not be allowed to do respite to the Spirit of grace by whom we are sealed unto salvation. Blake's story follows him into life outside the orphanage and focuses on how he copes and overcomes the circumstances of his shattered life in his search of love, happiness, and the place where he fits best in the world.ĭescription : Too precious is the blood of the Lamb Jesus that was slain to be trodden under the foot. All his belongings are packed into the one flimsy suitcase. When he graduates from high school, the orphanage sends him out into the world with a Bible, a twenty-dollar bill, and a please-don't-rain cardboard suitcase.
The story follows Blake through his years in the orphanage and how the orphanage helps prepare him for life in the outside world. At the age of fourteen, Blake is placed in an orphanage in Western North Carolina. The instability of foster care makes it impossible for Blake to put down roots. Not having a mother or father to intervene in his well-being leaves him vulnerable to abuse. Blake is powerless and at the mercy of his caregivers. He experiences both good and bad foster care. Blake is placed in three different foster homes over a six-year period. Blake's story highlights the good and bad experiences that he lives through in foster care and later in an orphanage. The Welfare Department intervenes, and the siblings are split up and scattered. In 1950, eight-year-old Blake Davis is thrown into foster care after his mother dies and his father is unable to care for him and his siblings. He is forced to put the shattered pieces of his life together and move forward through his tears, grief, fears of the unknown, feelings of hopelessness and emptiness, and the loss of dreams. The story highlights the emotions he feels when he loses everything in life that matters to him. Publisher by : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.ĭescription : Please-Don't-Rain Suitcase is a fictional novel that tells the story of the hardships and adjustments that Blake Davis experiences when he becomes an orphan. Both volumes refer the common and scientific names back to a list of 190 pertinent authoritative sources." - publisher description. Volume 2 indexes the scientific names of those species, followed by listings of all the common names applied to them. Volume 1 presents, in alphabetical order, all the historical common names of plants recorded in Great Plains flora, herbaria, and botanical collections, together with the scientific names of species to which those common names have been applied. Interspersed with scientifically-correct botanical line drawings, the entries are written in standard ICBN format, making this a useful volume for scholars as well as lay enthusiasts alike. Each common name is accompanied by a definitive scientific name with references and authority information. Author Elaine Nowick has drawn from sources as diverse as Linnaeus, Lewis and Clark, and local university extension publications to compile the gamut of practical, and often fanciful, common plant names used over the years. Hwain's wish is for the stories contained in this book to reflect light onto other women just as it did for Hwain.ĭescription : "Containing thousands of entries of both vernacular and scientific names of Great Plains plants, the literature that informs this exhaustive listing spans nearly 300 years. Therefore, this book is Hwain's gift to her mother. Hwain cannot forget the stories of her mother's past, nor leave them unrecorded. She influenced and taught Hwain, spiritually and socially.
Hwain's mother gave Hwain life and then gave her own life to Hwain. The story is a mingling and converging of two realities, the hard lives of the women of the Bible and the history Korean women are born into. Blossom of the Golden Bell is a story about Hwain's mother. The second is the long history of Korean women born into a system of Confucian belief. The first is the hard reality of the lives of women in the Bible. Korean Christian women build their lives on two foundations. In these stories of women, we see a reflection of ourselves and our own reality-physical, spiritual, and social.Like these women, Hwain's mother possessed deep faith in her Lord. Description : The Bible has many stories about women.
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