Are excuses or discouragement standing in between your creative self and your freedom of expression? In this short inspiring book mixed with story, poetry, songs, and photographs, you will be inspired to break down those barriers, reclaim your talents, and hone your gifts. Light a Creative Fire of your own to find the joyful fulfillment of fresh ideas, to more fully embrace your God-given gifts, and to more freely express who God created you to be.
It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down. The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. helicopters landed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around Ky La, both sides recruited children as spies and saboteurs. Le Ly was one of those children. Before the age of sixteen, Le Ly had suffered near-starvation, imprisonment, torture, rape, and the deaths of beloved family members—but miraculously held fast to her faith in humanity. And almost twenty years after her escape to America, she was drawn inexorably back to the devastated country and family she left behind. Scenes of this joyous reunion are interwoven with the brutal war years, offering a poignant picture of Vietnam, then and now, and of a courageous woman who experienced the true horror of the Vietnam War—and survived to tell her unforgettable story.
Kiev 1941, de Oekraïne is geplunderd en bezet door Duitse troepen. De bevolking verdwijnt in kampen en slavernij. Dynamo Kiev, de voetbalclub met het beste team van Europa, wordt gesloten. De spelers blijven echter als team bij elkaar en vernederen in 1942 een elftal, samengesteld uit de beste voetballers onder de Duitse bezetters. Een tweede wedstrijd wordt vastgesteld. Bij winst wacht de dood, waarschuwen de nazi's. Een zinderende strijd volgt, Kiev is toegestroomd, Dynamo wint. De gevolgen zijn verschrikkelijk.
