God Made Me from Spare Parts: Modern Parables for Old Souls God Made Me from Spare Parts is a collection of whimsical, modern parables that unfold between dream and reality—where spiritual fiction meets emotional truth, and answers rarely arrive as expected. A troubled narrator calls out to God for guidance and meets a disarmingly human deity who reframes mortality, self-worth, and distress with warmth and unexpected humor. A God who laughs. A God who crashed his plane when he was young. A God who doesn’t fix everything, but sits beside you. Written while grieving his father's death and stranded far from home, each of Tji’s parables offers a short meditation on fear, love, loss, faith, and the struggles of everyday life. With touching stories and striking illustrations, the book invites readers to pause, reflect, and see their own lives with refreshed compassion and clarity. Ideal for spiritual seekers, contemplative readers, and any...
Cry for the Children By Donna Deal When the people meant to protect a child become the source of fear, innocence is forced to grow up too soon. Cry for the Children opens into a world where family is fragile, security is temporary, and love is often tangled with absence, desperation, and fear. At its center are three young siblings whose lives begin to shift after their mother, burdened by limited means and impossible choices, is forced to place them in the care of others. What follows is not a single home or a single season of hardship, but a passage through places that promise shelter while quietly concealing danger. The book moves through rural Virginia with a vivid sense of place—farmhouses, cold rooms, kitchen baths, long days of labor, and the rough edges of country living. Yet the landscape is more than backdrop. It becomes part of the emotional weather of the story: isolating, unpredictable, and often haunted by the feeling that childhood...