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How do women react to and cope with life’s challenges? The stories in this collection answer that question in as many ways as there are unique individuals and situations. These women not only rose to the occasion but went beyond -- demonstrating strength, perseverance, passion, faith and the will to conquer what had been given them.
Camels Over the Sierra Nevada
In the early 1860’s Otto Esche, a San Francisco businessman, went to Northern Asia to buy several herds of Bactrian camels, then sent them to San Francisco. Julius Bandmann, another San Francisco businessman, purchased ten of these camels in 1860 with the goal of using them as pack animals. From 1861-64 he sent a caravan of nine camels each year over the Big Tree-Carson Valley Road to Nevada. The camels were used to transport salt, wood, and other merchandise to the silver mines in the Comstock Lode.
A Common Thread of Faith
Meet twelve women who discovered aging has given them additional opportunities to be of use in the world through their lives of faith with a higher power guiding their path. These women find themselves in an interesting time. Faith moves them as it did for others over the centuries, and they refuse to have it replaced with fear and anxiety—words which have taken root and bloomed during the pandemic and afterward. Fear and anxiety are not in the vocabularies of these women.
Crack the Whip
Carry-On
Abuse—it is such a small word but carries many gigantic meanings. First grade teacher Stephanie discovers nearly every kind of mistreatment in her California classroom. From desperate poverty to physical and mental abuse, Stephanie tries to combat the horrible problem with caring concern but the more seasoned teachers keep telling her to just teach and stop trying to change the world. To Stephanie the injustice is intolerable even her stressed out law student husband Carl fails to see why she wants to change the status quo. Stephanie feels she is caught at the end of a line in the human equivalent of a massive game of Crack the Whip.
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What do we need to pack in our daily life carry-on? Well, let’s start with God! We never know what each day will bring it might be smooth, joyful, or even easy. What if it's not? What if your shirt gets caught on every single door handle or you keep dropping your keys (or misplace them and you are already late)? What is life hits you with something bigger? When tragedy hits, or faith is tested, or disaster and chaos are ruling your day we can still find joy, laughter, hope in God. How? We must always remember to pack God with us in our daily carry on. God’s love, unchanging/unfailing character draws us to his peace, to trust in him, deepen our faith and cling to him even in the worst of situations. We must remember to pack him in our daily carry-on.
As we begin our journey, what’s in your carry-on?
