Abbey: 223 books

Having doubt is part of the way we try to make sense of life. However, doubt also can become a heavy, dark cloud that obscures the light of the sun, casting shadows upon everything we do, believe, and feel. Faith is the antidote for life’s doubts—the wind that blows away the grey clouds, allowing...

Worrying consumes more time and energy than most of us are willing to acknowledge. To be sure, life presents each of us with things we need to be concerned about. However, worry is excessive concern about life’s challenges. It is the companion of fear and has the crippling capacity to take control...

Envy is one of the more unpleasant aspects of the human psyche, and if we’re honest, we are all colored by its sickly hue from time to time. We also know that emotional, physical, and spiritual illness can arise from unbridled envy—in ways both trivial and tragic. Left unchecked, envy can give...

This book offers a view of eating that is quite different from the standard. It declares that food is neither good nor bad; it’s mostly neutral. Neutral, however, is not what our attitude about food should be, suggests the author. In making our food choices and establishing our eating habits, it is to our benefit to take charge.

Gwion Williams is playing a scrub baseball game with his friends after school when his friend, Kerry, disappears while chasing a long fly ball. Soon after, a strange boy, strangely dressed, appears and offers to help Gwion find his missing friend. Gwion soon learns that his friend has been kidnaped by...

The five authors of Finding Healing in Times of Grief and Loss all speak to the ways that we can enter into the experience of grief and come through with hearts and spirits renewed by the cherished memories of the ones we’ve lost. Whether the passing of a dear one is recent or further in the past,...

Book offers inspirational and practical advice for daily situations.

Few things affect a family’s everyday life like the presence of an illness like cancer. Whether it’s a grandparent, another family member, a teacher or neighbor or friend, children especially experience confusion, fear and misunderstanding. This book will help kids cope with the presence of cancer...

Book offers inspirational and practical advice for daily situations.

Children’s anger can be upsetting and unsettling to the grown-ups in their worlds. We’ve all dealt with tantrums and pouting at the least convenient times. If only we could flip a switch on that anger and restore calm to our homes and classrooms. In Being Mad: A Book about Anger. . . Just for...

Those long summer days and weekends spent with our best friends can be among the happiest memories of childhood. But the art of making friends isn’t a skill that is taught in most schools. Teaching children how to be good friends and cultivate healthy friendships is the work of parents, teachers,...

This little book, with its wise elfin characters, is designed to help you find ways of connecting with yourself, with others, with God. A few moments alone with Loneliness Therapy, and you will realize that if you seek, you will find. You’ll find that you’re really not alone at all!

Whether you’re feeling chronically bogged down in worry of are facing an immediate crisis, Worry Therapy can help. This little guide offers practical hints for “worryproofing” your life, as well as insights into deeper issues.

The author of this new, illustrated guide tells us there are a number of ways to respond when trouble knocks at the door of one’s heart. Reaching out, reaching up, and reaching within can bring balm to ease the pain. Let this book of support and inspiration point the way toward a better day.