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Facing the Storm: Meditations and Prayers
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You will love this updated version of Eddie’s best-selling book of encouraging and inspirational thoughts for the day, featuring a fresh design and full colour illustrations. Each short meditation is based on a suggested Bible reading and is accompanied by a prayer that is both poetic and down to earth. Eddie encourages readers to hang on to their faith as they wait for the storm to pass. He reminds us that we can be confident that the creator of the wind is always stronger than the wind itself.
You will love this updated version of Eddie’s best-selling book of encouraging and inspirational thoughts for the day, featuring a fresh design and full colour illustrations. Each short meditation is based on a suggested Bible reading and is accompanied by a prayer that is both poetic and down to earth. Eddie encourages readers to hang on to their faith as they wait for the storm to pass. He reminds us that we can be confident that the creator of the wind is always stronger than the wind itself.
- GenresChristian
89 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
15 people want to read
About the author
Eddie Askew
31 booksAlfred Dennis (Eddie) Askew, writer, artist and former general director of the Leprosy Mission (TLM).
Eddie was the only child of parents who were committed members of the Salvation Army. After national service with the Royal Navy, he trained as a teacher at St John's College, York, combining art, a subject at which he excelled, with English and theology.
An exhibition on leprosy which he saw in a church while on holiday left a deep impression on him. It was then that he decided to apply to the Leprosy Mission for overseas service. In 1950, one month after getting married, he and his wife Barbara set sail for India, where they spent the next 15 years.
In 1965 Eddie returned to Britain, where he took up the post of executive secretary at TLM's office in London. In 1974 he became general director of TLM.
Inspired by his travels and his Christian faith, Eddie found an outlet for his creativity in painting and poetry. A Silence and a Shouting, his first book of meditations and artwork, was published in 1982. It was followed, over the years, by 16 others, and the sale of his books and paintings raised around £2.5m for TLM.
He retired in 1987 to concentrate on his writing and painting but he retained his commitment to, and interest in, the work of TLM. From 1998 until his death he was its vice-president, and in 2000 he was awarded an OBE.
Eddie was the only child of parents who were committed members of the Salvation Army. After national service with the Royal Navy, he trained as a teacher at St John's College, York, combining art, a subject at which he excelled, with English and theology.
An exhibition on leprosy which he saw in a church while on holiday left a deep impression on him. It was then that he decided to apply to the Leprosy Mission for overseas service. In 1950, one month after getting married, he and his wife Barbara set sail for India, where they spent the next 15 years.
In 1965 Eddie returned to Britain, where he took up the post of executive secretary at TLM's office in London. In 1974 he became general director of TLM.
Inspired by his travels and his Christian faith, Eddie found an outlet for his creativity in painting and poetry. A Silence and a Shouting, his first book of meditations and artwork, was published in 1982. It was followed, over the years, by 16 others, and the sale of his books and paintings raised around £2.5m for TLM.
He retired in 1987 to concentrate on his writing and painting but he retained his commitment to, and interest in, the work of TLM. From 1998 until his death he was its vice-president, and in 2000 he was awarded an OBE.
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