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Publication
WestBowPress (2017), 172 pages
Description
Taking Ecclesiastes 3:1 as her focus, the author tells about teaching and learning in China, i.e., learning about the people, everyday life, education in China, the food, travel, and finally, learning about life through the eyes of a young Chinese student who has an open mind and talks freely.
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Carole Dailey takes her readers on a journey that leaves the heart full. She tells a story of a human heart reaching out to other hearts that are longing for more. The picture of China that she paints is a real one, past the brilliant natural beauty of its place as God's creation and taking a close
As she meanders through the memories of her time there the reader will be drawn in quickly by her short recollections, almost immediately wanting more. Dailey delivers with quick punches of heart and humor as she tells quick stories from her memories that all build up to a finale of finding herself in and among a people that she really never knows or truly understands yet has clearly grown to love. "A Time to Teach and a Time to Learn" will leave readers with small unanswered questions; tidbits of a life's journey left to wonderment -- the sense of mystery that can be found in a path not taken and forever lost. Such is life and it demonstrates the power that lies in the decisions that each of us make at every turn. Dailey has written a short and simple work that may very well place in the heart of the reader a burning curiosity of exactly what lies on the other end of the fork in the road combined with the sense of amazement at the understanding of serving a God who knows the answer.
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look at its fallen state, really an introspection of a fallen world: cold, wet, dreary and dirty, over-populated and filled to overflowing with people and things yet a place that the reader will see is full of souls -- creations of God each one, many longing to know their Creator.As she meanders through the memories of her time there the reader will be drawn in quickly by her short recollections, almost immediately wanting more. Dailey delivers with quick punches of heart and humor as she tells quick stories from her memories that all build up to a finale of finding herself in and among a people that she really never knows or truly understands yet has clearly grown to love. "A Time to Teach and a Time to Learn" will leave readers with small unanswered questions; tidbits of a life's journey left to wonderment -- the sense of mystery that can be found in a path not taken and forever lost. Such is life and it demonstrates the power that lies in the decisions that each of us make at every turn. Dailey has written a short and simple work that may very well place in the heart of the reader a burning curiosity of exactly what lies on the other end of the fork in the road combined with the sense of amazement at the understanding of serving a God who knows the answer.
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
172 p.; 5.5 inches
ISBN
151278172X / 9781512781724
Other editions
A Time to Teach and a Time to Learn by Carole Dailey (Paperback)