Bøker av Elizabeth Upton

John Callahan is a good man with a sinister past-and his past will not let him live in peace. Against the odds, he matures from a teenage Belfast street thug and an IRA killer to a happily married man and expectant father. Then fate snatches away his wife, his unborn child-and his world-in the flash of a tragic accident for which he feels responsible. Years later, just as he begins to find peace and serenity again as a monk in a rural Irish monastery, a vindictive superior banishes the handsome young priest to a derelict parish in New York City. Ripped away from his quiet, cloistered life, Father Callahan is plunged back into a dangerous cacophony of filth, corruption, and crime. Will he remain a celibate priest, or will he abandon the life of faith for more sensual pleasures? Will he remain a good man or return to the dark criminal life he once knew so well? In this exciting, insightful novel, Best-Selling Writer Elizabeth Upton puts readers inside the mind of a passionate, wounded, and angry young priest as he struggles to live in a state of grace among new friends and enemies in a foreign land.

In this book, Elizabeth Upton has written a collection of insights that are simple, authentic, and profound. First, they lead the reader to stop, ponder, sit, and reflect. "Being Real," "Life Needs Fixing," and "Bored to Death," among other chapters, tell us, "It is always time to Gather Your Nerve and Live." The author says, "Listen and pause to the life of your mind. Listen and pause to your heart beating in your body with your every step; that offers you a deeper understanding of who you are." Among Upton's defining life experiences, she was a nun in a convent for twenty years and conquered a mysterious disease twice. Her deep abiding compassion allows the author to walk with the reader during our most challenging experiences.

Today's busy, noisy, and fast-paced world can be full of challenges that stress us out and bog us down, sometimes to the point of leading us down a path of despair, desolation, and depression. 'The Healing Swords of Love and Innocence: Be Brave Be Bold This Is Your Moment' is a complete guide to discovering how to slow down, reset the mind, and begin to achieve the love, innocence, peace of mind, and resilience we once enjoyed as children. Based upon the author's years and experiences as a contemplative nun, a probation officer, and a counselor, author Elizabeth Upton shows us how to achieve clarity in order to live the magnificent life we were meant to live right now.

The demons never tire. They cling to John Callahan and, like the banshees of Irish legend, they fill his heart with wails of despair. No matter how he tries to live an exemplary life, the former IRA killer is haunted by memories of the horrors he has suffered - and those he has inflicted in return. Not the monastic life, not the vows of priesthood, not the move from Ireland to New York City have brought him peace.In this second novel in the series by Elizabeth Upton, Callahan has resigned the priesthood in the hope of living a simpler life as a professor at New York University. However, his promise to a distraught colleague - who soon turns up dead - plunges him into another mystery alongside his friend Ronald Casey, a detective with the NYPD.Who would want to kill a professor of neuroscience? What is contained in the briefcase that she has guarded, quite literally, with her life? Soon it seems clear that Dr. Shannon Grey Feather had discovered a cure for addiction and several complex brain disorders. That is a medical breakthrough worth millions - and one worth killing for.Once again confronted by murder's cruelty and life's injustices, Callahan must find a killer while coming to terms with his own criminal past. He longs for true peace and genuine love, but before he can hope for a bright future he must revisit his dark past - where those demons dwell.

Being a human means living in a cycle of suffering and joy, failure and success, rejection and acceptance. Yet, finding the strength to maintain that faith, motivation, and gained wisdom requires us to accept that much of life is mysterious and beyond our control or understanding. To find true peace and happiness, we must give up the constant frustration of trying to know the unknowable or control the uncontrollable. "The Mystery of Time is Who You Are" is a deep and profound meditation on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, which begins with the words, "To everything, there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven." "Getting on with life takes a lifetime," but accepting time as our teacher and embracing the present moment as our most precious gift allows us to experience life fully for all the days of our lives. This book will soothe your soul, clarify your vision, energize your mind, and anchor your heart with satisfying and comforting answers for a lifetime.