Book of Boomers
After rewarding careers working with students and youth, Pete and Marie Madsen decide to use the free time of retirement to reconnect with the people and places that helped them become who they are today.
As members of the Baby Boomer generation, the Madsens prefer face-to-face conversations over texting and emoticons—and experiences in the natural world instead of virtual thrills. So, with newfound free time, the couple sets out to visit people from their past and to revisit some of the glorious natural wonders that make this country great.
A collection of stories within the larger narrative of their trip, each chapter focuses on a different person or place that influenced the Madsens or helped shape the trajectory of their lives.
From junior high friends to people they met while living abroad, the interviews document a wide range of perspectives and experiences of people born between 1945 and 1964—and demonstrate the value of putting down the iPhone and really listening when someone shares his or her story.
A compelling travelogue and fascinating window to a couple’s attempt to reconcile their pasts with the present, Book of Boomers will resonate with anyone from the postwar generation.
Moments in Time
It is time for you to step out of your impeding comfort zones and into God’s creation zone, to witness His essential lessons waiting for you to uncover. Discover through your spiritual senses what lies in wait for you and your own distinctive pleasures, in reading about these four author’s own visceral moments in time when they went exploring into God’s creation.
Moments in Time – A Collection of Spiritual Echoes from God’s Creation, is a collaboration of inspirational writings over a family’s lifetime, from their personal experiences witnessed while traveling through God’s creative nature and environment, to the comparisons they made of what they felt God was saying to them while in those moments.
The authors wish to take you on a journey with them and draw you into their thirty stories, helping you to evoke and compare your own sensory experiences alongside theirs; hopefully allowing the reader to bring back past cherished memories they may have long since forgotten.
A collection of past inspirational sayings from their previous writings, the authors set out to intertwine them with their present surroundings in God’s world today. Come join them in this journey to celebrate God’s wondrous creation and highlight its diverse beauty that is found there waiting for all of us to come visit and discover.
The Magic and the Mill
Just as flowing mill water glitters in the sunlight, this faith-based book flows through the years, helping to illuminate the lives of author Pete Madsen and his wife Marie’s past ancestors, taking us all back to a more reminiscent time of horse-drawn wagons, feed mills, and daily survival.
Pete and Marie’s lives were influenced by the loving reality of The Magic impacting the actions and lives of their ancestors, who originated in Europe and traveled to the United States to create a new life for themselves.
Based on the true-life stories surrounding a flour mill in Wisconsin, the two families precipitated various chains of events over centuries that culminated in the modern-day meeting of an unsuspecting couple in an obscure kitchen in Lewiston, Idaho.
This book illustrates how our actions of today become operative agents upon the lives of future generations of our families. These present actions lend great significance and credence to the subsequent historical stories to be revealed to tomorrow’s generations; our presence in the past will become known by the presents we leave behind for our descendants to contemplate in the future.
Pilgrimage into Faith
Journeying on a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to the Holy Land, a husband, wife and son make their way together to the country of Israel, in hopes of blending together their past familiar biblical stories, their present-day belief and faith in Jesus Christ, and their preconceived notions of what they will witness in modern-day Israel.
This book culminates into their combined adventure of past, present and future faith-based puzzle pieces, trying to piece them together into a cognizant picture they can come to accept and believe in. The Madsen family discovered a country of delectable foods, friendly people, modern amenities, excavated ruins, and historic biblical sites. Traveling with a Rock City Church group from Columbus, Ohio, composed of 15 fellow pilgrims, they spent eight days of a nine-day trip exploring the rich, ancient history that Israel possesses today within its current borders in the Middle East. This book describes the separate, personal experiences of three faith-based travelers and what anyone today would witness for themselves while visiting the fascinating locations found in the country of Israel - along with the family’s reflective thoughts and feelings expressed while visiting deeply moving and thought-provoking Bible locations, where Jesus spent a significant amount of His time here on earth.
We all can and do take our own pilgrimage walks into faith in our personal and ever-changing seasons of life. Sprinkled and interspersed in this book are spiritual reflections for the reader to contemplate and employ in their own daily walk. Come join these three sojourners as they explore the Holy Land and where it leads them (and you) on their enduring Spirit-filled journey into faith.
fORTY DAYS OF mEASURED WISDOM
Forty Days of Measured Wisdom is a collaboration of twelve artists’ works in conjunction with biblical scripture and written with spiritual inspiration by God's Holy Spirit. We hope and pray that the reader will be able to see and understand the knowledge presented to them for their meditative enrichment, within each day’s creative prompting, and discover the small, measured wisdom from which they may be able to apply to their everyday lives. Our only intention in writing this book was to listen to the small voice that welled up inside of our souls and to please the One Who helped us create this spirit-led project. We whole-heartedly enjoyed writing this book and hope that your venture into its pages will also bring you this same peace and joy within your own hearts. Happy reading and please take time to enjoy and discover its visual blessings as well, as you wonder and wander through this transformative book.
We Are Loved
We Are Loved, a faith-based children's book that comes from a child’s perspective of what they often “bring to the table” in a parent-child relationship. In writing this book I felt that children sometimes are not aware of what their role is and what they contribute (their purpose) in their family environments. Often times they feel the parent-child relationship is mostly one-sided and they don’t have much to offer to their parents in these relationships. This book portrays both serious and humorous scenarios that every parent can relate to when raising a child and the experiences they both will go through in their life-long journeys together. Comes in larger edition - 8x10 or smaller edition - 8x8.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCF9BZW9 or https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHP2YKBY