Carol Lynn Pearson

A simple, small, beautiful gift book, reclaiming the Creator for everyone, reminding us of the Mystery, the Mythic, the Poetic by presenting 125 quotes from the best minds throughout history. What I Know about God is not just for believers in the Christian God, but for people finding spirituality in different ways--easily digestible and offers hope. Carl Jung, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Buckminster Fuller, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Emerson, Van Gogh, and many others, including representatives of all the major religions, share remarkable insights that create a conversation about the Divine that is both inviting and uniting. How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. --Saint Thomas AquinasThe very word "God" suggests care, kindness, goodness. We give God the name of good: it is only by shortening it that it becomes God. --Henry Ward BeecherTo love another person is to see the face of God. --Victor HugoI cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. --Voltaire

The delightful tale told in the musical "My Turn on Earth" is presented here in storybook fashion with full-page, charming illustrations. Barbara and her friends, happy in their heavenly home, are sent to earth on a treasure hunt, assigned to find and bring back the most valuable thing that exists. Clues float down to them signed by their brother Jesus, helping them to learn right from wrong, learn that they each are writing their own story and they can erase mistakes through repentance. And also how to avoid mistakes by learning to do to someone else only what you would like them to do to you. Does Barbara find the treasure she came for? A little twist in the ending will bring you and your young listeners a smile and perhaps a tear. Based on the popular musical play, "My Turn On Earth," with Script and Lyrics by Carol Lynn Pearson and Music by Lex DeAzevedo.

In her best-selling "Goodbye, I Love You," Carol Lynn Pearson shared the moving story of her life with her homosexual husband Gerald--their Mormon temple marriage, the birth and raising of four children, their mutual anguish in realizing his orientation had not changed, their divorce and ongoing friendship, and her caring for him as he died from AIDS in her home. In "No More Goodbyes," Pearson revisits the challenging subject of religious people relating to their gay loved ones who are often condemned by their church and--many believe--by God. Through stories gathered from the microcosm of Mormonism, it becomes clear how this emotional earthquake affects families of all faiths.