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Overcoming Life's Disappointments
Harold Kushner
Knopf
August 2006
On Sale: August 15, 2006
192 pages ISBN: 1400040574 EAN: 9781400040575 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Religion
From Harold S. Kushner, the author of When Bad Things
Happen to Good People, a book that shows us how to be
our best selves even when things don’t turn out as we had
hoped—that is, how we can overcome life’s
disappointments.
Kushner turns to the experience
of Moses to find the requisite lessons of strength and
faith. Moses towers over all others in the Old Testament: he
is the man on the mountaintop to whom God speaks with
unparalleled intimacy, and he leads his people out of
bondage. But he is also deeply human, someone whose soaring
triumphs are offset by frustration and longing: his people
ignore his teachings, he is denied entrance to the Promised
Land, his family suffers. But he overcomes.
From the life of Moses, Kushner gleans principles that can
help us deal with the problems we encounter. Through the
example of Moses’ remarkable resilience, we learn how to
weather the disillusionment of dreams unfulfilled, the pain
of a lost job or promotion, a child’s failures, divorce or
abandonment, and illness. We learn how to meet all
disappointments with faith in ourselves and the future, and
how to respond to heartbreak with understanding rather than
bitterness and despair. This is a book of spiritual wisdom—as practical as it is
inspiring.
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