Download or read book Everything Happens for a Reason written by Kate Bowler and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi “Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.”—Bill Gates NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God’s disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward “blessing.” She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son. Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. The prospect of her own mortality forces Kate to realize that she has been tacitly subscribing to the prosperity gospel, living with the conviction that she can control the shape of her life with “a surge of determination.” Even as this type of Christianity celebrates the American can-do spirit, it implies that if you “can’t do” and succumb to illness or misfortune, you are a failure. Kate is very sick, and no amount of positive thinking will shrink her tumors. What does it mean to die, she wonders, in a society that insists everything happens for a reason? Kate is stripped of this certainty only to discover that without it, life is hard but beautiful in a way it never has been before. Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live. Praise for Everything Happens for a Reason “I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Her writing is naked, elegant, and gripping—she’s like a Christian Joan Didion. I left Kate’s story feeling more present, more grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone. And what else is art for?”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and president of Together Rising

Download or read book A Three Dog Life written by Abigail Thomas and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Abigail Thomas shares the story of how she started a new life after an accident left her husband brain damaged and institutionalized.

Download or read book I Thought There Would Be Cake written by Katharine Welby-Roberts and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EVER THOUGHT LIFE ISN’T TURNING OUT QUITE AS YOU EXPECTED? Growing up, Katharine Welby-Roberts imagined that being an adult was one big party. But depression, anxiety and crippling self-doubt led her to alienate herself from others. To replay events and encounters as nightmares. Occasionally, to be unable to leave the house. Aware of the cacophony of voices in her head, Katharine invites us to join her as she journeys to the depths of her soul. Here, with instinctive honesty and humour, she confronts the parts of her story that hinder her most. As she charts a course that offers ways of coping with everyday issues, we are encouraged to embrace our own self-worth. To recognize the value of our existence. To let ourselves be loved. Exactly as we are. ‘Brilliantly honest, often funny and wonderfully readable’ Martin Saunders, Youthscape ‘Wholly authentic in the face of suffering and struggle’ Will van der Hart, The Mind and Soul Foundation

Download or read book Everything Happens for a Reason written by Paul P. Enns and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone struggles to find explanations for their suffering. Dr. Paul Enns answers several tough, critical questions that all revolve around this central quandary of "why." Why does God allow suffering? Is suffering the result of judgment for sin? Are there even explanations for the terrors and trials we face? Dr. Enns brings answers from Scripture and from his experience as a professor and pastor, and a wounded one at that. More than anything, he brings comfort and clarity to people who are desperate for it.

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Download or read book Everything Happens for a Reason written by Mira Kirshenbaum and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2005-04-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can it really be true that everything happens for a reason? As amazing as it sounds, it is. There is significance in every event of our lives, from the most joyful and empowering to the inexplicable or seemingly unjust. In Everything Happens for a Reason, psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum encourages us to discover the meaning in what has happened to us, seeing these experiences as gifts, lessons, or opportunities. Building on more than twenty-five years of clinical research, Kirshenbaum helps us decode the confusing or unfortunate moments in our lives and find solace and strength.

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Download or read book Everything Happens for a Reason written by Keith Butler and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an attempt to give meaning to what appears to be inexplicable circumstances in life, many people say, Well, everything happens for a reason, you know. The truth of the matter is that everything does happen for a reason! In this book, Bishop Butler explores the truths found in the Parable of the Sower, uncovering the secrets God has hidden for you, including the following: What God does, how He does it and why What Satan does, how he does it and why What you should do and why These truths will give you tools for avoiding self-inflicted wounds and strategies to use to deflect the five tools Satan uses affliction, persecution, the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things to try and keep the Word from becoming deeply planted in your life. You can live a lifestyle that pleases God! The Word gives you an answer to overcoming every problem you face in life! You can live a life of victory!

Download or read book Everything Happens for a Reason written by Suzane Northrop and published by NorthStar2. This book was released on 2002 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed trance medium Suzane Northrop examines the relationship among those who have passed over, the soul, and the lessons to be learned. She shows unequivocally that each person is here to complete a particular portion of what will be a never-ending journey of the soul.

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Download or read book Everything Happens for a Reason written by Kavita Daswani and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty, wry look at contemporary marriage and relationships, from the author of For Matrimonial Purposes.

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