Look at It This Way
Straightforward Wisdom to Put Life in Perspective
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Each person has his or her own particular way of looking at life: a kind of grid that helps readers process whatever comes their way. Though this grid can be a helpful tool, far too often it is a weight around the neck. So what can be done about it? How can readers change their perspectives–replacing the grid that drags them down with one that equips them to face life’s challenges and live victoriously?
In Look at It This Way, author and speaker Jan Silvious explores, in-depth, vital truths that can help Christians reframe the way they think: breaking them out of their self-pity, anger, depression, anxiety and hopelessness, and equipping them to deal with the events, circumstances and people in their lives in a healthy and positive way. Jan highlights such key truths as “Whatever happens, it’s one event in a lifetime of events,” “For every choice there is a consequence,” “God isn’t angry with you,” “The last chapter has not been written,” and eight others.
Deeply rooted in Scripture, these valuable insights will give readers hope and real help for managing their thinking, showing how they can, at last, move forward with the courageous and grace-filled life God intended them to live.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Women stuck in a rut get a bracing pep talk from this unpretentious Christian self-help manual. The author, a speaker and seminar leader at Moody Bible Institute, addresses a litany of women's problems--domineering husbands, guilt feelings about children (living and aborted) and aging parents, people who betray confidences, wounding slights from co-workers, resentment of seemingly perfect sisters-in-law, wanting to be a lady but feeling like a tramp--and draws her sermonettes equally from Bible stories and homespun anecdotes about such matters as rude waiters, balky appliances and interior-decorating disasters. She expounds a sketchy psychology based on a"grid" made up of childhood experiences, people we know, emotional makeup and life events, which sometimes gets"bent" and needs"straightening." Her advice, though, is practical: learn the right ways to ask for what you want, don't be controlling and meddlesome (especially with adult children and their inappropriate fiancees), don't fret over might-have-beens, remember that"if something doesn't work, change it." Above all, let go of the past, for"the cheerleader has to put up her pompoms" and"take her place with other mortal women at the supermarket." But women feeling trapped in lives not quite of their choosing can, with God's help, change their fate, choose constructive action over self-pity, abjure their"impossibility mindsets" and discover their"unlimited potential for moving on." Silvious is not a brilliant or profound writer, but she has a feel for the psychological predicaments of everyday life that many readers will appreciate.
