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    Overcoming Life's Disappointments

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

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    About this audiobook

    From Harold S. Kushner, the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an audiobook 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.

    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 an audiobook of spiritual wisdom--as practical as it is inspiring.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 15, 2006
    ISBN9780739333204
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    • 4/5
      Kushner, in his homey, easy-reading way, gives advice on how to get over the inevitable disappointments of life, using the life of Moses as his illustrative starting point.
    • 4/5
      The book was interesting and Rabbi Kushner is great at presenting different interpretations of the Bible. However, I didn't feel like the book spoke to me or gave me any ideas that I could apply to my life.
    • 4/5
      What I liked were the few words that allowed me to accept that my child was a disappointment to me; I appreciated that.
    • 4/5
      Not a self-help book, but rather a really helpful book when faced with the necessity of dealing with failure. Rabbi Kushner is the intimate friend we all long for when life deals us a hand that's almost too painful to talk about.
    • 2/5
      If you are a person who has a hard time letting go of things, if you are mopey or melancholic, if you've ever thought you were unlucky or cursed, if you're far more likely to recount your list of misfortunes than your blessings, than you should read this book.I am an idealist. I dream big. I let go easily so I can start looking forward to whatever is coming next, and I hated this wet blanket of a book. There were a couple of things in here that made me think, which I always appreciate, so it wasn't a total waste of time, but by and large I resent being told to shrink my dreams or to live smaller and safer to minimize the pain. That isn't the life I was meant to lead. This book was obviously not for me.
    • 4/5
      This book was well-written, and I found the comparisons with Moses interesting. It does not hurt to be reminded that personal attitude is vital, but Rabbi Kushner seems to believe that a positive attitude is easier to project than it frequently is.