The suffering that brings you to despair and even desperation can—with healing—become a source of hope, purpose and blessing.
Are you: Feeling anxious? Feeling depressed because of the loss of health, a relationship or a job? Grieving the loss of a loved one? Grieving loss by a suicide? Feeling hopeless? Concerned about a friend who has suicidal thoughts?
This wise and helpful guide explores the nature of personal suffering and brokenness and the potential for personal crisis as a source of strength and renewal instead of despair and death. Examining the personal journeys of biblical and historical figures such as Moses, Maimonides, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Buber—as well as the author’s own personal experience with despair—it looks at brokenness as an inescapable element of the human condition. It traces the path of suffering from despair to depression to desperation to the turning point—healing—when first-hand knowledge of suffering can be transformed into blessing.
Table of Content
This Book Is For You If … i
Foreword xiii
Acknowledgments xvii I
ntroduction 1
Tools for Perspective 18
One: A Shattered Vessel 19
Tools for Transformation 51
Two: Bitter Darkness 53
Tools for Gratitude 65
Three: Forgiving the Lost Soul 67
Tools for Forgiving 81
Four: A Healed World 83
Tools for Healing 107
Five: You Shall Be a Blessing 109
Tools for Becoming a Blessing 141
Practical Guidance Distilled: Checklists for Specific Areas of Concern 143
Notes 151
About the author
Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, MD, a psychiatrist, rabbi, and frequent lecturer on a broad range of topics including spirituality and self-esteem, is author of over fifty books, including Happiness and the Human Spirit: The Spirituality of Becoming the Best You Can Be, A Formula for Proper Living: Practical Lessons from Life and Torah (both Jewish Lights), Waking Up Just in Time, The Spiritual Self, and Getting Up When You’re Down. He is the founder and medical director emeritus of Gateway Rehabilitation Center. For more information, visit www.abrahamtwerski.com.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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