Complete with album-style pages for photographs and a pocket for letters and other documents, this book makes the perfect gift for parents and grandparents to reminisce about their lives and chronicle what they believe the future holds for them. Illustrations.
Robert S. Bryan, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, shares his personalized take on the elements of a life worth living.
We always wonder how we can live worth life. There is always strong desire in our mind to live fully and worthily. In this book the author has tried to derive 31 life lessons which can give you the idea about how one can live worth life. Lessons mentioned in this book are very easy to follow and solve our complexities. Readers can live joyful, passionate and easy life by applying the lessons concluded from holy books and real-life researches.
Schuyler uses the teachings of Jesus as the foundation for building a life that provides a deep and lasting sense of joy, that enables others to find this same joy and that glorifies God. (Christian)
Marvin Earl Harvey was born on September 26, 1926 to poor sharecropper parents. A LIFE WORTH LIVING is the story of a depression-era country boy ‘who done good’. It is also the tale of the providence of God and how the great Creator wants to be a part of every life. Marvin met God at an early age and this chance meeting in an old one room Baptist church changed his world. He envisioned a better life for himself and his future family. He had no idea how to accomplish this but because of his faith as an eight-year-old boy, he fulfilled all of his dreams. It only took two prayers and six miracles.
A Life Worth Living brings together the latest thought on Positive Psychology from an international cast of scholars. It includes historical, philosophical, and empirical reviews of what psychologists have found to matter for personal happiness and well-being. The contributions to this volume agree on priciples of optimal development that start from purely material and selfish concerns, but then lead to ever broader circles of responsibility embracing the goals of others and the well-being of the environment; on the importance of spirituality; on the development of strengths specific to the individual.Rather than material success, popularity, or power, the investigations reported in this volume suggest that personally constructed goals, intrinsic motivation, and a sense of autonomy are much more important. The chapters indicate that hardship and suffering do not necessarily make us unhappy, and they suggest therapeutical implications for improving the quality of life. Specific topics covered include the formation of optimal childhood values and habits as well as a new perspective on aging.This volume provides a powerful counterpoint to a mistakenly reductionist psychology. They show that subjective experience can be studied scientifically and measured accurately. They highlight the potentiality for autonomy and freedom that is among the most precious elements of the human condition. MOreover, they make a convincing case for the importance of subjective phenomena, which often affect happiness more than external, material conditions.After long decades during which psychologists seemed to have forgotten that misery is not the only option, the blossoming of Positive Psychology promises a better understanding of what a vigorous, meaningful life may consist of.
Amidst a sometimes confusing barrage of news about the Middle East, Dr. Bernard Sabella, a Palestinian Christian, offers an enlightening, often humorous, personal narrative accompanied by reflections on lessons learned from his life in a conflict zone. Displaced from his home in infancy with his refugee family and educated in Jerusalem’s Old City before pursuing university studies in the US, he blossomed into a committed educator, scholar, member of the Palestinian Parliament, and director of a church aid agency. Throughout his life Dr. Sabella has never lost his focus on the goal of promoting peace through understanding, and he has never been diverted from his path of absolute nonviolence. A Life Worth Living speaks with a voice worth listening to, alternately anecdotal and analytical, touching our hearts while pondering the past, present, and future of the Holy Land.
Jesus Christ makes life profoundly worth living. This is Paul's message in his letter to the Philippians, in which he encourages the church he planted in Philippi to go on pursuing their new identity in Christ. In an engaging and accessible way, Nicky Gumbel places this key letter of the New Testament in context, explaining its audience and its writer, before unpacking why and how Christians can live with a new purpose, confidence and joy. He uses plenty of choice anecdotes to help us understand how Paul's message applies to us today, and how living for Jesus is living life to the full. Ideal for people new to studying the Bible, this book will help the reader understand the exciting implications of being a Christian.
