Resilient
Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times
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Publisher Description
Reclaim your joy and thrive through the storms of life when you find your strength in God.
The human soul has a built-in yearning for joy and beauty and all good things. But that craving for life is so easily lost in the pace and demands of modern life. Join New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge as he gives you the tools you need to follow Jesus' path of supernatural resilience.
Between false promises of ease and comfort on one side and the sheer busyness and stress of daily life on the other, people today are facing a shortage of peace, happiness, and strength. In Resilient, Eldredge reveals a path toward genuine recovery and resilience through Jesus himself.
Drawing on wisdom from Scripture and Christian tradition, and illustrated throughout with powerful, true stories of grit and survival, Resilient will help you:
Tap into the river of life that God promises his peopleLearn to be patient with yourself--genuine recovery from spiritual and emotional trauma takes time and intentionalityCreate a plan to foster resilience in your day-to-day lifeDiscover deep wells of freedom and strength through Christ who lives within us
Thriving requires a resilient soul. This book will help you find the resilience you long for when the world has gone mad--and discover in Jesus himself the strength that prevails.
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Biblical counselor Eldredge (Get Your Life Back) delivers a jocular if vague spiritual "survival guide" full of "tools for strengthening heart and soul." Lamenting the Covid-19 pandemic's toll on mental and physical health, the author urges readers to take the "path toward recovery and resilience" laid out by "the Creator and Redeemer." One way to do so involves finding resilience in "God's presence within us," and to that end Eldredge recommends picking a quiet place, tuning out distractions, and loving God, which opens one "to the reality of his presence." The author also advises on "converting the ‘unconverted places'" in one's mind, suggesting readers confront unholy impulses (bitterness and lust among them) and ask Jesus what one should do to reduce such thoughts. Each chapter takes inspiration from a story of resilience, including St. John of the Cross's imprisonment and explorer John Muir's brush with death while climbing Mount Shasta. The author's tendency toward abstraction can hamper the usefulness of his advice ("Enter your primal longing for things to be good again, and in that place start loving God"), but his humor keeps the proceedings upbeat ("unflappable Jesus, the most level-headed guy ever"). The result is a timely if somewhat opaque volume on cultivating resilience.
