God Knows Life Gets Hard: 10 Tips for Tough Times

by Marilyn Kielbasa

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893732681
• ISBN13: 9781893732681
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Ave Maria Press
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Help and Encouragement during life's challenges

Author Marilyn Kielbasa offers support, encouragement and positive, proactive steps to take during life's challenging times. Setting her suggestions in an upbeat and personal tone, she encourages the reader to accept and honor the feelings that they are experiencing, but then gently encourages steps and activities one can take to move beyond troubling times. For personal use or as a gift for a friend going through difficulities, this book provides an uplifting source of strength and courage.

Keep This One Handy for the Tough Times

In her introduction, the author describes a summer filled with of mishaps, challenges, dilemmas, and minor disasters that, "when strung together," made her life difficult. In the moment, she just wanted to "get on" with her life, but later realized that this was her life. The succeeding 10 chapters, or tips, address life's challenges, changes, and crises, through personal stories and pithy quotations ranging from "Normal is just a setting on your hair dryer" to "Compassion directed toward oneself is humility." Each chapter contains suggestions for dealing with difficult times, under headings such as acknowledge your struggles, recognize that you've been there before, and find hope in the moment. You might want to read this one straight through initially, then, in times of stress, reread appropriate sections and practice the activities.