Jack R. Christianson

I loved the practical modern applications of doctrine. Sometimes it's hard to make the jump from ancient stories to modern problems and this book helped me start thinking in different ways.

There is a lot in life that is good, and there is a lot in life that is bad. This is solidly on the good side. Throughout the book, it also makes it clear that as "M. Scott Peck has written, 'Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact show more that life is difficult no longer matters' (The Road Less Traveled... Page 15)" (Page 64)

That is only a brief taste of this book, but there seemed to be something about those kind of experience in every chapter. Some of those painful experiences described were from the author's life. But it wasn't a cry-for-me event, rather, from those experiences he and others learned what really matters in life.

Although a thin little book, I was pleased to find a reasonable index at the back. show less