February 2023: Resilient

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Title:Resilient

Author:John Eldredge

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Genre: Christian/Self-Help 

Pages: 206

Rating: 1.5/5 Stars

Summary: Eldredge does his best to revive Christians who may now feel weary or despondent when it comes to their faith. Although written with good intentions, I found the book to be pendantic, simplistic, scattered, and very difficult to get through. Eldredge uses real life and biblical examples to help readers understand the different ways we need to restore our souls and remain resilient post COVID-19 Pandemic. The book felt more to be a plug for his new Resilient App. A Good Read's review of this book says it best, "I think there are some very good things about this book, but there are also some things that are not so helpful, and plenty more that's really just fluff, mixes of pat evangelical rhetoric with metaphor and religious jargon. That's the real takeaway here, and probably the reason I burned out on this genre of Christian self-help long ago: it tries to say everything, but ends up saying even less than the secular psychology self-help stuff."

Memorable Quotes:

“You’ve got to release the world; you’ve got to release people, crises, trauma, intrigue, all of it. There has to be sometime in your day where you just let it all go. All the tragedy of the world, the heartbreak, the latest shooting, earthquake—the soul was never meant to endure this. The soul was never meant to inhabit a world like this. It’s way too much. Your soul is finite. You cannot carry the sorrows of the world. Only God can do that. Only he is infinite. Somewhere, sometime in your day, you’ve just got to release it. You’ve got to let it go. ."

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Finished: 4/2


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