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The Burden and Gift of Living
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Alan Noble
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We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is.
For the majority of people, sorrow, despair, anxiety, and mental illness are everyday experiences. While we have made tremendous advancements in therapy and psychiatry, the burden of living still comes down to mundane choices that we each must make—like the daily choice to get out of bed.
In this deeply personal essay, Alan Noble considers the unique burden of everyday life in the modern world. Sometimes, he writes, the choice to carry on amid great suffering—to simply get out of bed—is itself a powerful witness to the goodness of life, and of God.
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Later chapters best
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Candid and Simple
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Noble stands on the line of truth and understanding. He will caution against over-diagnosis but then caution against turning a blind eye to issues that one needs to find help. He tells painful truths like one needs to avoid reveling in the dower nature for the attention of others while also being lovingly kind to people who stay silent to not burden people who need to seek out help from others. The overall arch is that sometimes just doing one little thing, like getting out of bed, is a goal and then you find your next, right thing to do.
Noble hangs the truth on a couple of different truths. 1) Being made in the image of God shows like our life is precious, 2) God has made promises we should believe in and one of the ways we can believe them is to show by actively doing so, and 3) we can biblically love ourselves, not in the worldly, superficial way but in the 1 Corinthians 13 way.
This is a book that I finished and ordered a physical copy to mark up and lend out to others. I would call this book one of my "reverse highlight" books in that I would have made it through it quicker if I highlighted what I DIDN'T want to pay attention to on quick glance. Noble's care and love for those struggling is evident and not just as someone who puts forward the "I am one of you too" but in the "God is a God who keeps His promises and the ultimate goal is for us keep on living for His glory". I highly recommend this book (I ordered his other two as well because of this). Final Grade - A+
Wow - ordered another copy
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Right on
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Exactly what I am struggling with
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A lifeline
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Someone needs to read this
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P.S. I love that it isn’t too long either. Straight to the point!
Everything I needed to hear to get out of bed!
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