Calm Surrender: Walking the Hard Road of Forgiveness
Author: Kent Nerburn
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ISBN: 1577311191
Publisher: New World Library (May, 2000)
Sales Rank: 114,975
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 out of 5
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Rating: 2 out of 5
A Let Down
This book was a real disappointment. The overall point of the book was well recieved and enjoyable but poorly written. Unfortunately, the book came off to often as a very long Hallmark card. There are some very good points, but the overall sound and feel is something like this: "Life is good, but life can be bad. What do we do when life is bad, how do we forgive? Here is a story... You can see, from the story, that life is pretty and forgiveness is like leaf or a stream or like the wind, blah blah blah." That may sound harsh, but I am being honest. I think that there should been more time spent on actual intelligent discussion of forgiveness rather than sappy descriptions of nature and melancholy anecdotes. I guess I just expected more from someone with a Ph.D. The book was 95% fluff and 5% meat. I, personally, would not waste my time.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Good Book
This is a good book on forgiveness and how difficult it is at times. I would also recommend the book An Encounter With A Prophet for some powerful ways to achieve forgiveness.
Rating: 5 out of 5
clear thoughts on a complex topic
When I saw that Kent had written a book on forgiveness I was concerned. There are so many books that confuse forgiveness with forgetting and equate forgiveness with turning away from the cruelty in the world. I was hoping that he wouldn't go for such easy answers. Boy, was I right. He didn't disappoint me. He wrote about hard, hard moments in everyday life. He just took me along with him and made me look at the confusion surrounding all our ordinary lives. If he can find a wise way to talk about forgiveness when he sees a woman reading a book to the grave of her dead child, then he can talk to me about forgiveness. And that's just what he did. Buy it. You won't be sorry. Similar Products
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