My dad is 94 and just recently took a turn for the worse with heart failure.
This is hard for me. Besides the rest of my family, Dad is the most loving person I know.
My sister, Joy, is his caretaker, and she called to tell me that Dad has fluid on his lungs.
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Imagine you just received one of those invitations advertising a dinner seminar for the best investment you could ever make. But the speaker is quite unique.
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What a Secular Atheistic Jew Discovers About Pain and Resilience
If you are suffering from emotional or physical pain, relief is beautifully painted in Andrew Klavan’s autobiography, The Great Good Thing.
Seeing the great good thing doesn’t happen for Klavan until he comes to terms with his childhood pain.
Pain evolved despite the idyllic suburban life of the Great Gatsby neighborhood in Great Neck, NY.
His father was a superstar DJ on the most popular drive-time radio show in NYC. But the white picket images of the neighborhood could not mask his father’s rage and his mother’s cold indifference.
Rarely do I read a book I can’t close. But there are so many gems here, I must share three.
No matter what your emotional pain is, you must never give up on your passion. God made you that way. A great lesson from the book is to follow the story wherever it goes.
“But, a writer to find his voice, must first find himself.”
Andrew Klavan
The human heart is a story, not science.
Story captures the inner life.
Klavan sees therapy and theology as markers for the path.
Some people need therapy before they are well enough to see a therapist.
Even in the middle of pain, anger, and alcohol, Klavan practiced his passion and gift.
He wrote early and often, even as he wrestled the demons.
Late one night over a cigarette, scotch, and a Mets game, he is ready to end it all.
Exhaling the smoke around his drink, he catches a comment from the announcer.
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