Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress by Daniel D. MaurerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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I received a review copy of Endure from the AXP website. This is an honest review.
Endure is a series of six stories of people who have gone through extraordinary circumstances. In telling these stories, the author exposes us to what he calls Spiritual Assets. These assets are: gratitude, acceptance, hope, faith, forgiveness and love.
Each chapter opens with the explanation of the asset covered, then the story of the person. After this he does a question and answer with them and then explains why these are important. These are real life situations not some story made up to explain some point of a sermon.
The author tries and I feel succeeds, in not preaching the Christian Faith by showing how many religions have the same values. If I was writing this, I might not have done that, but I respect his faith and why he did it the way I did.
I would not recommend this book for children. There are some frightening scenes of the true violence that one man can inflict on another. Yet without those stories we would not have the examples of how these people are day by day, working out what they need to do to make it in this world.
It was a good book, in places I wanted him to get to the point a little quicker, that is why the loss of a star. That is more me than it would be the author.
Recommend (with the understanding about children) that this could be read by anyone looking to see how people recover and move on with life. There are elements of spirituality that may or not affect people not of faith, but I think they would enjoy as well.
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