Wow. This book was really compelling for me. The author is Canadian and refers to many places in Canada where she and her family have lived. It's quite current, published just this past September! She talks about the pandemic and the impact it has had. Also, just having lost my brother to cancer, I really related to the fear and the rollercoaster cancer treatments bring. Happily, she recovered. Hopefully, life continues that way for her. She also talks about what she will do when this pandemic is over. Sometimes I can't even imagine that....but we have to look forward. Have to!
This book has made me want to read anything else she has written. She talks about prosperity gospel preaching - a subject I have found fascinating for years. She seems to lean towards Christianity in a lot of her topics.
I loved her appendix at the end....things people say:
- things happen for a reason
- let go and let God
- be present
- No regrets
- facing the past is part of facing the future
- make every minute count
and more
All those things end up being questioned when someone gets cancer or a pandemic happens or your husband has a stroke and struggles to heal his heart issues or....so many things.
Goodreads says:
The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do you move forward with a life you didn't choose?
It's hard to give up on the feeling that the life you really want is just out of reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner. A promotion on the horizon. Everyone wants to believe that they are headed toward good, better, best. But what happens when the life you hoped for is put on hold indefinitely?
Kate Bowler believed that life was a series of unlimited choices, until she discovered, at age 35, that her body was wracked with cancer. In No Cure for Being Human, she searches for a way forward as she mines the wisdom (and absurdity) of today's "best life now" advice industry, which insists on exhausting positivity and on trying to convince us that we can out-eat, out-learn, and out-perform our humanness. We are, she finds, as fragile as the day we were born.
With dry wit and unflinching honesty, Kate Bowler grapples with her diagnosis, her ambition, and her faith as she tries to come to terms with her limitations in a culture that says anything is possible. She finds that we need one another if we're going to tell the truth: Life is beautiful and terrible, full of hope and despair and everything in between--and there's no cure for being human.
Goodreads says:
The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do you move forward with a life you didn't choose?
It's hard to give up on the feeling that the life you really want is just out of reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner. A promotion on the horizon. Everyone wants to believe that they are headed toward good, better, best. But what happens when the life you hoped for is put on hold indefinitely?
Kate Bowler believed that life was a series of unlimited choices, until she discovered, at age 35, that her body was wracked with cancer. In No Cure for Being Human, she searches for a way forward as she mines the wisdom (and absurdity) of today's "best life now" advice industry, which insists on exhausting positivity and on trying to convince us that we can out-eat, out-learn, and out-perform our humanness. We are, she finds, as fragile as the day we were born.
With dry wit and unflinching honesty, Kate Bowler grapples with her diagnosis, her ambition, and her faith as she tries to come to terms with her limitations in a culture that says anything is possible. She finds that we need one another if we're going to tell the truth: Life is beautiful and terrible, full of hope and despair and everything in between--and there's no cure for being human.
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