Celebrating Life : Finding Happiness in Unexpected Places

Name: Celebrating Life : Finding Happiness in Unexpected Places
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ISBN: 9780006281726

ISBN-10: 0006281729

ISBN-13: 9780006281726

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jonathan Sacks

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This collection of short pieces reflects on life, families, children, community, faith, friendship and hope. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has rewritten his original Credo articles and made them the starting point for this new book.

Book details

Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 3.25" wide x 6.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Jonathan Sacks has been Chief Rabbi in 1991 and sits in the House of Lords. He is much sought after as a religious broadcaster and spokesman. He is a lecturer, philosopher, and author, with many honours awarded for his contributions to theology and Jewish life.

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Staying sane in troubled times	p. 1
Making a Blessing over Life
Not taking life for granted	p. 7
Live long, live well	p. 10
Giving thanks	p. 14
Saved by a grape	p. 17
What makes the good news, news	p. 20
Letting the blessings catch up	p. 23
Affirmations in Unexpected Places
The good news file	p. 29
Failure	p. 32
God's script	p. 35
Humour and humanity	p. 37
Time out	p. 40
The fly and the fly-bottle	p. 42
Where Happiness Lives
Having it all	p. 47
A lesson in happiness	p. 50
The third domain	p. 53
Faith lost	p. 56
Faith found	p. 59
The art of happiness	p. 62
Finding God
The face of the personal	p. 67
The mirror of God	p. 70
The voice of silence	p. 73
Listening	p. 76
A question of faith	p. 79
Where we let Him in	p. 82
Faith in the Family
Faith is a marriage	p. 87
Love in a loveless world	p. 90
Fractured families	p. 93
C	p. 96
Learning to love	p. 99
Being a parent	p. 102
What we give our children	p. 105
The Moral Voice
Our creation	p. 109
The moral maze	p. 112
Values we share	p. 115
Can we make moral judgements?	p. 119
The hardest word to hear	p. 122
Civility	p. 124
Confidences	p. 126
Rights and duties	p. 129
Communities of Faith
Community	p. 135
Trust and the Prisoner's Dilemma	p. 138
Bowling alone	p. 141
Turning strangers into friends	p. 144
Where they know my name	p. 147
Faith and Friendship
The dignity of difference	p. 153
A new way	p. 156
Who best values others?	p. 159
When we cannot worship together	p. 161
Remembering Sir Isaiah	p. 163
Cardinal Hume	p. 165
From Optimism to Hope
Losing our way	p. 171
Sifting hope from ashes	p. 174
Telling the time	p. 177
When civilizations grow old	p. 181
Surviving change	p. 184
The Tabernacle	p. 187
Faith: the undiscovered country	p. 190
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