Successful Living

Making Life Work for You is a collection of essays on a variety of topics which will both entertain and instruct the reader in order to obtain a fuller appreciation of life, from the very practical to the invisible spiritual realms. Sample chapters include: "Peaceful Life Purpose," "How to Stay Healthy in a Sick World," "Helping Suicide Prevention Helpers," "Finding Life Goals and the Life Mission," and "Time to Seriously Think about Time." Complete contents is below. From the introduction: "Life is not just for the accumulation of goods and services, but for a sincere and persistent investigation into the meaning of life.... We can take the opportunity to examine our lives closely while we still have life, not wait and see what happens after death.... "So I ask you, dear reader, to seriously consider the questions and answers in this book. Don't just accept what society has told you is the correct path. Take a long look at life purpose and cause-and-effect reactions while you still have life. Don't wait for the approach of death to force you into a situation of desperate pondering with few clear options as to how to handle the next reality." In short, Making Life Work for You contains entertaining and informative essays to help you unlock the keys to a successful and fulfilling life. Contents Introduction 1. Peaceful Life Purpose 2. God's Kind of Love, Including Forgiveness 3. Keeping the Peace, in and Around Us 4. How to Stay Healthy in a Sick World 5. Choices, Chess, and Adolescence 6. Grandfather's Blessings 7. Faith, in God, People, or Both? 8. Being a Child Again 9. Tithing, Our Friend 10. Who Is the Holy Spirit? 11. Angels Everywhere 12. Helping Suicide Prevention Helpers 13. The Smaller Words Will Have Their Day, Just Not Today-Wordy Humor 14. How the Life Cycle Works for Most People 15. Finding Life Goals and the Life Mission 16. Making Life Goals 17. Expanding Time 18. Faith, Again 19. Peace Provision 20. Boring Names-More Wordy Humor 21. The Price of Fame 22. Our Next Great Civilization 23. Perfect Patience 24. Time to Seriously Think about Time Appendix 1 Suicide Prevention Poem and Devotional Night Angel Suicide Is a Dead-end Appendix 2 Finding Suicide Prevention Help Lines Outside the U.S. About the Author and the Publisher