Cure for the Common Life: Premier Library Edition

I'm a little behind in my Lucado reading. But it took me so long to get through this book.

Max Lucado tells his readers, in Cure for the Common Life, that we need to find our Sweet Spot, that God has made us unique with specific gifts.

And what we should do is figure out what we enjoy doing and then pursue that because it's what God would want us to do.

It's no fun doing something that makes you miserable - and Lucado tells the story of how he hates strategy/building meetings yet was part of them all. Finally he quit and stuck with reading and teaching.

So stop doing the things that make you miserable is the lesson here.

But wait, a couple chapters later he tells a story of a boy who didn't want to hike clear to the top of a mountain like the rest of his friends. Instead of letting him be happy and stop, they forced him to walk the rest of the way.

So much for living in his Sweet Spot.

This book is typical Lucado with easy reading and stories about people galore!

Max Lucado always expresses ideas with the most beautiful and accurate word pictures. This book provides the reader a workbook to try to uncover the unique gifts God has provided from birth, in order to understand our purpose on earth. He urges us to dissect every period of our life from childhood on, to zero in on the activities that made us the happiest; those pursuits that made time stand still, and which we would do whether or not we were being paid. God has provided us continuous clues throughout life that lead us to the unique work that will enable us to praise Him fully, in the optimum way we designed for us.

I buy this book five copies at a time. These are excellent gifts to people who find themselves at a crossroad in life. Whether graduating from high school, college, or experiencing a major life change which causes any of us to question what will we do with our lives. Max guides readers through a life inventory of what they have done to help them decide what they can do. In Max's unique pragmatic style, he employs the principles described by Dr. Arthur Miller in "Designed for Life" in a way that is easy to understand and fun to learn. This is a great book that I have read several times and found it helpful when I retired from the Army.

this book has a great lesson about being happy where you are. what I and my husband took from it is that although we may not be happy with our work, we need to realize that perhaps God has us there for a reason. We need to learn to see beyond the obvious. Look deeper. Then you learn to find satisfaction where you didn't before. That is a helpful lesson for today's society and way of life.

I found this audio book easy to listen to. There aren't confusing references or hard to follow language. This book simply tells you how to work to the best of your natural abilities and embrace your individuality while exercising your unique strengths.

The book gives information from the bible in everyday terms so that you are able to associate it, easily, to whatever it is you aspire to become in life. It is not an overwhelming lesson in bible verses just good information that you can put to use everyday.