| Twenty-Five Words: How the Serenity Prayer Can Save Your Life Contributor(s): Rogers, Barb (Author) |
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ISBN: 1590030729 ISBN-13: 9781590030721 Publisher: Red Wheel OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: Sure there are reasons for our behaviors, addictions and bad choices--but reasons don't change anything. The Serenity Prayer does. Rogers takes a new look at the prayer that has changed, even saved, millions of lives, including her own. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Spirituality |
| Dewey: 242.7 |
| LCCN: 2004025357 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 6.9" (0.30 lbs) 141 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These Twenty-five words are the bedrock of the worldwide Alcoholics Anonymous movement, a movement that has saved and improved millions of lives. When Barb Rogers first heard this prayer a quarter of a century ago, she could scarcely credit it and hadn't the ears to believe it. It all begins with meee, meee, meee, she writes. As in, Why is God doing all these things to meee? Why doesn't God understand that I know what's best for mee and do what I ask him to? Why are other people doing all these things to mee? Well as it turns out, it's not all about mee. Rogers tells her story and invites readers to take a tough, loving look at their own. There are some things we should accept, period. We shouldn't take them personally. We shouldn't whine or scream or go off on a tear. Then there are some things we can change, and we should probably take a look at those as well. And the real trick, the one that comes from years of saying the prayer and letting its healing principles sink in, is knowing the difference. Barb Rogers' own story starts in the depths of alcoholism, with deceased children, broken marriages, lost jobs. Sure there were reasons, but reasons didn't change anything: the Serenity Prayer did. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rogers, Barb: - Barb Rogers became a professional costume designer after beginning her journey of recovery. She is the founder of Broadway Bazaar Costumes, and author of three books about costuming. She's the author of Keep It Simple & Sane: Freeing Yourself from Addictive Thinking, TwentyFive Words and Clutter Junkie No More. Barb passed away in 2011. |