The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective
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Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles
Book Type: Hardcover
Helpful Score: 1
This book arrived on Wednesday, when I was suffering from a sore throat and a terrible headache. I set the book beside on the bed and kept looking at that cover. It was not the title or the author that kept drawing my attention but the tagline from a review by golfer Nancy Lopez, âThis is the best book I have ever read in my life.â
Within minutes I was half way through Chapter 1 and had no idea I wouldn't put it down until I finished. It is fiction, but the author writes it as an autobiography and it is full of more inspiration, wisdom and motivation than any self help book.
An elderly white haired man with brown skin who calls himself Jones, just Jones, not Mr. Jones, shows up at one of the author's lowest points of his life and shows him how a different way of looking at things, a different perspective can change your life.
Over the years this man shows up again and again in this small Alabama town to help the desperate, depressed and downtrodden. Those who feel helpless and hopeless whether it be from the loss of a job, the loss of a loved one , divorce, financial worries or just at the end of their rope. He knows everything about them and helps them see their lives in a different perspective and changes their lives.
He believed that everyone was âin a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.â âThat's just part of being on this planet.â It was how you handled the crisis that made you who you are. How just being on this earth affects so many other people.
This book takes place over several years and it isn't until the end that you see that everyone in the small town knew Jones and how many lives he truly affected.
I can't say this is the best book I have ever read but it is the right up in the top five. I feel everyone needs to read this book. I am going to pass my copy around to my family and it may eventually wind up in my church library so many more people have a chance to read this wonderful story.
http://dollycas.blogspot.com/
Within minutes I was half way through Chapter 1 and had no idea I wouldn't put it down until I finished. It is fiction, but the author writes it as an autobiography and it is full of more inspiration, wisdom and motivation than any self help book.
An elderly white haired man with brown skin who calls himself Jones, just Jones, not Mr. Jones, shows up at one of the author's lowest points of his life and shows him how a different way of looking at things, a different perspective can change your life.
Over the years this man shows up again and again in this small Alabama town to help the desperate, depressed and downtrodden. Those who feel helpless and hopeless whether it be from the loss of a job, the loss of a loved one , divorce, financial worries or just at the end of their rope. He knows everything about them and helps them see their lives in a different perspective and changes their lives.
He believed that everyone was âin a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.â âThat's just part of being on this planet.â It was how you handled the crisis that made you who you are. How just being on this earth affects so many other people.
This book takes place over several years and it isn't until the end that you see that everyone in the small town knew Jones and how many lives he truly affected.
I can't say this is the best book I have ever read but it is the right up in the top five. I feel everyone needs to read this book. I am going to pass my copy around to my family and it may eventually wind up in my church library so many more people have a chance to read this wonderful story.
http://dollycas.blogspot.com/
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