From the Introduction:
My parish in north-west London supports a parish in Pakistan, where the Christians are desperately poor. Most live in mud huts, and cannot afford hospital care, so disease is rife; nor education for their children, nor even adequate food. Nearly all have been injured by Muslim extremists, and live in constant fear of another attack. Their suffering is imposed on them. But it is not to people in this condition that I am speaking in this short book. Instead it is to the people of Britain, who are not suffering any systematic persecution, and whose suffering, if any, is largely caused by their own actions. No-one can entirely avoid pain and suffering in this life, but it can be reduced to a minimum, and your happiness can be increased.
This is what G K Chesterton says on the subject: “The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up … by its creed joy becomes something gigantic and sadness something special and small. The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world... So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence, while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.” G K Chesterton, Orthodoxy
The title of this booklet may be presumptuous, but I decided that if one person learns just one thing from it, it will have been worthwhile.
My parish in north-west London supports a parish in Pakistan, where the Christians are desperately poor. Most live in mud huts, and cannot afford hospital care, so disease is rife; nor education for their children, nor even adequate food. Nearly all have been injured by Muslim extremists, and live in constant fear of another attack. Their suffering is imposed on them. But it is not to people in this condition that I am speaking in this short book. Instead it is to the people of Britain, who are not suffering any systematic persecution, and whose suffering, if any, is largely caused by their own actions. No-one can entirely avoid pain and suffering in this life, but it can be reduced to a minimum, and your happiness can be increased.
This is what G K Chesterton says on the subject: “The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up … by its creed joy becomes something gigantic and sadness something special and small. The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world... So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence, while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.” G K Chesterton, Orthodoxy
The title of this booklet may be presumptuous, but I decided that if one person learns just one thing from it, it will have been worthwhile.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Love God and love your neighbour
Do what God wants
How to get prayers answered
How to stop bad things happening to you
How to stop things going wrong
Coping with stress
Stick to what you can do
“I can’t”
Know your insanity
Managing money
Living on benefits
Buying things
Making decisions
Two goods and two evils
Keeping healthy
Coping with illness
The use of hobbies
Dealing with organisations
Have a pet
Friendship
Coping with dislike
Marriage
Children
Introduction
Love God and love your neighbour
Do what God wants
How to get prayers answered
How to stop bad things happening to you
How to stop things going wrong
Coping with stress
Stick to what you can do
“I can’t”
Know your insanity
Managing money
Living on benefits
Buying things
Making decisions
Two goods and two evils
Keeping healthy
Coping with illness
The use of hobbies
Dealing with organisations
Have a pet
Friendship
Coping with dislike
Marriage
Children
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