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Summary: The book is masterful.
Review: "Good News for Bad Days" is masterfully composed, flawless in its writing and wise in its message. For what it is -- a guide to the use of the spirit in coping with the adversities of life -- it's perfection. If that's your interest, you'll enjoy it and perhaps even be a better person for having read it.
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Summary: The book is masterful.
Review: "Good News for Bad Days" is masterfully composed, flawless in its writing and wise in its message. For what it is -- a guide to the use of the spirit in coping with the adversities of life -- it's perfection. If that's your interest, you'll enjoy it and perhaps even be a better person for having read it.
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Summary: An umbrella for your soul
Review: As a 45 yr. old wife, mother and sales executive, life is overwhelming to me somedays. Given the choice, I would like the option to run and hide...but that does not work in the real world. Fr. Keenan's book has given me the guidance and support I need to get through the day and week. I realize that this is a phase and I can tilt the sails to capture the wind for direction needed.
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Summary: The very best news in a very long time.
Review: Brilliant, inspiring, filled with with and charm. Paul Keenan's love of life and his unfailingly positive approach are seen on each page. Written in Paul's warm and caring style, Good News for Bad Days strikes exactly the right note for those times that we feel upset or discouraged.This is a thoroughly inspiring and motivating book, a must read for anybody who has ever had a bad day -- and who hasn't?
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Summary: Review of Good News for Bad Days in (NY) Daily News.
Review: Charles W. Bell, Daily News, 6/27/98 In his fantasy world, says the Rev. Paul Keenan, he is in some prestigious school of higher education, teaching the most important coure that students never take in the real world. And that course? "Ignorance," Keenan says, and he's not kidding. "Our society," he says, "places so much value on knowledge that it has lost sight of the importance of ignorance." Keenan, 52, assistant director of communications for the Archdiocese of New York, argues a pretty convincing case, too. And in his first book, "Good News for Bad Days" (Warner), he devotes an entire chapter to the subject -- "the gift of ignorance," he calls it. There's a spiritual spin to this, but, he says, there's a practical side, too. "In my classroom," he said this week over coffee at the Catholic Center on the upper East SIde, "I would tell students: The more you learn, the less you know, and ! that is okay." Huh? "There is a knowing beyond what we think we know," says Keenan. The experts say Keenan is on to something. Not long ago, several scientists compiled a two-volume Encyclopedia of Ignorance, which is based on the notion that almost every scientific answer to a question raises even more questions. "But I would warn students not to confuse ignorance with the distractions around them,"says Keenan, who was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and grew up in Kansas City, Mo. He would tell them that ignorance is not bliss--nor is it stupidity. "It is purely and simply now knowing what to do," he says, "and so I would teach them that it's a virtue, a way of moving past the superficial and into the depth of life." Keenan speaks from experience: Several years ago, he says, he suffered a bout of depression so severe he went into therapy, read dozens of self-help books and attended seminars. He learned a lot, he says,! but one day, he asked himself why he wasn't at peace with ! himself, even with all the things he had learned. He realized, almost in a flash, that in one important sense he was ignorant. "I had to admit to myself I didn't know how to live," he says. "Only then could I rebuild on a solid foundation." Keenan, who was ordained in 1977, and who came to New York to study at Fordham (for his master's degree), left the Jesuit order several years ago to become a diocesan priest. (It requires approval by a bishop, Cardinal O'Connor in this case.) He celebrates Mass every day at Our Lady of Peace on the upper East Side, where he also lives. But in a way, his real parish is the radio. Keenan is co-host of the long-running weekly show "Religion on the Line," which airs 6 a.m. to 9a.m. on WABC every Sunday, and host of "As You Think," which airs on WOR every Saturday night. Botrh involve interviews, monologues and telephone call-ins. "I think of 'religion' as a three-hour meditation,"! says Keenan, who puts his audience for that show at 160,000. So what does he suggest people do when they are confronted by a problem and ignorant of what to do about it? "Don't do anything," says Keenan. "Hang in there, and the answer will come."
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Summary: HONEST AND COMPASSIONATE
Review: GIST: A spiritual advisor seeks to comfort. HAMMOCK-TIME: Thisslim volume takes very little time to finish, perhaps one weekend inyour hammock or beach chair. PACE: Fast-paced. STYLE: Clear, concise. SUBSTANCE: Raised as a Roman Catholic, I've always felt a bit guilty in my ongoing interest in New Thought theories and techniques. I was more than pleasantly surprised to learn that Fr. Keenan recommends several New Thought type ideas and methods. Because of my Catholic background, it also meant a great deal to me that Fr. Keenan has a sense of balance, an openness tempered by intelligence and caution. So many New Thought authors, some recommended by Oprah, have lost compassion or even a sense of integrity as they steal quotes from each other and from long-dead philosophers. Worse, they promote each other's ideas as if they alone hold the monopoly on knowing how the Universe precisely operates. Fr. Keenan seems to rise above this good ole guru network, and truly to come from an authentic place of love and truth. His humility is refreshing, and comforting. QUIBBLES: Because he is so humble, he never stated what radio stations air his programs. It took some research. . COMPLEMENTARY BOOKS: Any book by the late great Fr. Henri Nouwen, whose work, The Wounded Healer is a classic. His insight and compassion are endearing and inspiring. ### END
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Summary: a very thought provoking look at life.
Review: Good News for Bad Days - a great title for a book which gives such a deep look into the life of the author. Father Paul shows me in this book that it is possible to be fully human and fully in touch with God. In fact, to be fully human is to live a soulful - a soulfilled - life. It is rare these days to have someone share so much of their own struggles and joys of life. In all of the struggles, there is a lesson to be learned. That lesson is grounded in a deep faith in God. I only wished that Father Paul had written this book years ago!
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Summary: Inspiring, comforting, insightful, spiritual - a must read!
Review: I didn't finish the book yet because I keep going over some chapters that apply to my own spiritual journey. I can relate to so many things Fr. Pauls says. He is truly a gifted author and buying this book was no "coincidence." I was looking for another book, but this came into my hand because God wanted me to read Fr. Paul's words. Thank you Father Paul for sharing your insights with us. We are on this journey together.
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Summary: Great if you like Football.
Review: I thought this was a good book. Because it was about football. It was'ent just one team it has different players and some of the best players from the 80's to the 90's. Some players are still playing till this day.Thats what this books about good professional players ;about their good days and their bad days.
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Summary: Our bad days can help us to grow into a soulful life.
Review: I wrote this book because, as a radio talk-show host and as a priest who interacts daily with people of different religious backgrounds, I know how discouraged people can be sometimes. I also know it from my own life, which has had lots of bad days and bad times. Over the years, I have learned that there is a deeper, happier dimension to our lives, a soulful divine dimension, which even the bad days need not extinguish. When I thought about my own bad days and those of people I knew, I came to realize that, rather than diminishing life, those days had actually come to enrich and to deepen it. In writing this book, I was able to share my own story and the stories of people I have known, stories that tell us that there is indeed good news in the bad days of our lives. The chapters:
You Can Get There from Here
Your Soul is Where You Are
Why Me?
The Set of the Sails
Ambience: What Comes Around Goes Around
The Teacher Will Appear
Dare to Be Ignorant
There is Magic in Boredom
You Call This Work?
Stop, Look and Listen
The Language of Soul
Soulful Choices
You Do Have a Prayer
The Gift to Be Simple
Love Is the Miracle
You are Attractive
The Miracle of Forgiveness
Finding Your Soul I was ecstatic when Deepak Chopra read the book and said, "I recommend this book to all seeking a more soulful life." And when Bernie Siegel said, "Read this book and start a soulful life." Wayne Dyer's comment, "Uplifting, sage advice from one of America's foremost spiritual teachers" really touched me. And so did Thomas Moore's words, "Now, in this captivating book [Father Keenan] offers us an important slant on the life of the soul. It's a book of wisdom and intelligence, but most of all -- heart. Read it and discover that the creative life is only inches away." I hope you will enjoy this book as much as they did, and as much as I enjoyed writing it. I am happy to share my stories with you. Father Paul Keenan
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