When Changing Nothing Changes Everything
The Power of Reframing Your Life
by Laurie Polich Short
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Pub Date May 07 2017 | Archive Date Jun 14 2017
InterVarsity Press | IVP Books
Description
Reframing your perspective can transform your life.
We often face circumstances that we cannot change—a job we are forced to keep, a relationship that did not work out, a decision we cannot take back. Life can overwhelm us, and we may not be able to see past the obstacles in our path.
Laurie Short offers a simple but revolutionary idea: change nothing that is around you yet still change everything about your life. With the help of four different lenses, Laurie shows how the way you see can have an impact on how you live. If you put on the right lenses, you can reframe whatever comes your way and embrace both the good and the bad, recognizing that every detail of your life is fully in God's sovereign hands. Your perspective has more power than you think to determine the course of your life.
Advance Praise
"Dallas Willard used to say that eternity is already in session. Laurie Short has written an elegant invitation to live life from inside eternity rather than on the outside."
—John Ortberg, senior pastor, Menlo Church
"Laurie Short has written a powerful and empowering book.
She's proven why perspective matters, but even deeper, she's shown us we
have control over the aperture of our lives. And who doesn't need a new
lens on life?"
—Nicole Johnson, founder of the nonprofit organization Seasons Weekend (formerly a part of Women of Faith), author of Creating Calm in the Center of Crazy
"The flourishing of our lives depends so much not only on what, but how we see. In When Changing Nothing Changes Everything,
Laurie Short has offered us a concise, accessible guidebook that
provides not only helpful instruction but—more importantly—hope for how a
proper vision of the life we have can lead to the very world of
goodness and beauty for which we long so deeply. Read this book—and see
your life change before your very eyes."
—Curt Thompson, author of The Soul of Shame and Anatomy of the Soul
"The true stories Laurie uses throughout this book make its message
impossible to ignore. If you need your world rocked by new eyes for your
current circumstances, then you need this book."
—Lisa Anderson, director of Boundless.org, author of The Dating Manifesto
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780830844791 |
| PRICE | $16.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 192 |
Featured Reviews
Ginae B. M, Reviewer
To accentuate book theme, Short uses lenses, rather than chapters for book division. She goes further into lenses by suggesting that there are four lenses through which we may view various life events and time periods which proffers great/er insight.
The wisdom and insight is solid. We urge you to step inside the covers. Accept what's there. Grow.
Short ensures that you understand the four lenses with plenty of examples. In fact, understanding them should help to close up that gap which, can exist, between the head and the heart. If you understand the necessary lenses which, can transform you existence, then, you may not need to actually remember the lenses in and of themselves.
Just use them.
Hence, the title.
Love it.
Edmond S, Reviewer
When Changing Nothing Changes Everything is not a positive thinking book; it's a right-thinking book. “The ability to reframe and view yourself in the middle of your story enables you to rest in what is, knowing that it is part of what is taking you to what we will be.” Laurie Polich Short argued that believers need four types of view to appreciate life; big view, present view, past view, and higher view. However, in Chapter 9, Laurie Polich Short assumed all suffering is similar by citing out of context Paul's persecution as a basis for dealing with our personal suffering.
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