Description
A Pretty Good Person offers an achievable plan for being the kind of people we long to be in our innermost hearts. Award-winning author Lewis B. Smedes believes that deep down we all yearn to be "good" and true to our inner voices. We just may not know how to go about it.
In recent years being pretty bad has seemed rewarding. Greedy landlords, wheeler-dealers, political leaders, and yuppies appear to thrive in ease and comfort. Self-help gurus, investment tycoons, and exercise popularizers echo the powerful desires of our egos to feel good, to make good, to look good. Yet Smedes shows us that the pendulum is swinging back to the realization that personal goodness is a positive and attractive power, and the understanding that being good doesn't mean being weak, meek, or powerless. It is the good person who possesses the true strength needed to take risks, be in charge, and love others. Good people lead more exciting lives than bad people!
Rich in wisdom and humor, Smedes's inspiring stories of ordinary people facing everyday life reveal the essential makings of a good person the realistic basic material, "not the supernatural stuff you need for sainthood." With grace and vision, he shows that all of us can make gratitude, guts, simple integrity, self-control, discernment, and fair love an intrinsic part of our lives.
In his best-selling Forgive and Forget, Smedes reflected upon the importance of forgiveness in helping us realize that the kind of people we are dramatically affects the quality of our lives. With A Pretty Good Person, he takes the same incisive look at personal character to reveal that in wanting to live the "good life, we need to become "pretty good people."
ISBN:9780060674106
