Heartwarming book offers stories of inspiration
BOOK REVIEW: July 2009
Compiled by John Castagnini, an author, speaker and organizer of self-help/self-healing seminars, Thank God I …™ is the second volume of inspirational stories all based on the premise of gratitude for some life-changing event. Each installment (chapter) is authored by someone different whose life has been forever turned by a particular occurrence or eventuality that gave him or her insight he or she would never have had before.
Some of the subject/chapter titles are: “Thank God I Was Physically Abused;” “Thank God I Went to Prison;” “Thank God I Am Blind;” “Thank God I Was Fat, Ugly, Poor, Divorced, and Live in Chronic Pain;” “Thank God I Came from a Dysfunctional Family;” “Thank God I Wasn’t Who I Thought I Was;” “Thank God I Was Raised in Chaos;” “Thank God I Was a Single Teenage Mother;” “Thank God I Love Being Me;” “Thank God I Lost My Child;” “Thank God For Disillusionment;” “Thank God for Toxic Parents;” “Thank God for Accidents.” And these are just a few examples.
Castagnini himself described that the author of “Thank God My Son Died,” from Volume 1, was able to look deep enough and find all the parts that her son represented to her in her life in other people around her whom she loved. By embracing and understanding that energy and matter could not be created or destroyed, but only change form, this author came to honor the new forms of her son. When the author, a woman, missed her son, she would simply look at what she was missing and then find that present. When she discovered that she could find what she thought was missing every time, she no longer mourned his loss. Instead she carried him closer in her heart.
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