I Heard God Laugh: A Practical Guide to Life's Essential Daily Habit

by Matthew Kelly

Overview

Is Your Life Working? Most of us are trying to put together the jigsaw puzzle we call life without a very important piece. Over time this becomes incredibly frustrating. In this extraordinary book, Matthew Kelly powerfully demonstrates that we cannot live the life we have imagined, or experience the joy we yearn for, unless we learn to tend the soul. From there, with his classic style of practical wisdom, he teaches us how to remedy this problem. When our bodies are hungry, our stomachs growl. When our souls are hungry, we become irritable, restless, confused, overwhelmed, exhausted, anxious, discontent, and tend to focus on the things that matter least and neglect the things that matter most. Are you taking care of your soul? Are you feeding it and nurturing it? Or are you ignoring it and neglecting it? The reality is, most people have never really been taught how to tend their souls. I Heard God Laugh will help you to do just that, and so much more. If you ever wondered how Matthew Kelly has been able to write and speak the way he has over the past three decades, he is about to share his secret with you. As he shares what transformed his life, along with intimate details of his own journey and struggle, he teaches us how to apply the great spiritual lessons learned to our own lives. At every turn he floods the reader with hope and demonstrates unmistakably that the best is yet to come!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781635821390
Publisher:	Blue Sparrow
Publication date:	08/15/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	374,924
File size:	798 KB

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Unexpected Life 1

A Question to Begin 3

The Missing Piece 4

The Habit 5

The Promise of This Book 8

Finding Your Reason 9

Habit and Potential 13

The Challenge 15

Soul Note 17

Part 2 My Spiritual Journey 19

The Invitation: Ten Minutes a Day 20

The First Surrender 22

The Day My Life Changed Forever 24

My Hope for You 32

Soul Note 33

Part 3 Life's Essential Habit 35

Teach Us to Pray 35

Sharing the Joy 37

The Prayer Process 41

Your Best Days 45

The Basics 48

What Is Your Image of God? 51

There Is Power in a Name 56

Begin Today 60

Soul Note 63

Part 4 Six Powerful Spiritual Lessons 65

The Longest Journey 66

Six Seismic Shifts 67

The First Shift: Begin the Conversation 68

The Second Shift: Ask God What He Wants 69

The Third Shift: Give Yourself to Prayer 71

The Fourth Shift: Make Yourself Available 73

The Fifth Shift: Just Keep Showing Up! 77

The Sixth Shift: Just Keep Showing Up! 83

Six Life-Changing Awakenings 85

Soul Note 87

Part 5 The God who gave us Laughter 89

Does God Have a Sense of Humor? 89

I Heard God Laugh 93

The Deep Waters 97

The Delight of God 100

Busy Is Not Your Friend 104

Soul Note 109

Epilogue: Do you Hear That? 111