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The 8 Habits Of Love (2012)

by Ed Bacon(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1619697513 (ISBN13: 9781619697515)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Hachette Audio

review 1: This book was a quick, easy read that I found delightful. Since my adolescence I have been a seeker of the "best way", always looking for the best in people I surround myself with and the person I see in the mirror each day. I'm a firm believer that when you know better, you do better, especially in human relationships. I enjoy gathering tidbits from people I have met to use in my own life and I found Rev. Bacon to be anything but disappointing. I don't consider this text a self help book as others' reviews have described it to be, but a short book to remind us who we are at our core. Its also a reminder that we are surrounded by others, some who may have done us wrong that initially we want to despise. There are others still who are easy to love but easy or hard to ... morelove, these members of my human family are the same at their core as I am, whether I can initially see them as a valued child of God or not. Basic principles are covered from the Golden Rule, just expounded upon and reworded by the author alongside helpful hints to maintain your center and finding your stillness in difficult times. It's a very quick read, worth the afternoon you will spend with it and who doesn't need to be reminded of the light and love inside of us all from time to time? I will refer back to this text time and again.
review 2: Is love a kind of elusive, nebulous thing, into which one can either fall into or out of-- or is it a verb, a series of choices and actions one can make or not make with each day, in every personal interaction? My conviction is that it is the latter, which begs the question: Practically speaking, how does one love? There is a great manual on just this subject, waiting to be written-- but Bacon's book I don't think is it.This is not to say that the book is lacking in value. Each of the eight chapters provides some actionable insights that are challenging and at times quite moving. However, in crouching his book more in the realm of self-help than theology, many of the details of this book are a little fuzzy. It doesn't help that so much of what Bacon writes it glibly dismissive of Christian orthodoxy (indeed, he is upfront in saying that he thinks much so-called orthodoxy is a result of a "herd mentality, which is not necessarily wrong). He casts aside notions of original sin and human depravity, for instance, and also rejects the concept of truth as something austere and absolute. Discussing the problems that surface is, I think, beyond the scope of a Goodreads review.That said, the book can frustrate-- when it veers into nebulous theology and psychoanalysis, in particular. For its core contention of love as something real, practical, and actionable, though, I applaud it, and I do plan on putting some of its points into action in my own life. less

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