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Be The Miracle: 50 Lessons For Making The Impossible Possible (2012)

by Regina Brett(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1455503665 (ISBN13: 9781455503667)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Grand Central Publishing

review 1: The title suggests it's like one of those self-help books that looked like a textbook. But it is not. It's an inspirational book. Every short chapter talks about anecdotes and experiences that will uplift your spirit. Regina Brett doesn't tell you to do this or to do that; she conveys by narrating stories and how these made her realize that the lessons or how-to "guides" we search in having a good, happy life cannot usually be seen on books or TV shows--they are around us. They are on our experiences. Sometimes, we forget, ignore or just don't see those lessons in front of us, and this is where writers like Regina Brett comes along. This book will make you remember and become more aware of how to live a meaningful life. Some of the chapters, though, may come "too religious... more" that it sounded more of a sermon, but the messages were beautiful, nevertheless. You don't need to read it in a single sitting. A chapter a day would be ideal.
review 2: At first, I really liked this book. But then Brett started not just mentioning religion, but seemingly delivering a sermon about it in a number of places and it was just too much to handle. As a journalist myself, I couldn't help but bristle at all the times she mentioned her religion that seemed to point to her doing so within her newspaper's pages, unethical and biased though she may be. I suppose the fact that the word miracle is in the title and her first book was called "God Never Blinks" should have given it away, but for me it was too much. She also frequently drives home the fact that she has friends in recovery, which got old by the end of the book. It seemed like every other story was based on Alcoholics Anonymous' 12-step program. There were also two to three of the 50 essays that I had to skip most of because the author took to just endlessly listing a bunch of hypotheticals, which came across as desperation to fill her pages as deadline neared. Negatives aside, there were some really moving stories of people making a difference in the world in small and often surprising ways, like a man who seemed penniless to many who left an amassed fortune to a local hospital in remembrance of his older sister who died from the burns she suffered after tipping a pot of boiling water on herself when she was just seven. There are a lot of great lessons that can easily be applied to your own life, and certainly enough inspiration to wind you up and get your proverbial top spinning out there in this world. And I think we can all agree that the world could use more miracles in everyday life. less

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