What are you going to do with your life?
Subtitle: unpublished essays and diaries
By: Edwin Friedman.
Publisher: Seabury Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781596271142
Subjects: Friedman, Edwin H; Friedman, Edwin H. -- Diaries; Rabbis -- United States -- Diaries; Jewish sermons, American; Life-cycle, Human -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Genres: Diaries
Description: Whether he is interviewing God ("I must be the first since Moses to be allowed into your presence"), preaching on "marriage as music," or reflecting on a visit to his parents' grave, Friedman always has the power to surprise us and invite us to change. This new collection of Edwin Friedman's writings, most of them unpublished, reveal a different side of this rabbi, teacher, and leadership coach who caused a revolution in viewing human relationships with Generation to Generation. Organized into life stages, specifically the journey from young adulthood to maturity and death, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? captures Friedman's signature wit and playfulness as he cuts straight to the heart of human growth and relationships. Throughout his life, Friedman eloquently applied the insights of family therapy to churches and synagogues, organizations and businesses -- and, of course, to families themselves. He energized and delighted a wide public in his lifetime and continues to engage us with What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?, an essential reader for those seeking life-changing insights.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: What are you going to do with your life?; title: Change, too, must change; title: Stop and go; title: "A reason for living": Hebrew Union College diary (1954-1955); title: Three wedding sermons; title: The joy of discovery; title: Systems and ceremonies; title: Rites of passage: when parents are no longer partners; title: The day God prayed; title: An interview with God; title: How to get your mother into a nursing home; title: Old age: condition or diagnosis?; title: "I will not go gently into that good night": diary of November-December 1980; title: Between two cemeteries.