THE HIDDEN GIFTS of HELPING

by

STEPHEN G POST

ISBN: 9781470887813

Hardback 224 pages

Jossey Bass, A Wiley Imprint publisher

Research has revealed that when we show concern for others—empathizing with a friend who has lost a loved one, mowing the lawn for an elderly neighbor, or volunteering to mentor a school-aged child—we improve our own health and well-being and embrace and give voice to our deeper identity and dignity as human beings.
In this moving book, Stephen G. Post helps us discover how we can make “helping” a lifetime activity. The Hidden Gifts of Helping explores the very personal story of Post and his family’s difficult move and their experience with the healing power of helping others, as well as his passion about how this simple activity—expressed in an infinite number of small or large ways—can help you survive and thrive despite the expected and unexpected challenges life presents.
Post’s story is intertwined with supporting scientific research and spiritual understanding. This book can become your companion and guide to the power of giving, forgiving, and compassion in hard times.
The Hidden Gifts of Helping will leave you with the unshakable feeling that the world can be a good place if we act to make it so.

“We can be anywhere, so long as we are helping others and caring for them. This is probably the one source of stability in our lives that we can truly depend on, and so in the end we are never really out of place.”

—Stephen G. Post

I love to help others and can do that better than except help myself.  It make me feel so good to do something for someone.  This book is just about that, giving of ourselves to help others.  It shows that by doing so we are doing what Jesus commented us to do as the Bible verse says "All this you do for others you do until me" now this may not be exactly what it says but I know I have read this in the Bible.  Jesus commands we Christians to help others and to feed the hungry and to help clothe the naked.  I don't believe in just handing out anything just because they are too lazy to work and get it for themselves as we see so many in America doing.  But if they really have a need, not something they want but need then we should help them.

Stephen's book talks about moving from one place and one job to another, he writes that this is a Spiritual understanding as we look inside ourselves and gain more strength of our faith.  This book can be picked up anytime that we need help ourselves and read a little of it to help make us understand more of what life is all about.

This book was sent to me by The B and B Media Group for my review.