"I wanted to learn to conquer stress, not just cope with it. Stress was too often dredging up my dark side, subverting my family life, and shuffling sane priorities. I hungered for a peace that would break its grip...and I found it. I found that the pursuit of peace is ultimately the pursuit of a Person--God." For years, author, speaker, and youth counselor Ronald Hutchcraft lived a high-adrenalin lifestyle--pushed and pulled in a hundred different directions by his job, his family, and his friends. It didn't worry him, however, because everyone he knew lived the same way. Then he had a "showdown with stress." He realized that what's common isn't necessarily normal, and "overheated living is not normal." "We live in a world," says Hutchcraft, "that worships high achievers." We want as much as fast as we can. Despite doctors' warnings about stress and increased social awareness of its ill effects, we continue to be driven by a "barrage of pressures, demands, deadlines, aggravations, and ambitions. We're running hard--and we're burning out." Is there an answer to the self-destructive high-wire act most of us perform daily? There is, and it is suprisingly simple. It involves nothing more--or less--than a conscious desire to actively seek peace in your life rather than turmoil, remembering God's promise of "My peace I give you" (John 14:27). Most people make the mistake, says Hutchcraft, of waiting for peace to come to them instead of pursuing it. "I had been looking for a way to let peace happen to me," he admits, "instead I found a way to make it happen with God's help." By far the most important message of 'Peaceful Living in a Stressful World' is to know when to "trust God"--to rest safely and calmly in the knowledge that God wants you to be happy, healthy, and in control of stress, and He'll do everything to help you stay that way., ISBN13:B000O9M36G ISBN10:B000O9M36G Material Type:hardcover