Optimism: Moral Courage in the Face of Challenges and Change
Categories: Guest Speakers, Audio Sermon
A Sermon from: April 27, 2008
By: Philip Chard
Whether your glass is half empty or half full, there will be times when life will simply shatter it. While some of us can put on a genuinely happy face when beset by disappointments, losses and tragedies, for most of us doing so is a steep hill to climb. Research shows that pie-in-the-sky optimism can be just as ineffective in dealing with life’s toughest challenges as woe-is-me pessimism. But there is another choice called “realistic optimism”. This attitudinal and spiritual posture toward adversity is the foundation for perseverance, courage and personal triumph. We will examine the characteristics of realistic optimism, including how it is learned and applied in our lives.
Philip Chard is a psychotherapist, book author, newspaper columnist and a nationally acclaimed speaker. He writes an award-winning weekly column, called “Out of My Mind”, that appears in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and he is author of the Healing Earth, a groundbreaking work in eco-psychology that received the 1995 Midwest Publishers Award.
Size: 18 MB
A Sermon from: April 13, 2008