Celebrating Life; Finding Happiness in Unexpected Places

Jewish Thought

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Acknowledgements1; Staying Sane in Troubled Times

Part I; Making a Blessing over Life

2; Not Taking Life for Granted3; Live Long, Live Well4; Giving Thanks5; Saved by a Grape6; What Makes the Good News, News7; Letting the Blessings Catch Up

Part II; Affirmations in Unexpected Places

8; The Good News File9; Failure10; God's Script11; Humour and Humanity12; Time Out13; The Fly and the Fly Bottle

Part III; Where Happiness Lives

14; Having It All15; A Lesson in Happiness16; The Third Domain17; Faith Lost18; Faith Found19; The Art of Happiness

Part IV; Finding God

20; The Face of the Personal21; The Mirror of God22; The Voice of Silence23; Listening24; A Question of Faith25; Where We Let Him In

Part V; Faith in the Family

26; Faith Is a Marriage27; Love in a Loveless World28; Fractured Families29; C30; Learning to Love31; Being a Parent32; What We Give Our Children

Part VI; The Moral Voice

33; Our Creation34; The Moral Maze35; Values We Share36; Can We Make Moral Judgements?37; The Hardest Word to Hear38; Civility39; Confidences40; Rights and Duties

Part VII; Communities of Faith

41; Community42; Trust and the Prisoner's Dilemma43; Bowling Alone44; Turning Strangers into Friends45; Where They Know My Name

Part VIII; Faith and Friendship

46; The Dignity of Difference47; A New Way48; Who Best Values Others?49; When We Cannot Worship Together50; Remembering Sir Isaiah51; Cardinal Hume

Part IX; From Optimism to Hope

52; Losing Our Way53; Sifting Hope from Ashes54; Telling the Time55; When Civilizations Grow Old56; Surviving Change57; The Tabernacle58; Faith; The Undiscovered Country

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