The Positive Family

(...)What a treasure. Mrs. Schuller talks frankly and candidly about child rearing, being a team player in the marriage, and about overcoming adversity. When Mrs. Schuller talks about these things, they're in the context of the family experience, including the struggles of the early days of the Schuller marriage. One Schuller child had a leg amputated due to a motorcycle accident. Mrs. Schuller lost her left breast to cancer. This is life's real stuff, and she has been graciously open about it. I related to many of the stories she told since in my '40s, I came down with post-polio syndrome and literally had to learn how to walk again, write again, play piano again. As a composer, part of my career was put on hold for several years before I could get the breakthrough needed to come back. I really appreciated the Schuller family's ABCs approach to problem solving - accept, believe, commit, for this is required if one is to be resilient and not quit when life doesn't go as planned or hoped for, and you feel that God has thrown you away. But He hasn't. When you read what the Schuller family has been through, you won't watch The Hour of Power quite the same way again. How easy to think that a fellow preaching in a big glass cathedral could be problem free and life perfect all around him. But Mrs. Schuller teaches effectively life is not that way, that pastors on TV are real people with the same family issues you and I have. And I found that comforting and reassuring, and perhaps just a tad freeing. Mrs. Schuller's book won't win a Pulitzer, or a Nobel Prize. But it will lift you up. It's a good read. It's worth the price no matter where you buy it. Someone foolishly let their copy go. I'm keeping mine.