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What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do: Divorce and Lost Love
What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do: Divorce and Lost Love
What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do: Divorce and Lost Love
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What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do: Divorce and Lost Love

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Based on the incredible success of the book What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do, Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend offer a line of books that address specific crises and some of the most prevalent problems facing our culture today. These books give readers a starting point to deal with their problems. Beautifully designed in a full-color small format, these books are perfect for giving to a friend in distress.

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PublisherThomas Nelson
Release dateJan 18, 2006
ISBN9781418561260
What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do: Divorce and Lost Love
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Henry Cloud

El doctor Henry Cloud es un conferencista de gran popularidad. Junto al doctor John Townsend es anfitrión del programa de radio New Life Live!, además de ambos ser fundadores de la Clínica Cloud-Townsend y de la organización Cloud-Townsend Resources. Es autor de varios libros premiados con el reconocimiento Medalla de Oro, entre ellos Límites y El poder transformador de los grupos pequeños. El doctor Cloud, su esposa y sus dos hijas radican en el sur de California.

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What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do - Henry Cloud

A GIFT FOR

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FROM

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Dr.Henry Cloud

& Dr. Jhon Townsend

What to Do

When You Don’t

Know What

To Do

God Will Make a Way

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WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO:

DIVORCE & LOST LOVE

Copyright © 2005 by Henry Cloud and John Townsend.

Published by Integrity Publishers, a division of Integrity Media, Inc.,

5250 Virginia Way, Suite 110, Brentwood, TN 37027.

HELPING PEOPLE WORLDWIDE EXPERIENCE the MANIFEST PRESENCE of GOD.

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Published in association with Yates & Yates, LLP, Literary Agents, Orange, California.

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

Other Scripture quotations are taken from the following sources:

The Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois. All rights reserved.

Cover and interior design: UDG | DesignWorks,

www.udgdesignworks.com

ISBN 1-59145-353-4

Printed in the United States of America

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Contents

Prologue

PART I: EIGHT PRINCIPLES TO GUIDE YOUR

RECOVERY FROM DIVORCE

1. PRINCIPLE ONE:

Begin Your Journey with God

2. PRINCIPLE TWO:

Choose Your Traveling Companions Wisely

3. PRINCIPLE THREE:

Place High Value on Wisdom

4. PRINCIPLE FOUR:

Leave Your Baggage Behind

5. PRINCIPLE FIVE:

Own Your Faults and Weaknesses

6. PRINCIPLE SIX:

Embrace Problems as Gifts

7. PRINCIPLE SEVEN:

Take Life as It Comes

8. PRINCIPLE EIGHT:

Love God with All You Are

PART II: DIVORCE AND LOST LOVE

PART III: BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY TODAY

Prologue

Iknow it doesn’t feel like it right now, but there is life after divorce." I (John) was having lunch with Michele, a friend of mine who I had known for a long time. She was an attractive, smart woman in her mid-thirties. And she had recently been divorced by her husband, Sean. The breakup had been pretty messy, and she’d been devastated by it all. That’s why she had asked me to lunch, to begin to pick up the pieces of her life.

No, it doesn’t feel like it. I don’t know where to start, Michele said. I mean, I’m having to deal with being really, really hurt, plus figuring out what the single life is about, plus dealing with the kids—and all at one time. It is just overwhelming. How do I handle all this?

I totally agreed with her. Divorce is one of the most painful experiences a person can undergo. It literally tears your life in two, at many levels. You began as a couple with intimacy, passion, desire, and all your dreams. And for whatever reason, the person you were invested in most deeply doesn’t want you anymore. It is a brutal thing.

I told my friend, Well, you are right. Honestly, it is going to be tough for a while, and there is no way around it. But I can tell you the one thing I would do that would go a long way toward helping you get through all this.

What is it?

I would first plug in, get connected to some really good people.

Michele said, So I’m ready to start dating already?

No, no, no, I said. "That’s not the

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