Lessons from the Porch: A Gathering Place for Telling Our Stories

by Ed Poole

Featuring a thoughtful journey and a reminiscence, this book allows readers to consider questions such as: Have you wondered how you arrived at your current stop along your journey? Have you ever... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972074007
• ISBN13: 9780972074001
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Lessons for Your Journey
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

"Lessons" lead to a journey

Lessons from the Porch is a must read for anyone searching for meaning and wholeness in their life. Lessons will encourage and enable you to begin a healthy, life changing, and most likely long overdue journey towards peace, understanding and wholeness in your life. The author's effective use of the art of storytelling causes the 22 lessons contained within to come alive, encourages self-reflection and ultimately sets you on the path towards finding the true meaning in your life.Lessons encouraged me to stop and examine the "me" I had become -how the past, the present and the relationships throughout my life had molded me. Lessons compelled me to enter the depths of my heart and soul, to begin a self-examination, and to allow the "me" that was inside, screaming to get out, begin to surface.The person I am today evolved as a result of the influences of both my roots and experiences. Lessons from the Porch encouraged me to reflect and celebrate many of those experiences. It also urged me to take the big step towards identifying those experiences that needed to be dealt with and put to rest, as well as those that I simply needed to let go of. Rather than continuing to wear the masks that had me living my life the way I thought others expected, I realized it was time to live "my" life - one in which the real me surfaced - recognizing that this is not only "OK," but the right thing to do.I continually find myself returning to Lessons, gaining additional insight and prompting more self-reflection. Lessons has caused me to closely examine the reflection emitting from my personal full-length mirror and realize the potential within to not simply accept the reflection, but to continue to shape it into one that truly mirrors my soul. As this growth process continues, I am certain I will continue to return to Lessons for additional insight and meaning in my life. The impact Lessons from the Porch is having on my life goes beyond words. As I read and re-read the stories contained within, the resulting laughter and tears are hard to contain. The emotions indicate a connection to the stories, the lessons and to the journey along the road to truly connecting with myself.If you're searching for truth and meaning in your life - who you are, what you're doing, or where you're heading - Lesson from the Porch will encourage you to begin, or continue, on that journey. As I move along on the journey that Lessons has encouraged me to embark upon, I am finding the path is not always clear. It is at these times that I return to Lessons and find the encouragement to continue on.