HAVE A BEAUTIFUL, TERRIBLE DAY! (Convergent) is packed with bite-sized reflections and action-steps to help you get through the day. Good days. Bad days. Totally mediocre ones. This is a devotional for the rest of us, which is to say, the people who don’t always have magical lives that work out. Written in a season of chronic pain, Bowler understands that every day can be an obstacle course. She encourages us to develop our capacity to feel the breadth of our experiences. The better we are at identifying our highs and lows, the more resilient we become.
Like a modern-day psalmist, Bowler’s spiritual reflections look for the ways we can expand our capacity for courage, love, and honesty—while discovering divine moments with God. With bonus sections to use during the seasons of Advent and Lent, this is an easy book to read along with others too.
If you want to build your daily habit of spiritual attentiveness, this book is here to say: May all your days be lovely. But if they aren’t, have a beautiful, terrible day!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kate Bowler is the three-time New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason, No Cure for Being Human, Good Enough, The Lives We Actually Have, Blessed, and The Preacher’s Wife and hosts the popular podcast Everything Happens. A Duke University professor, she earned a master’s of religion from Yale Divinity School, and a PhD at Duke University. @KateCBowler/ www.KateBowler.com
PRAISE FOR KATE BOWLER
“Kate Bowler is the only one we can trust to tell us the truth.”
—Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed
“Bowler offers an alternative to the good vibes/prosperity gospel approach: honesty with room for mystery and humor.” —New York Times Book Review, “Inside the List”
“This interior monologue about her cancer battle and her life is unputdownable in its blunt honesty, soulfulness, and vulnerability.” —Zibby Owens, Katie Couric Media
“I have long admired [her.] Kate has an amazing ability to honor heartbreak and evoke smiles, at once.”
—On Being’s Krista Tippett
“No Cure For Being Human is an amazing resource. So I hope everyone whom this topic touches will remember No Cure.” —Dax Shephard, host of Armchair Expert
“Kate Bowler is a truth teller who shows us how to hold the terrible and the beautiful in one hand. No Cure For Being Human is a must read for anyone whose life has been bifurcated into a before and after—which is to say all of us. In this roadmap though the messy middle, Bowler’s words are a soothing balm, like a late-night conversation with a best friend. Every page shimmer with wit and wisdom.”
—Suleika Jaouad, author of Between Two Kingdoms
“This is a remarkably poignant memoir about what it means to be human. With grace, wisdom, and humor, Kate Bowler encourages us to cut back on self-help Kool-Aid and teaches us how to make more of our lives.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again
