Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves

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Summary: The whole truth about human relations
Review: This is, simply and without hyperbole, one of the most important books I know of today. If everyone could understand what it reveals about us, the world would be a much different place. It's substance rings true. It is simple but not obvious, in fact, largely hidden from the vast majority of people. It explains how, in our confusion with relationships, often what seems like the obvious thing to do is the worst thing to do. And yet the right thing to do is right in front of us, completely invisible. But once you see it, you recognize it as the truth.

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Summary: Perennial truth expressed brilliantly
Review: Warner has discover a truth known since the beginnig of time. He has done an oustanding job conveying the truth in understanding language. His discovery has been given to us by God in the Bible. It's all there: our condition, our blindness, the need to see that we are the problem, not others. G.K. Chesterton once answered to a group of news editors to the question, What's wrong with the world?, " I am wrong with the world". After realizing that we have a problem, which makes us guilty, the Bible tells us about Jesus who took the guilt upon himself, forgave us and gives us the freedom to forgive others and love them us he has loved us, knowing that we will treat people from within the box. Without a change of heart there is no real love towards others. Warner has hit on an unavoidable reality.

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Summary: Help @ home and work
Review: What a difference it has made in our family. It has breathed new life into our efforts to raise our children. Also, my business partners and I have applied the same principles at work and are amazed at the results. "Bonds" is required reading for all leaders in our company.

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Summary: Gaga Over This...
Review: Why didn't I learn this stuff twenty years ago? "Bonds" is spellbinding...right from the preface. Get this line: '...we devise and hang on to our emotioanl problems for a purpose, a purpose more important than our happiness." Stop right there. I drank in the rest of the book in three readings. I always had this nagging feeling I was resisting happiness, but I had never really ventured inot why. Through riveting stories and prfound assumptions about who we are, Warner gives the most incisive, authentic, grounbreaking treatments of interpersonal and personal choice and change I've ever come across--what a contrast from the popular self-help potions I've read till I thought I had my fill, though I never quite got there...