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A book I need to pick up. ;)

BOOK PICK: New EWTN Publishing release focuses on relationships, replete with the signature insights (and humor) of the Catholic psychologist.

‘Why Is He Like This?’

A video features a young man who, early one morning, comes across what looks to be an ordinary pair of sunglasses.

Donning them, he soon finds they are anything but ordinary, as they reveal to him others’ inner struggles. His restaurant server at breakfast botches his order. The glasses tell him: Earlier she was forced to leave her ill child with a neighbor. Upon the man’s seeing a densely tattooed, disheveled teenager, the glasses reveal that she had to choose premature self-reliance over a chaotic home life. On appearances alone, the man’s blind judgment would have been hasty and hard. Without the glasses, he wouldn’t have been aware that the driver cutting him off was in a panicked rush to get his son to the emergency room. Instead, he would have bristled with “What’s his problem?”

One doesn’t need soul-searching sunglasses to know that most everyone walks through life with hidden hurts and struggles. It’s often the explanation, though not always obvious, to “Why is he like this?”



A Difficult Person


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