How to Turn Bad News Into Good

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Listen to episode 1023 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life Hacks: Turning Bad News Into Good. Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Bad news is what seems to upset us most in our efforts to live a triumphant life. We try to fulfill the conditions of what we think is our destiny, and then we begin to look forward to receiving the fruits of our labors. When the particular thing we hope for does not materialize at the particular time we hope to get it, we get disappointed and disheartened, rebellious or frightened, and in a panic we turn away from our faith and grasp at doubt — as if doubt were a refuge when faith fails!

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1:11.3	Welcome to the inspirationalirational Living Podcast.
1:28.6	Today's reading was edited and adapted from Working with God by Gardner Hunting, published in 1934.
1:42.9	Bad news is what seems to upset us most in our efforts to live a triumphant life.
1:51.4	We try to fulfill the conditions of what we think is our destiny, and then we begin to look
1:58.4	forward to receiving the fruits of our labors.
2:01.6	When the particular thing we hope for does not materialize at the particular time we hope to get it,
2:09.6	we get disappointed and disheartened, rebellious or frightened, and in a panic we turn away from our faith and grasp at doubt,
2:21.2	as if doubt were a refuge when faith fails. I knew a man who had a fine job in New York. He was
2:30.1	the editor of a large magazine, a position he had always wanted to have, and his salary was
2:37.0	better than any other salary he had ever had. He lived in a suburb, had a very comfortable
2:45.0	house to live in, and nice furniture and congenial neighbors, and many interesting friends.
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