Overcoming Discouragement | Inspirational Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
3.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Listen to episode 886 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Discouragement | Inspirational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Things to Live For by James Russell Miller.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many people throw away their chance in life because of discouragement. But, I hear some of you asking, “Okay, so how can we keep from being discouraged? When the way is hard, when the burdens are heavy, when even our family makes life harder for us, how can we help but being discouraged?”
The answer is this. We need only to ...
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| 1:35.2 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Things to Live for by James Russell Miller, published in 1896. |
| 1:50.3 | We are not apt to think of discouragement as either dangerous or harmful. |
| 1:56.4 | Some people seem to think of it as a rather pleasant experience. |
| 2:01.5 | At least they appear to find a sort of relief and satisfaction, in dropping down now and |
| 2:07.6 | then into a dispirited mood. |
| 2:10.7 | They thus make no effort to overcome their sad disposition, or to climb out of a deep valley of shadows up to the mountain tops |
| 2:20.1 | where the sun is shining. |
| 2:22.6 | They even resent the kindly efforts of those who would help them to be cheerful, as if |
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