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No Storm Lasts Forever: Transforming Suffering Into Insight
As a cardiologist, Dr. Terry Gordon dealt with life-and-death circumstances on a daily basis. He learned that life is precious and tenuous; it can change in an instant. Such a dramatic shift occurred when his son, Tyler, was involved in a car accident, sustaining a severe spinal-cord injury that left him paralyzed. Leading his family through the experience, Terry’s journey resulted in a spiritual awakening to a clearer understanding of life and the truths it has to offer. Terry has learned that our experiences become calamities only if we make the conscious decision to make tragedies out of them. Rather than lamenting the so-called adversities, we can choose to be grateful for them, embracing them as gifts from the Divine. These gifts provide fertile soil for growth and enlightenment, offering us the opportunity to transform turmoil, disappointment, and suffering into understanding, insight, and resolve . . . and such gifts are presented to you in No Storm Lasts Forever.
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240 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2012
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November 14, 2015
“Life was perfect!” says Dr. Terry Gordon in reflecting back to June 29, 2009. A successful cardiologist, Gordon and his wife were content in having raised three daughters and a son. The girls were all college graduates and son Tyler had just completed his sophomore year as a business major. Then tragedy strikes. That night Tyler is seriously injured in an auto accident. In a phone call early the next morning Gordon hears these dreaded words from the attending physician, “Your son is quadriplegic.”
In “No Storm Lasts Forever – Transforming Suffering Into Insight” Gordon shares with us his personal thoughts during this tumultuous time. “I have never kept a diary” Gordon writes, yet his son’s accident leads him to describe his frustrations and perceptions as he deals with his son’s injury. Little did he know at the time his diary was to later become this Hay House book – an inspiring tale for anyone going through a personal crisis.
I liked how Gordon relates uplifting stories of people he meets as he deals with his inner turmoil. Before his 40th high school reunion, for example, he reconnects with his first girl friend. He learns Marcia had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 25 years earlier. The one time actress and dancer is now confined to a wheel chair. “I am actually grateful for my disease,” she tells Gordon. “It has taught me more about myself then I ever could have found out otherwise. I learned how not to reject the pain of my adversity – how not to deny or ignore the hurt, but to embrace it as a precious gift from the Divine. I’ve found that by working through my turmoil, I’ve been able to discover goodness within the hardship, and, more important, what lies beyond the suffering.” These words are a comfort to Gordon as he struggles with why his son has to endure such a terrible fate.
Gordon has another chance encounter at an airport with a smiling man in a wheelchair. The author is amazed at the man’s cheery disposition. “His brilliant smile radiated from an enviable inner peace and happiness,” Gordon writes. In talking to the man Gordon gets new insights. “”I’m not going to tell you that the first two or three years were easy for me – they weren’t,” the man says. “They were pure hell. But you know what? At some point (your son) Tyler is just going to have to get over it.” After this encounter Gordon thinks to himself “When (Tyler) decides to change the way he looks at his circumstance, his circumstance will change.”
The book is full of inspiring stories like this as well as Gordon’s own discussions with his son Tyler. Gordon is a nature lover, and often he will describe a nature scene and turn it into a lesson to help him deal with his son’s condition. The title of the book, for example, comes from an encounter with a violent Colorado thunder storm outside Tyler’s hospital room. “Son, even God doesn’t create a storm that lasts forever,” he tells his son. “We must be patient, Ty. The sun will rise again. I promise you.”
I didn’t find the nature analogies as compelling as Gordon’s people stories in the book, but overall I recommend “No Storm” to anyone trying to make sense of a personal tragedy. There are no miracle cures in Gordon’s memoir, Tyler is still a paraplegic, yet Gordon writes, “the most profound thing I have come to accept is that why the Gordons are facing this huge challenge is immaterial. What’s more important is how we’re overcoming it.” The book can give you healing insights, too, in dealing with adversity in your own life.
This is another book review in my partnership with Hay House. I was not financially compensated for this post. I received the book from Hay House for review purposes. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience.
In “No Storm Lasts Forever – Transforming Suffering Into Insight” Gordon shares with us his personal thoughts during this tumultuous time. “I have never kept a diary” Gordon writes, yet his son’s accident leads him to describe his frustrations and perceptions as he deals with his son’s injury. Little did he know at the time his diary was to later become this Hay House book – an inspiring tale for anyone going through a personal crisis.
I liked how Gordon relates uplifting stories of people he meets as he deals with his inner turmoil. Before his 40th high school reunion, for example, he reconnects with his first girl friend. He learns Marcia had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 25 years earlier. The one time actress and dancer is now confined to a wheel chair. “I am actually grateful for my disease,” she tells Gordon. “It has taught me more about myself then I ever could have found out otherwise. I learned how not to reject the pain of my adversity – how not to deny or ignore the hurt, but to embrace it as a precious gift from the Divine. I’ve found that by working through my turmoil, I’ve been able to discover goodness within the hardship, and, more important, what lies beyond the suffering.” These words are a comfort to Gordon as he struggles with why his son has to endure such a terrible fate.
Gordon has another chance encounter at an airport with a smiling man in a wheelchair. The author is amazed at the man’s cheery disposition. “His brilliant smile radiated from an enviable inner peace and happiness,” Gordon writes. In talking to the man Gordon gets new insights. “”I’m not going to tell you that the first two or three years were easy for me – they weren’t,” the man says. “They were pure hell. But you know what? At some point (your son) Tyler is just going to have to get over it.” After this encounter Gordon thinks to himself “When (Tyler) decides to change the way he looks at his circumstance, his circumstance will change.”
The book is full of inspiring stories like this as well as Gordon’s own discussions with his son Tyler. Gordon is a nature lover, and often he will describe a nature scene and turn it into a lesson to help him deal with his son’s condition. The title of the book, for example, comes from an encounter with a violent Colorado thunder storm outside Tyler’s hospital room. “Son, even God doesn’t create a storm that lasts forever,” he tells his son. “We must be patient, Ty. The sun will rise again. I promise you.”
I didn’t find the nature analogies as compelling as Gordon’s people stories in the book, but overall I recommend “No Storm” to anyone trying to make sense of a personal tragedy. There are no miracle cures in Gordon’s memoir, Tyler is still a paraplegic, yet Gordon writes, “the most profound thing I have come to accept is that why the Gordons are facing this huge challenge is immaterial. What’s more important is how we’re overcoming it.” The book can give you healing insights, too, in dealing with adversity in your own life.
This is another book review in my partnership with Hay House. I was not financially compensated for this post. I received the book from Hay House for review purposes. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience.
August 14, 2012
This book was amazing!! It is a must-read whether one is in a "stormy" part of life or not. It is uplifting, motivating and life-changing. What a gift Dr. Terry Gordon and Tyler have shared with the world. Dr.Gordon's experience, told in mini essays, shares the insight and struggles experienced when his son becomes paralyzed after a tragic car accident. The lessons and insights shared by Dr. Gordon become insights he shares with his readers. What an amazing gift Dr. Gordon has given us by sharing these private inner thoughts. Everyone needs to read this book...NOW!!
August 11, 2021
This is an excellent book by a local author about transforming adversity and suffering into insight. He writes from first hand experience. In 2009 his 20-year old son had a near fatal auto accident that left him a quadriplegic. This is his journal from the first four months.
He quotes his friend, Wayne Dyer, “when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Gordon believes everything happens for a reason. It’s on us to choose to use what we see as calamities as opportunities for growth; to accept them as gifts from the Divine.
I found the book inspiring, written with tenderness and honesty. Gordon is retired from his career as a cardiologist and is now a public speaker. I had the honor of hearing him speak about six years ago. He left me wanting to sit down and share a meal with him and glean from his wisdom.
He quotes his friend, Wayne Dyer, “when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Gordon believes everything happens for a reason. It’s on us to choose to use what we see as calamities as opportunities for growth; to accept them as gifts from the Divine.
I found the book inspiring, written with tenderness and honesty. Gordon is retired from his career as a cardiologist and is now a public speaker. I had the honor of hearing him speak about six years ago. He left me wanting to sit down and share a meal with him and glean from his wisdom.
October 7, 2020
This is a fantastic book for a parent experiencing medical hardship with their child, no matter how young or old.
I picked this book up thinking it was going to give me words of wisdom on dark days and a fantastic ending.
Instead, the book was filled with life-changing quotes, outlooks, mind-shifting ways to see things and an insight on how a parent struggles too when their child is enduring hardship.
I would love to have had more information about the son, but it was more about the dad dealing with things.
I would read it again, I have highlighted and tabbed this book for future reference. I would also recommend it to a friend.
Easy to read, not a large book.
I picked this book up thinking it was going to give me words of wisdom on dark days and a fantastic ending.
Instead, the book was filled with life-changing quotes, outlooks, mind-shifting ways to see things and an insight on how a parent struggles too when their child is enduring hardship.
I would love to have had more information about the son, but it was more about the dad dealing with things.
I would read it again, I have highlighted and tabbed this book for future reference. I would also recommend it to a friend.
Easy to read, not a large book.
December 17, 2024
It was a nice little inspirational story about trusting the process life has in store for you but didn't really get a lot from it.
February 19, 2015
NO STORM LASTS FOREVER: TRANSFORMING SUFFERING INTO INSIGHT is basically a series of journal entries with teachings on what the author learned from each.
Three-fourths of the way into the book, however, I still wasn’t clear exactly what Dr. Gordon’ message was.
Everyone—with the exception of the author and at times his son—is depicted as perfect and loving.
Having just two down-to-earth human beings in a book just doesn’t feel realistic for me.
Maybe everyone in his life really is as charitable and flawless and he describes, but I find it hard to open up to his ideas when I can’t relate to his experiences.
His prose is sufficiently decent to go unnoticed until the end of the book, when it gets distractingly sloppy. Repeated words in the same paragraph and even in the same sentence got old fast. Surprising, especially for a traditionally published, international bestselling book.
That said, I was grateful I’d taken the time to read to the very end.
It wasn’t until that final chapter that it hit me and I got his powerful, humbling message.
The sappy sweetness and lousy prose was suddenly forgotten.
His positive, almost annoyingly tolerant and loving attitude towards life lead me to expect a very different conclusion.
Dr. Gordon’s message is not the sum of a bunch of aphorisms and quotes intertwined with life experiences, though at first, it might appear that way. NO STORM LASTS FOREVER runs far deeper than that.
It’s raw, honest, and powerful.
His constant optimism and faith, though at times tiring and downright depressing, left me feeling deeply humbled and appreciative.
I have no idea if NO STORM LASTS FOREVER will affect you as it did me, but I can say that this book could make for a portal to gratitude and insight if you are open to it.
Three-fourths of the way into the book, however, I still wasn’t clear exactly what Dr. Gordon’ message was.
Everyone—with the exception of the author and at times his son—is depicted as perfect and loving.
Having just two down-to-earth human beings in a book just doesn’t feel realistic for me.
Maybe everyone in his life really is as charitable and flawless and he describes, but I find it hard to open up to his ideas when I can’t relate to his experiences.
His prose is sufficiently decent to go unnoticed until the end of the book, when it gets distractingly sloppy. Repeated words in the same paragraph and even in the same sentence got old fast. Surprising, especially for a traditionally published, international bestselling book.
That said, I was grateful I’d taken the time to read to the very end.
It wasn’t until that final chapter that it hit me and I got his powerful, humbling message.
The sappy sweetness and lousy prose was suddenly forgotten.
His positive, almost annoyingly tolerant and loving attitude towards life lead me to expect a very different conclusion.
Dr. Gordon’s message is not the sum of a bunch of aphorisms and quotes intertwined with life experiences, though at first, it might appear that way. NO STORM LASTS FOREVER runs far deeper than that.
It’s raw, honest, and powerful.
His constant optimism and faith, though at times tiring and downright depressing, left me feeling deeply humbled and appreciative.
I have no idea if NO STORM LASTS FOREVER will affect you as it did me, but I can say that this book could make for a portal to gratitude and insight if you are open to it.
September 10, 2015
This book as a little hippy-dippy for me. Universal energy, Devine (other than God)...it was a little weird for me. I cannot even imagine having your life upturned by a life-altering injury. Either your own, or someone close to you. I think everyone will go through this eventually. Your Dad gets cancer, you have a chronic illness...you roll with it the best you can. Maybe this book seemed a little post de facto to me a little, since I have had a chronic illnes (Crohn's Disease) my whole life. Not that I am comparing a spinal cord injury, but the methods used to deal with it, are basically the same, when you cook it down.
February 26, 2013
many good lessons! highlighted many passages - need to go back & copy several to save. book is less about his son & his tragic injury & more of a template on how to handle adversity. wallow in grief or accept what is & move on....
February 19, 2013
Sometimes you need to read something like this...
January 25, 2014
A beautiful journal about one family's dealing with a family tragedy. Outstanding.
June 19, 2015
A very inspirational book that makes us question what suffering really is and whether it truly does exist
February 9, 2016
A gentle reminder to savor the goodness that each day has to offer us.....
February 28, 2016
Very inspirational book, but I wished he would have talked more about his son.
July 9, 2015
Love Terry's perspective on life's heartbreaks...I am sure I will read it again.
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