Life: One to a Customer

by Elaine Cannon

Life allows no reruns, no retakes - just one to a customer. Yet as Elaine Cannon points out, sometimes we are so busy existing that we forget to live. She offers suggestions on how to make this one-of-a-kind experience sparkle. In the book's four sections, four aspects of living come under the author's perceptive eye - Growing, Choosing, Remembering, Linking. Principles such as change, self-control, and trouble seen as a gift, represent the growth. Perspective, free agency, and ever differing views call for choice, discernment, decision. Memory relives beauty, freedom, and other exercises in joy. Links tie soul to soul in priceless and everlasting associations, especially in families. The author adds life to life with appealing stories and examples that light up every page. This one-time life, she indicates, is an exciting adventure.

Genres: Church

148 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Elaine Cannon was a former general president of the Young Women organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Before receiving that call, she was a member of the Mutual Improvement Association’s governing board and the Church’s curriculum planning, writing, activities, and correlation committees.
She also served as associate editor of Church magazines for youth and their leaders. Lecturing extensively throughout the world, she has had opportunities to meet members of the Church of all ages and nationalities.
Elaine authored or coauthored more than 50 books and has recorded dozens of talk on tapes. Among her books are Adversity, Baptized and Confirmed: Your Lifeline to Heaven, Choose the Right, Women Testify of Jesus Christ, The Truth About Angels, and three "Little Books": The Little Book of Big Ideas about Hope, The Little Book of Big Ideas about Joy, and The Little Book of Big Ideas about Love, her latest.
For thirty years she was a daily columnist for intermountain newspapers. She has hosted her own TV show and was a featured speaker on a weekly radio program broadcast internationally.
Elaine Cannon passed away in 2003 at the age of 81.

Reviews

[Theresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I struggled to engage in this book. Great inspiration though. Consider reading only a chapter at a time. Not like a novel, which is what I tried.

[angelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good info.