Change

I truly believe God works in mysterious ways. When all seems to go down the crapper, He shows us that He's been there all along - we just didn't see Him because we were focusing on everything going down the crapper! I want to live more passionately for what I believe. If I don't have passion, then I have nothing. Living with moderate beliefs is merely existing, just watching life go by without truly participating in it. I just finished this book, Blue Like Jazz. Although I've read it before, the second read definitely gave me more insight. Don't you love that about books? You can read it again and again, and each time you learn something new. That is definitely how I have experienced the Bible time and again. At any rate, I was really moved by Don Miller's passion for truth and meaning, for God...and it made me look at myself and realize how much I have just been living for myself really. Miller makes a sincere point (repeated throughout history by many figures of the great) of how joy cannot be attained by living for your own good self. I've always known this but never practiced it. Yeah, hardly ever. But I want to! I need to...it needs to start with those closest to me. The book reads like a novel, exploring different phases in the author's life as he searches for the object of his passion - it's beautiful, poignant. There is always room to learn and grow, and the journey never ends. I really recommend this book!