Well I'm apparently roaring through the non-fiction books. I read this one in a week or so, but it was easy reading. And it was what I needed in this crazy season of life.
If you need balm for the soul, Max Lucado's book, You'll Get Through This is it. It reads like poetry, provides plenty of tongue-in-cheek humor, and is full of real life stories that remind readers to hope in God. In chronicling Joseph's story, Lucado sets forth 15 principles that should change the way readers view trials. "You'll get through this," he writes. "God will make good out of this mess." I wouldn't say that Lucado's ideas are necessarily new, but they are very succinct and very quotable. I'd argue that Lucado takes a bit too much creative liberty in places (like when he talks about Joseph's brothers taking pickup trucks to Egypt), but his wry sense of humor makes them tolerable. Lucado isn't really claiming to be a theologian, either. He's a pastor who's trying to help believers apply biblical truths to real life. And I think his book does just that.
Has anyone else read this book? Please share your thoughts after reading the book below.
I'm not a voracious reader like my friend, but I'm trying to read more as part of my #bucketlistproject. One of the assignments I gave myself was reading a self-help book. I already had Unglued by Lysa TerKeurst, so I made that my goal. I recently finished it, and here's my word cloud and review:
Bestselling author and president of Proverbs 31 ministries Lysa TerKeurst examines emotions and their outflow in her book, Unglued. She approaches emotions from both scientific and spiritual aspects, explaining how both science and faith play into feelings. She explores expectations, corrupt motives, emptiness, stress, lost joy, and the survival mentality as causes for unglued emotions, but also gives grace to women who come unglued. TerKeurst doesn't tout herself as above becoming unglued, either, and instead cites numerous personal stories to show how she, too, struggles with overwhelming emotions. TerKeurst points to unglued emotions as opportunities to learn, to grow, to bring emotions under Jesus' authority, and to make plans that prevent unglued emotions from damaging others. All in all, this is a solid and accessible read. I'd recommend it for any woman, but especially for those who shame themselves for how they feel.
Has anyone else read this book? If yes, what did you learn from it? Please share in the comments section.
I'm trying something new today. After finally finishing reading the book Wild and Free, by Jess Connolly and Hayley Morgan, I typed up the quotes that stuck out to me and created a word cloud:
I thought I'd also share my a bullet point book review:
Agreements:
-God has already won our freedom, so we don't need to strive for it.
-Our lives are about God's glory, not our own.
-We need community to thrive as wild and free women.
Disagreements:
-We're God's treasures, not God's tools.
-What about Ephesians 2:10, which says, " For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do?"
-Can we find identity as treasures of God so that He can use us as his tools, too?
Take-away:
-“Everyone wants to know a free woman's secret. The secret is Jesus. Because He has set us free” (p. 226).
What do you think of this type of post? Would you like to see more posts like it in the future? Please comment below.
