I took a couple of months to read this book, not because I couldn't have knocked it out in a weekend. I took so long because we had 3 birthdays, 2 anniversaries, a family reunion, a two bedroom apartment to pack up, job search...Get the picture? LOL! I couldn't have picked a more perfect time to read this book. This may come as a shocker to some (HA!), but I can get really caught up in the details. I makes lists, schedules, plans, and scripts for my life. Often missing the big picture and the important things. I also may or may not try to impose the script on my close family and I may or may not let them in on it. Of course, if someone should go off script they are added to another one of my lists...and not the good one!
Shauna Niequist addresses all that. She talks about saying no to make room for yeses. She talks about how we are to be stewards of our lives. They are God's gift to us and ours to him. She also talks about...and this hits home...how we even try to control our faith walk. We try to complicate salvation. God's plan does not need to confer with my lists. His presence is perfect... perfect just the way it is if we listen and wait.
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