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| patchworkpeace |
Posted - May 21 2013 : 07:12:07 AM
Wow! is all I can say. I knew this was a book I had to share with MJF readers when I turned that last page. Rather than try to tell you all I am thinking about this book let me say that I began reading it with concern that it would be preachy and found that it wasn't. Glennon Doyle Melton is laid back and just says what she thinks in her own natural, heartfelt, warm way. She begins by telling where she comes from: drug & alcohol addiction, and then discusses where she is: married to a wonderful man with 3 children and still struggling with life's problems but in a hopeful, encouraging way.
Here are a couple of quotes from the book:
The reason that Mother Teresa served the lepers and destitute and dying in the streets of Calcutta was not because Jesus told her to; it was because Jesus was leprous and destitute and dying in the streets of Calcutta. And since she worshipped Jesus as God, she figured she should probably go help him, because it didn't make a lot of sense to worship God in church while he was dying alone in the streets. And she believed that it was silly to weep when thinking about Jesus being crucified two thousand years ago, yet not weep while watching Jesus crucified today, on the streets of Calcutta or Haiti or D.C. or in the high school hallway.
Mother Teresa saw God in every human being, and when she held a dying leper and dressed his wounds, she did not imagine that she was helping Jesus die with dignity. She was holding, as she would have said, "Jesus in the distressing disguise of the poor."
One more quote:
You are Love. You cannot be tarnished by anything you've done or that anyone else has done to you. Everyone carries this piece of me-this perfect Love. You are all a part of me, and I am part of you, and you are a part of each other. The essence of each of you is Love.
Has anyone else read this book? If so, what did you think?
Success is measured not by the position one reaches but by the obstacles one has to overcome to reach it. Booker T. Washington
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