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bethgiven's review
4.0
This was a nice little devotional book with very short, read-in-a-minute chapters highlighting various attributes of Jesus Christ. I particularly appreciated the author's applications of these attributes to her everyday life -- and it wasn't always the same ideas we've heard again and again in Sunday School, either.
I probably could have gotten a lot more out of this book had I taken the time for it -- those tiny morsels were so quick and easy to read that I'd skim through them and then promptly forget the point. No, I didn't internalize the messages very well. That's obviously more my fault than the book's or the author's, though.
Here's a few quotes and passages I found worth highlighting (thanks, Kindle, for making that easy on me at least):
"How often are we running through our day, literally and figuratively, only to miss the people we could have influenced? Moving a little slower might make us more open to those who need our love and encouragement, and likely won’t interrupt the to-do list after all. I often find that when I remember to go about life more slowly and consciously, my to dos are either completed quicker or more conveniently ... Jesus isn’t hurrying down a list of errands or running to a meeting. Instead, He is sitting still and hears the cry for help."
"Then one morning it hit me—my son needed me, and that was the most important use of my time. That was being productive."
"As I read scripture, I see how often it says “might” or “may”—that we might come to Him, that we may have more happiness. He has done every possible thing to make sure that we can be happy, joyful, and fulfilled. And now it’s our turn. We can choose to live life differently, to believe more fully, to understand more deeply His beautiful, functional, and life-giving gospel. To come to know, and love and follow Him more fully. To feel more peace, hope, and surety in this unsure world. And it’s all there, just for us, if we’re willing to receive it, because He loved us enough to make it possible."
I probably could have gotten a lot more out of this book had I taken the time for it -- those tiny morsels were so quick and easy to read that I'd skim through them and then promptly forget the point. No, I didn't internalize the messages very well. That's obviously more my fault than the book's or the author's, though.
Here's a few quotes and passages I found worth highlighting (thanks, Kindle, for making that easy on me at least):
"How often are we running through our day, literally and figuratively, only to miss the people we could have influenced? Moving a little slower might make us more open to those who need our love and encouragement, and likely won’t interrupt the to-do list after all. I often find that when I remember to go about life more slowly and consciously, my to dos are either completed quicker or more conveniently ... Jesus isn’t hurrying down a list of errands or running to a meeting. Instead, He is sitting still and hears the cry for help."
"Then one morning it hit me—my son needed me, and that was the most important use of my time. That was being productive."
"As I read scripture, I see how often it says “might” or “may”—that we might come to Him, that we may have more happiness. He has done every possible thing to make sure that we can be happy, joyful, and fulfilled. And now it’s our turn. We can choose to live life differently, to believe more fully, to understand more deeply His beautiful, functional, and life-giving gospel. To come to know, and love and follow Him more fully. To feel more peace, hope, and surety in this unsure world. And it’s all there, just for us, if we’re willing to receive it, because He loved us enough to make it possible."
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