Rebecca here again, well, I don't know if any of our blogs have ever been a book report and I don't necessarily think this one will be exactly that either. I just finished reading The Shack, by Wm Paul Young. This has been a highly debated book, seems people either love it or hate it. It doesn't fit within your normal religious boxes, that is for sure. Since KBC, I have felt I can read books more critically than ever before. This book captured me, read it within about a 24 hour period, simply couldn't put it down, I love books like that. Anyway, whether I agree with every line this man penned or not, there were some significant truths in this book and it really shows how God wants to meet us in the midst of our pain and how much He truly cares about us. Here are some of my favorite quotes:
"...just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable strategies, doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means that I caused it or I need it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors. "
"Guilt'll never help you find freedom in me. The best it can do is make you try harder to conform to some ethic on the outside. I'm about the inside."
"...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image."
"I am not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am far more than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think."
My favorite:
"Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing it's ability to fly. ...pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly. And if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were created to fly in the first place."
My prayer is that I will always remember that I was created to fly! Because knowing who we are in God makes us an incredible threat to the enemy! Praise God!
2 comments:
Hi- I am Leah Miller's sister and am just reading "The Shack" now. I actually just read the part in the book today about God not orchestrating the bad stuff but using it for His good!(Your first favorite quote.) Great stuff!
Thanks for giving it a plug on your blog, I think its a great book for everyone to read to get some new ways of thinking of The Trinity. Makes us think of them in a totally new and fresh way.
Amy in Iowa
Saturday night about midnight I picked up The Shack, but have to admit I was exhausted and never made it past the introduction. I'm glad to get your quotes from the book...makes me more eager to read it!
Kristine
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