I finished reading Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller today.
BRILLIANT BOOK. I love Donald Miller's mind. The way he sees things, interprets things, analyses things.. it's amazing. I know I haven't shared any passages from this book before, but it's hard to really lift any of them out of the context of the rest of the book. For example, below is one passage that I wanted to share while I was reading:
"And then I started thinking about my own life, how I need people to love me and like me and how, if they don't, I feel miserable and sad and how I am tempted to believe what they are saying about me is true. It is as though the voice God used to have has been taken up by less credible voices. And when I think about this I know that Genesis 3 is true; I know without a doubt I am a person who is wired so that something outside myself tells me who I am. I am not trying to say I have some kind of terrible dysfunction or anything, it's just that other people's opinions, after the Fall, have become very important, and if everybody says that Saab cars are cool, then I want a Saab car, and if people say that a certain kind of music is cool, then I am more likely to listen to that kind of music. And all this made me realize that the alien was right, and that Adam and Eve had it a great deal better before they ate the fruit." (pg. 95)
Isn't it a great passage? It is so true. But why does he mention an alien? Well, you'll find out when you read the book. He shows us a couple different, yet similar, ways in which to interpret humanity/life/the world and it's really eye-opening. It's all been right here in front of us the entire time, but I never really thought about things this way. Near the end of the book he presents Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in a way that was mind-blowing to me. Maybe not to everyone else, but to me it was whoa. The whole book is like that. He takes everyday life and reveals the truth behind it, if that makes any sense.
Anyway, I highly recommend it.
I'm tempted to continue on my Donald Miller reading journey, but I think it's time to also give some other books I have a chance. So the next time I go to the gym, I will be bringing The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning with me.
BRILLIANT BOOK. I love Donald Miller's mind. The way he sees things, interprets things, analyses things.. it's amazing. I know I haven't shared any passages from this book before, but it's hard to really lift any of them out of the context of the rest of the book. For example, below is one passage that I wanted to share while I was reading:
"And then I started thinking about my own life, how I need people to love me and like me and how, if they don't, I feel miserable and sad and how I am tempted to believe what they are saying about me is true. It is as though the voice God used to have has been taken up by less credible voices. And when I think about this I know that Genesis 3 is true; I know without a doubt I am a person who is wired so that something outside myself tells me who I am. I am not trying to say I have some kind of terrible dysfunction or anything, it's just that other people's opinions, after the Fall, have become very important, and if everybody says that Saab cars are cool, then I want a Saab car, and if people say that a certain kind of music is cool, then I am more likely to listen to that kind of music. And all this made me realize that the alien was right, and that Adam and Eve had it a great deal better before they ate the fruit." (pg. 95)
Isn't it a great passage? It is so true. But why does he mention an alien? Well, you'll find out when you read the book. He shows us a couple different, yet similar, ways in which to interpret humanity/life/the world and it's really eye-opening. It's all been right here in front of us the entire time, but I never really thought about things this way. Near the end of the book he presents Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in a way that was mind-blowing to me. Maybe not to everyone else, but to me it was whoa. The whole book is like that. He takes everyday life and reveals the truth behind it, if that makes any sense.
Anyway, I highly recommend it.
I'm tempted to continue on my Donald Miller reading journey, but I think it's time to also give some other books I have a chance. So the next time I go to the gym, I will be bringing The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning with me.
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