"God has an agenda and it is not only not ours, it frequently and constantly interferes with and opposes ours. We are used to thinking in terms of God helping us in our life, that our life is "our story" and we invite God to participate in it, and that is so bass ackwards. It is God's story, God's world, God's life, and we get to participate in it. "
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- Better: A Surgeon's Notes On Performance, by Atul Gawande
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- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared M. Diamond
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- Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
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- Mother Teresa's Secret Fire, by Joseph Langford
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- The End of Food, by Paul Roberts
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- The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer
- The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
- The Reason For God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, by Tim Keller
- This Is Your Brain On Music, by Daniel J. Levitin
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Msion to Promote Peace...One School at a Time, by Greg Mortenson and David Relin (reviewed 1-5-09)
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3 comments:
My "agenda" definitely needs to be adjusted.
Just yesterday your son told me that he thinks God is calling me to work with the women in our church. (I know He is, but I'm trying to stall. Maybe if I shut my eyes real tight I'll become invisible, and God won't see me and pick somebody else! Riiiight...)
I don't think I'm ready, yet something profound happened to me today. After the worship service, a young lady confirmed what Matt said yesterday by asking me to mentor her.
Oh boy...I know good and well that wasn't "coincidence."
I was trying to delay the inevitable, but if I want to call myself "obedient," then I have to act like it, right?
Mentoring someone who wants to go into full-time ministry was not in my plans for the summer. I suppose, however, that now is as good a time as any to start re-arranging my agenda, eh?
Michelle-LOL! You just got your adgenda adjusted big-time! I know you'll do a great job!
Oops, that's "agenda". Too much cold medicine!
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