My soul craves.
Thoughts, but more blurbs concerning Soul Cravings:
I’m borrowing this book from my newly-found-friend Will.
Dan had mentioned this book to me over the summer, but I hadn’t gotten around to buying the book. I’m excited.
I read the first 3 or 4 chapters last night. I’m not gonna lie, I really started crying within the first couple sentences.
No, wait. Now that I think about it… it wasn’t till the third or fourth page of the first chapter did any of that blubbering happen. I laughed right at the beginning…
“I wake up each morning reminded that all I need to face the day is to breathe deeply of fresh air and to find my way to the nearest Starbucks.”
Before you condemn me, let me assure you it’s not an addiction but an appreciation. I can quit anytime, and so I don’t need to. I’m convinced coffee is an acquired taste. The aroma is better than the flavor, not to mention the compelling nature of the effect.”
--Erwin Raphael McManus
Back to crying… Perhaps, it was because of the time. It was late when I started reading. OR it’s just because I can be crazy-sensitive sometimes.
Anyway, the book is SO [meaning, very] appropriate for exactly how I’ve been feeling for quite sometime now.
“There are cravings within me… …that pull on me like an addiction.”
--Erwin Raphael McManus
This encouraged me: "[he] ...never found the help to figure himself out.”
“We’re all struggling to figure ourselves out.”
“Jesus once said that the Kingdom of God is within us. Yet most of us don’t even bother to explore the possibility that this might be true. It seems that what he is implying is that we have a better chance of find God in the universe within us than in the one the surrounds us.”
“My soul was confused and cold and growing calloused, and I was quickly becoming blind to so many things. When your soul is sick, one of the symptoms is blindness.
Bitterness, for instance, is like a cancer that makes you blind. I had allowed hurt to make my soul toxic. From my end, I was sure that I was just becoming realist. In fact, I was desensitizing myself. Why risk being hurt more? I didn’t realize I was becoming blind to love.”
“Bitterness turned to skepticism, which turned to cynicism, which turned to an emptiness of my soul.
Bitterness is the enemy of love because it makes you unforgiving and unwilling to give love unconditionally.
It is the enemy of hope because you keep living in the past and become incapable of seeing a better future.
It is the enemy of faith because you stop trusting in anyone but yourself." [WOW, if you knew me… you would know how deeply this book is affecting me].
“…a journey of self discovery” [which is one of my favorite things, if not my actual favorite thing :)].
“The following pages reflect my journey, and I invite you to join me on my search. I’ve never believed you can or should even try to force God on someone. This book is my gift to you who are on a genuine search for God. I say it is a gift because I know I can’t expect you to open your soul if I do not bare my own
My soul craves.
If your does too, then let’s travel together for a while.”
--Erwin Raphael McManus
I wrote these quotes in here to share and to remember them. The book is not mine.
--Pate
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