just because God has a great sense of humor, a book i had on backorder was delivered today, shortly after i posted about my compulsion to eat french fries.
h/t to hope, who encouraged me unknowingly to purchase a book that i believe will help in more ways than one...
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Sometimes I think God has a twisted sense of humour! It is a really good book though. Hugs to you, my friend.
Please post a few excerpts that 'speak' to you! I might end up buying ther book myself, sounds right down my street :-)
I read that years ago. Fabulous, fantastic book. I love how May writes about the progression of addition. He says we attach our desires to lesser objects that initially afford us some kind of pleasurable release. That release compels us to attach that desire again to the same object in order to once again feel the release. We become mastered by the interplay between these lesser desires and the objects to which we attach that desire. And in that respect, we can become addicted to virtually anything: drugs, sex, money, clothes, church, power, pride. Dealing with my sexual brokenness was the least of my struggles. It took me only ten years or so to wake up to that kernel of knowledge.
Any time you have a worthwhile book to share w/me (us), please do so! Too often, I have purchased a book, based on the description on the label, and been disappointed. On the other hand, when someone else has been touched, moved or helped by a particular book, and I am able to learn more about it via their personal experience, it not only helps me, but can also be one that I tell others about. "Journey of the Heart" was such a book for me, many years ago now. We spend our whole lives learning & growing, holding on & letting go, falling down & getting up again.... and am I ever grateful for all the sources of help that God has placed into my path, along the way!!
I would encourage you to keep your perspective in this, too. Henri Nouwen's devotional this morning made me think of you:
"To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy, but to be grateful for all of our lives-the good as well as the bad, the moments of joy as well as the moments of sorrow, the successes as well as the failures, the rewards as well as the rejections-that requires hard spiritual work. Still, we are only truly grateful people when we can say thank you to all that has brought us to the present moment. As long as we keep dividing our lives between events and people we would like to remember and those we would rather forget, we cannot claim the fullness of our beings as a gift of God to be grateful for.
"Let's not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God."
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