THE BIBLE!
okok yes, i was actually thinking about the book i just bought,but as i typed that phrase the 'bible' just popped back. i'm so excited to be doing DISCIPLE! and i REFUSE, TOTALLY REFUSE to drop out halfway unless i realy have to:(
anyway the book is 'things i want my daughters to know' by elizabeth noble. it's not like a popular writer like jodi picoult (i have one of her books, the sister's keeper and i absolutely loved it to) but i think it's awesome. i'm the kinda person who buys books on impulse. i see a good book, i get it. i read it and i'm done with it. i'm not the library kinda person. i think i'd spend half the time sneezing instead of reading. haha shouldn't be so bad now., but partly cos when i get stuck on a good book, i REALLY get stuck. and now my shoulders feel super stuck cos right after that i went to practice. i think it's gonna be some occupational hazard thing. need to RUN or smthing, swim, CYCLE! KAYAK (in this heat?!?!)
anyway i don't think this is copyrighted, but since i quoted that it's FROM THE BOOK. i really REALLY liked some stuff inside. Think about it, it really makes a lot of sense.
this is one of those strange times that you know you're subconsciously thinking about things, or having things bogging you at the back of your mind. You don't really tell God then and there that u want Him to get you a book that addresses these things, but you did tell him sometime, one of those many qt sessions. and it's only after reading through the book that i'm thinking, HEY maybe it was God really inching me on to get the book. hahaha nonsensical i sound crazy over the story. but i usually glaze thru the bookstands at popular cos i get tired of seeing familiar author's names, and the usual CHILD abuse stories (which ARE SAD, i read some child prostitute one which was so sad), and all the mystery, love, or bimbo ones. HAHA and this one seemed to make sense., YES SO ANYWAY I SHLD GET ON WITH THIS!!! hahaha i finished the book! and i'm pretty satisfied for awhile. probably won't pick up another one too soon cos then it steals some time for other things. shall leave some really nice parts that made sense to me. hmmm and of course some parts i can't type cos it's hard to type a 'scene'. OH and the only disclaimer is that i had to skim through the delicate details, sometimes, TMI.
'I shouldn't be in this state, I'm supposed to be stronger than this!'
sound familiar? the response in the next paragraph only.
'That's half your trouble. You make these rules for yourself and they're impossible. YOu spend the whole time beating yourself up for not being perfect. And you don't realise how great you are...'
'Go, live, love.'
She felt like she was failing all the people she loved.
felt like that.havne't you?
If you forgive her, you have to forgive 100%. And if you forget, you have to forget forever.
If neither one of you drew attention to the widening gap between you, you could pretend it didn't exist.
(On Holiday friendships made): The person you were making friends with had no former preconceptions about you.
'None of that matters, you see. (the problems etc). It's all very simple. When you love someone, really love someone.
i really like that. There's a lot more, and many times i found myself shaping up into different ones of those girls and feeling as though i understood exactly. It's like asking the same questions she asked herself, and maybe, just maybe, i've found the answers.
haha just that american culture is so. free. it's TOO FREE -.- so i replace the reference to their 'premarital sex' relations to something of a degree much LESS, like a date. seriously man! world is corrupted bad.
the reality of life is that im' not that old anymore. no more teenage ignorance. i don't know what i'm saying. HAHA. sorry i'm going on and on abt a book u've prob not read and you're going !??!?! ahahha. but i like it.
and this part of one of the letters the mum wrote to her girls.
You're the strongest, I think. Too strong for your own good, maybe..... Look after your sisters for me. Look after Mark. And let someone look after you.
resounding. at choir practice, it was the last words that would make an impression.