Where Things Get Weird
What a year, to say the least. Exactly 365 days ago I tried to read this book in one sitting on a flight home from Sydney. Never happened and instead I got wrapped up in the inflight entertainment. Finally finished it on a flight home. Good book, but needs to be read in short succession. Looking back, I should have just sold that ticket home and stayed in Australia. Would have saved a gang of energy and time. Bummers.
Super sweet cover. She has some serious pipes. Alliteration of the S...check!
We often walk into the future looking backwards hoping to rewrite history. We carry our own burdens, regrets, mistakes and failures because we believe we are responsible for making our past right. A mixture of guilt and pride clouds our version of redemption. Because we can’t see redemption we don’t think it is possible. What we have to understand is that it is impossible to return to the beginning of this game of life.
We are not people with problems needing to be fixed and character flaws needing to be changed, but a people looking for direction. As hard as it is for us to hear, the truth is that the past is irreparable. Our wounds cannot be fixed, but they can be healed.
The hope we can cling to is that the future is always available. There may be scars, mistakes and failures, but there is a story of victory where everything that was wrong has been made right. Stop being so concerned about a past you have no control over and begin to focus on a future filled with hope in a passionate pursuit of You. Press on toward winning the goal of a deeper intimacy with yourself.
