Fun fast read. My first by this author but will not be the last.
How do you rate a book that has helped you emotionally, has shown you the light in so many instances. Has opened up a whole new way of looking at things, and has sentences in it that stay with you for life, are now ingrained, branded, never to be forgotten? I have got to rate it with 5 stars. Its a short book but it packs a heavy punch and there are lessons a plenty!!
This book is about a man, who one snowy day, encounters strangers and a plume of situations. He looks at all of these encounters with everyone from a totally different eye. An inside eye. He views everything from the heart, yet from a totally different perspective than what a lot of us do.
He sees reason in everything that happens that day. He soul searches every encounter. In doing so, you the reader can identify with almost everything he says.
Each chapter is a different experience that one snowy day, and by the end of each chapter, I was either crying or sitting there with my mouth agape, shaking my head up and down realizing, internally speaking, "hey...that is me.. I really see that now! That makes total sense".
If you dont learn anything about life from this book, then there is no hope for you lol. Ok, there is always hope.
My favorite scene was the chapter called, "Beautiful Scars". I was swept away by it and cried silently for a long time. I even had to set the book down for a few days, in order to process everything that was meant in that chapter, for us to understand.
It followed so closely with my life. I think everyone will find that the situations in this book will mimic many marker events or just random times in ones life. How we handle them all, is the question.
Mesmerized by this authors writing, in awe of his intelligence and heart, I feel there should be more books like this one available.
One of the things many things said in this book that will stay with me the most was, "Charlie told me once that my scars made me beautiful, that if I hadn't gone through all of that, then God couldn't have made me the person that I am.." "I had done plenty of things of which I wasn't proud. Harmful things, hurtful things. Things I wished I could take back and couldn't. Helen carried her scars on the outside but I carried mine on the inside. I would argue that they were much worse, but there was a God who still loved me...Little rotten, scarred me".
Now for those of you who are not Christian, I highly recommend this book anyway to you. It is way more full of things that can help you to see things from a different prospective, perhaps one you have never considered before. It isnt about Christianity, it is about life, its lessons, where it takes us, where we wish to go, where we go that we never expected. This is a book for every single person alive. If we all read this book, society and the world would be a lovely place.
This book is about a man, who one snowy day, encounters strangers and a plume of situations. He looks at all of these encounters with everyone from a totally different eye. An inside eye. He views everything from the heart, yet from a totally different perspective than what a lot of us do.
He sees reason in everything that happens that day. He soul searches every encounter. In doing so, you the reader can identify with almost everything he says.
Each chapter is a different experience that one snowy day, and by the end of each chapter, I was either crying or sitting there with my mouth agape, shaking my head up and down realizing, internally speaking, "hey...that is me.. I really see that now! That makes total sense".
If you dont learn anything about life from this book, then there is no hope for you lol. Ok, there is always hope.
My favorite scene was the chapter called, "Beautiful Scars". I was swept away by it and cried silently for a long time. I even had to set the book down for a few days, in order to process everything that was meant in that chapter, for us to understand.
It followed so closely with my life. I think everyone will find that the situations in this book will mimic many marker events or just random times in ones life. How we handle them all, is the question.
Mesmerized by this authors writing, in awe of his intelligence and heart, I feel there should be more books like this one available.
One of the things many things said in this book that will stay with me the most was, "Charlie told me once that my scars made me beautiful, that if I hadn't gone through all of that, then God couldn't have made me the person that I am.." "I had done plenty of things of which I wasn't proud. Harmful things, hurtful things. Things I wished I could take back and couldn't. Helen carried her scars on the outside but I carried mine on the inside. I would argue that they were much worse, but there was a God who still loved me...Little rotten, scarred me".
Now for those of you who are not Christian, I highly recommend this book anyway to you. It is way more full of things that can help you to see things from a different prospective, perhaps one you have never considered before. It isnt about Christianity, it is about life, its lessons, where it takes us, where we wish to go, where we go that we never expected. This is a book for every single person alive. If we all read this book, society and the world would be a lovely place.
