A new experience of God comes one question at a time in this fun and provocative journal. Made up entirely of insightful, profound, and occasionally ridiculous questions, Me, Myself, and I AM invites you to open to any page, open yourself to God, and be the author of yourown story.
Questions range from spiritually intriguing—
You overhear God talking about you. What do hear him saying?
to thought-provoking—
You are on a long car trip with a close friend who is not a Christian and the conversation turns to faith. What is your biggest fear about what your friend will ask or say?
to challenging—
Do you believe that all of Jesus’s followers have a responsibility to tell others about him?
to just plain fun—
If your life before you became a Christian were a movie, its title would be:
Animal House
As Good as It Gets
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
It’s a Wonderful Life
Me, Myself, and I AM will entertain, inspire, and get you thinking about your spiritual life from brand new angles. Whether you use Me, Myself, and I AM as a reflective tool, a way to start conversations with friends and family, or as a spiritual time capsule to look back on years later, their own words will create a powerful journey of self-discovery.
My Review:
Me, Myself and I Am is a book requiring much from the reader. Besides the clever title and some soul-searching questions and sentence starters, the book is an empty slate.
I'm not great at following through with the meme's that head around the world via the internet. If I was I'd probably love this book. It's a spiritual and personal diary digging deep into the personal journey that has shaped reader beliefs and, by default, the reader.
My 17-year-old daughter fills out every meme she runs across and would really eat this up but my 22-year-old daughter saw the book laying on the kitchen table asked for it and hid it away before her sister discovered it had entered the house.
Some of the areas and topics covered include church, formative beliefs and the history of those, likes and dislikes, personality strengths and weaknesses and prayer personality. Many pages are quick check-lists and multiple choice, others require essay answers. All require thinking.
Feral, the cat, ate dental floss. How do I know this? Well, it was obvious. Note: Cats do not care for humans who attempt to tug on something that is hanging from where it shouldn't be. Good news. This too, did pass.
I encountered an elderly person who entertained others mightily and another one who spewed nothing but poisonous complaints. Note: If I ever become a poisonous complainer over an entertaining treasure put me away and toss the key.
A bad alternator, a misunderstanding, a change-up in plans can make a day seem to last forever. Note: In the end it can all end up okay.
Sometimes, late at night, after a really long day, things that are typed and posted on blogs don't always make sense. Note: I've got VERY forgiving readers.
Happy November, everyone.
I'm going to be stretching my comfort zone in Minnesota for a few days. So if you come back Monday and Tuesday, make sure you read all the posts containing the letter o -- nice and long.
My daughter, aka 22, is a deaconess at our church. I'm pretty proud of her. Even though the term deaconess sounds a lot like a team mascot, it's a rough job and it requires much maturity. It can be a thankless position of serving within a church body. Sometimes what is required is way beyond her years and experience.
She runs a book club that is satisfying and plans womens' activities that have been fun and spiritually rich. Like I said, I'm pretty proud of her. Tonight, I attended her Pilates class. She always prepares a devotion and then encourages the very mixed group of ladies through the stretching, whining and groaning.
While she taught, I realized how gifted she is as a teacher, and how many women young and not-so-young respect her. What an amazing blessing it is to see God at work in my children. What a delight it is to see my children seeking God.
It's true. Proverbs 23:24 The father of a righteous man has great joy; he who has a wise son delights in him.(Or a wise daughter.)
Now, if I could just get her to lay off my aching muscles.
Tracey has visited the Dregs before. Click here and scroll down. You may visit her website, read her first chapter and check out Dangerous Hearts by click-click-clicking on the cover and highlighted links. And here's :
My Review:
Tracey Bateman brings the final book in her Westward Hearts series. Having not read the first two, I can't compare it to them, but, I imagine that fans of the series will find much to like as several characters seemed to finish out stories while others deepened relationships only hinted at in previous novels.
Classic prairie style romance complete with danger, drama and bad guys. Bateman threw in cholera, nasty cures and enough sensory information that I know for a fact that if I ever get a chance to time travel I won't be going back to places where doctoring required more guess work than tools. Nor where bathing involved the possibility of catching pneumonia since a bath on the trail involved open bodies of water.
Tracey Bateman write chick-lit and prairie romance with equal skill, no wonder she's a favorite of many.
Here is the promised film-acting debut by yours truly.
Warning. Two F-Bombs appear in the film with an assortment of other off-color words and the sound is a little rusty.
You can watch it on mute...if you are concerned about language. My lines are the loudest, which says something about me. And for the record, the baggy, striped pants have been sent to Stacey and Clinton of "What Not to Wear" fame. There is a reason they say not to wear stripes on television.
Should you want to watch it muted but still enjoy my lines are "Snacks anyone? I'll just go ahead and get some." And "Honey, your father is just doing what he thinks best for the family. Cookie?" So go ahead and enjoy lip-reading. The F-bombs appear right after my last line, when my poor "son" throws the cookie, thus rejecting his mother's love, and in the following scene.
If you aren't concerned about language and want to know the rest of the lines that might be a little too quiet, YouTube has sub-titles in the bottom right corner. Click the box to the far lower right and look for the CC then click the arrow.
And, Birdie, I hope you find this more entertaining than Cloverfield which I will avoid, thank you.
