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I love it!
It's so much needed and brings peace and tranquility. It arouses the appetite for repentance.

I stopped at chapter 6.
Unfortunately the book fell into the abyss
Behind my bed
Where I cannot access it anymore
Until the lord wills...

Chapter 7 ..to be read one day!

Also? Deserves a re-read.

When we aren't loving others well, we're proving that we haven't really grasped God's love...or it would impact the way we love others. Love is the gauge, and as hard as it might be for us to admit, the way we love others is a huge indicator of how spiritually healthy we really are. Not only that, but the way we allow ourselves to be loved by others can be an avenue that brings healing and hope into our lives

Finaaaaally my interest in the story started rising 🤩

Finaaaaaly my interest in the story started rising 🤩

Finaaaaaly my interest in this story started rising 🤩

Sad
Ivan Ilych wanted to weep, wanted to be petted & cried over & then his colleague Shebek would come & instead of weeping & being petted, Ivan Ilych would assume a serious, severe & profound air & by force of habit would express his opinion on a decision of the Court of Cassation & would stubbornly insist on that view. This falsity around him & within him did more than anything else to poison his last days

As is always the case with the dead, his face was handsomer and above all more dignified than when he was alive. The expression on the face said that what was necessary had been accomplished, and accomplished rightly. Besides this there was in that expression a reproach and a warning to the living. This warning seemed to Peter Ivanovich out of place, or at least not applicable to him.

Listening to audiobook

it doesn't matter how much you read your Bible, do good works, go to church, serve others, or know about God. If you are not honest about your true feelings, you will be stunted in your spiritual growth with God and limited in your relationships.


Chapter 4 - Quit Denying Anger, Sadness and Fear

I learned I was supposed to rejoice even if I was sad or angry. I certainly was not to share my fears since the Bible was filled with commands not to fear.
This superficial & incomplete understanding of Scripture's view of our humanity almost destroyed me. At least, it severely stunted my spiritual growth & ability to love well.

Chapter 4 - Quit Denying Anger, Sadness, and Fear

I learned I was supposed to rejoice even if I was sad or angry. I certainly was not to share my fears since the Bible was filled with commands not to fear.
This superficial & incomplete understanding of Scripture's view of our humanity almost destroyed me. At least, it severely stunted my spiritual growth & ability to love well.

We were also joined at the hip in feeling responsible for each other's sadness, anger, and anxiety. As a result, we lived in reaction to one another - minimizing, blaming, denying, and defending ourselves against each other's emotions. Radical surgery was required to separate our emotional worlds. We weren't separate enough as individuals to enjoy genuine connection and togetherness.

In my relationship with Jesus, I'd gone from the great joy of feeling overwhelmed by his love to bitter resentment at feeling overwhelmed by his demands... My love had become a "have to," a "should" rather than a gift freely given.

Already loving this book!

I love it when I come across principles or advice that that I have been using and living even before knowing there was a term for it or why it works... Innate/ intuitive knowledge rocks!

This goes for concepts mentioned in this book like habit stacking, pointing and calling, and using environment as cues for habits.

You treat us with the same circumspection as one handles a vase of precious crystal or fragile potter for fear of breaking it. When it is necessary for our good for you to afflict us or send us some illness or make us suffer some loss or pain, you always do so with a certain respect and a kind of deference.

"oh, whatever will become of us?" Said Jill despairingly.
"Now don't you let your spirits down, Pole" said the Marsh-wiggle. "There's one thing you've got to remember. We're back on the right lines. We were to go under the Ruined City, and we are under it. We're following the instructions again"

"I can't help wondering, can we - could we-?"
"Do you mean, do something to make it happen?"
Eustace nodded.
"You mean we might draw a circle on the ground—and write in queer letters in it—and stand inside it—and recite charms and spells?"
"...It would look as if we thought we could make him do things. But really, we can only ask him."