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Don’t agree with everything, but history of TB its prevalence is mind-blowing, his challenge compelling. 1,250,000 die from it ea year. “Consider everything you’ve loved, survived, the people who have loved you up into your now. Think about how rare and precious humans are and how many of them you get to worry for and care about. Now find a way to multiply that by 1.25 mil. Thats why we must work together..”

Excellent. I was introduced to Matt Haig with the Boy Called Christmas, which we all loved. Then I read Humans and then this and now I am a real Matt Haig fan. Love his attention to the human condition, good bad and beautiful. The description of this book caught me- love the idea of choose your own adventure and it did not disappoint. Conclusion: Live.

Author makes the case while citing original works that a vast majority of the early church fathers posit that in Matthew 24 Jesus prophesied about first century events and catastrophic destruction of Jerusalem.

“Of all their enemies, the cold, the ice, the sea, he feared none more than demoralization.”

“In that instant, they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment . Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition’s original objective, they knew now that they had somehow done much much more than they ever set out to do.”

Beautiful and theological like a sermon. Will be using yearly in my own life.