I stumbled on this book quite by accident at the library. It’s a
long story, but it has God’s fingerprints all over it. I was
actually wanting something like this book and didn’t even know
it. Just the title had me jumping for joy. “This is
what I needed!” It’s like one of those principles that I
believe…when I think about it.
some favorite quotes from chapter 1:
What Copernicus
did for the earth [declaring the earth to be round, and the sun to be the center of the solar system], God does for our souls.
Tapping the collective shoulder of humanity, He points to the Son—His
Son—and says, “Behold, the center of it all.”
(Eph. 1:20-22)
When God looks at
the center of the universe, He doesn’t look at you. When heaven’s stagehands direct the spotlight toward the star of
the show, I need no sunglasses. No
light falls on me.
Lesser orbs,
that’s us. Appreciated. Valued.
Loved dearly. But central? Essential?
Pivotal? Nope. Sorry.
Contrary to the Ptolemy within us, the world does not revolve around
us. Our comfort is not God’s priority. If it is, something’s gone awry. If we are the marquee event, how do we explain
flat-earth challenges like death, disease, slumping economies, or rumbling
earthquakes? If God exists to please us
then shouldn’t we always be pleased?
God does not exist
to make a big deal out of us. We exist
to make a big deal out of Him. It’s not
about me. It’s all about Him.
Life makes sense
when we accept our place. The gift of
pleasures, the purpose of problems—all for Him. The God-centered life works.
And it rescues us from a life that doesn’t.
But how do we make
the shift? How can we be bumped off
center? …We move from me-focus to God-focus by pondering Him. Witnessing Him. Following the counsel of the apostle Paul:
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass, the glory of the
Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by
the Spirit of the Lord.” (2 Cor. 3:18)
Beholding Him changes us.
PennyDaisy 
let me know when you return it to the library.
Life has been a little bit slower this week, but next week starts the most chaotic month of this year. I’m gonna be gone so much that I will hardly be at my own house at all. Kinda sad I know But most of it will end in July!
Interesting quotes.
Actually neither of your scenarios are correct. It’s more along the lines of me calling, her expressing enthusiasm, returning calls, etc, then abruptly ceasing all reciprocation. While I have no problem making “the first move” (in fact, because of my gender, I suppose it’s expected), I’m not going to keep pestering someone when they’ve made it clear that they don’t want the attention. I don’t keep track of whose turn it is to call whom, but if I notice that I’m the only one calling, I’m going to stop bothering.
And you may or may not know her. It seems you know a lot of people. If you did, I probably wouldn’t tell you who just because I don’t need to go around starting drama and strife like that.
Here’s a song about strife: http://pillar.jordanmills.net/gonadsandstrife.mp3