"Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality" This what Donald Miller wrote in the beginning of his book "Blue Like Jazz". I just started reading this book and I am only half way through, but it already is becoming my favorite book. I won't spoil it, but I HIGHLY advise everyone to read it. Its a totally new look on things, written in new ways. Sometimes when I read Christian books I feel like I don't really learn things because sometimes people just keep repeating the same concepts and thoughts people have, just in new ways and with more fluff. They spend hundreds of pages saying something they could have said in two. Yeah its nice to have verses, and other references proving points, but it can get dull and I don't feel challenged by it. This book has personal stories about Don's life and the people he encountered. Its an engaging story as well as a book that teaches so much about God and how much he loves us and how we can better love him and others, and how to truly Live our lives. I will probably write more on what I think about this book when I'm finished, but I think everyone should read this so that they can encounter the passion that I am when I read it. I have never thought this much in my life about some of the things he challenges me with.
"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxaphone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.
I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened."
Donald Miller's author's note in Blue like Jazz
Reading this book I feel like I am watching Don do what he loves, and that is to love and live. It makes me love life and others more myself...
Monday, March 15, 2010
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