Tuesdays With Morrie

I have been wanting to read this book for a long time.  And when I saw it at the library the other day, I quickly grabbed it off the shelf and placed it in my already large stack of books to read.

This is another example of a book that encourages us to live life to its fullest extent.  Morrie was dying of ALS, and he could have just given up to the disease, but he didn't.  He was a teacher by trade, and he continued teaching up until the last day of his life.  He may not have been in a traditional classroom, but that didn't matter.

It also showed the importance of younger people taking an interest in older people.  They have a lot to teach, a lot of experiences that need to be shared and a lifetime of knowledge and wisdom that we will never know about if we don't take the time to get to know them.

This story is a true story, and it's very touching and real.  I think it's a great book, and I'm looking forward to reading more of Mitch Albom's books.

Reba McEntire

When the television series Reba came out in 2001, I was either too busy or too tired to watch it.  I had five kids - ages one to six.  All I wanted to do in the evenings was to get these kids in bed! I wasn't interested in watching a tv show about someone with more problems than me!

But this year, while having Sciatica for several weeks, I started watching the series on the Lifetime Channel.  And, although the theme is definitely for adults, I really liked it.  If you want to know more about the show, you can look it up on google.

Now, I am not a country music fan, but there are some people involved in the country music profession that I really admire and like.  Reba is one of them.  And I have been curious about what would make her go into acting in a show like this one.  I still can't find the exact answer I'm looking for about that, but I did read a book she wrote before she had the show.  It's called Comfort From a Country Quilt.

Reba tells about her family, her travels and her experiences with life.  She talks about losing her band members in a horrific crash, and I don't know if I ever heard of that happening. 

I think the most important things I got from the book was that we should live each day to the fullest and to live your life with passion.  She is just a girl from an ordinary place living an extraordinary life doing what she loves... singing.  We all have the capability to live an extraordinary life.  It depends on what you do with what you've got.

I don't think that reading the book will cause me to start listening to country music, but it does let me get to know her a little bit better.

The Shack

I can now say I have read The Shack.  It is an interesting book, to say the least.

I think the thing that really stuck out more than anything was that in this story, God shows up to this man in a way that he can understand... a loving person, which is really the essence of who God really is anyway.

If you are having questions about what has happened in your life, and you don't understand, I cannot tell you that you will understand those things after reading this book.  However, if you are looking to find out some attributes of God, you will find some here.

I read it in two days.  And I thought it was good.