Resonating Thoughts

It's so weird having two different blogs. I just blogged on the other one, but I'm slightly reserved in that blog as I have advertised it more publicly than I have this one.

Lately I've been reading a very inspiring book by Joel Osteen (apparently it's his newest one). When I read my books I like to underline things that are important and things I learn or that are new concepts to me. In this book, I haven't been compelled to underline much, mostly because it's a lot of things that I do know, and I find that Joel tends to repeat himself about 20 times in a chapter just using different examples. (Don't get me wrong - it's quite good, just a little fluffed up)

However, last night I was reading and I think I underlined more in 2 pages than I have in 200 pages. A lot of what I underlined are things that I've learned over the past year, but stated in a very interesting ways, of which I had never thought of before. Here are just a couple:

If you stay in faith, before long you will see how every setback, every disappointment, even a terrible loss was simply another part of your story.

He will make your mess into your message. <-- that was my favourite one

God pushes us out of our comfort zone and into a growing zone. He sees that we are afraid to take a step, so He gives us a good strong push.

Anyways, just a few quotes that resonated with me, and I'm noticing that it's nice to be in a place where Joel's inspirational sayings make me think 'yea, I'm glad I'm not feeling down about myself and where I am in my life." Although, the book might be more enjoyable if I was less of a happy person!

Last day of teaching tomorrow - whoop whoop! Praise God!