Happy Lover's Weekend. Yesterday I missed my chance to participate in Faith' n Fiction Saturdays. But I loved the question so much I thought I would respond and ask you to participate with me as well. So there's the question: Besides the Bible, have you ever read a book that taught you, reminded you, or encouraged you about God's love for you in a new or deep way? It can be fiction or non-fiction.
When I was thirteen I was introduced to Alice Walker's A Color Purple. This novel is the story of a southern woman named Celie, who wrote letters to God to survive years of abuse, tragedy and lack of sense of self. One of my favorite lines in the novel is:
I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.This line was like a lightbulb moment for me. I never wondered how God felt about things. I was always concerned about what God didn't do for me. But what about what I didn't do for Him? I also thought about all the great things God made just for me to relish like the smell of magnolias or the way a boy's dimple made me giggle, these things that only God knows that makes me happy. I begin to feel like God wanted me and for a little girl, it is a good thing to know.
In what books have you found a love note from God?
1 comments:
What a great answer to this question!
And, you're right -- so often what God does, I'm sure, goes unnoticed by most.
There's a great little blurb that I kept (on my blog) from one of Beth Moore's blog posts, as it talked about just this kinda thing... go here to read it, if you want. :)
Give God the glory! :D
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