I picked this book up in the Fuller bookstore just Monday as a recommendation from a list that the Life Hurts. God Heals. program suggested. I have another Yaconelli book sitting conveniently on my shelf at home (Messy Spiritually). But perhaps this time I’ll crack it open and read through it.
The introduction is a bit depressing: Mike talks about how everyone reaches a point in life where we lose our childlikeness; we lose our ability to hear God clearly. But the book promises to lead the reader to discover the “dangerous wonder” of a life that follows Jesus. I pray I might live such a life.
Chapter one jumps right into the thick of obstacles that prevent us from experience dangerous wonder: dullness, dream stealers, predictability, and the banal. Mike argues we’ve been inundated with media that even the simple act of watching the sun set is drowned out by noise. Then there are those who try to prevent dreamers from reaching their dreams. Or we get stuck in the “same old same old” routine. Lastly, we might find more security in our financial stability rather than in the arms of God.
Christ is the Dream Giver who wants us to listen to His dream for us so we can run like children in the fields of His grace. (page 28)
I hope that I might be able to see God even in the mundane, daily tasks. I pray that God would help me to run with arms high and heart abandoned to the One who gave it all. (Hah, yes, that’s a line from a Hillsong United song.) I want to see my life as an adventure and I think God is calling me to leave my comfort zone and pursue Him into enemy territory where His heart for the lost bleeds.
Give me courage, give me strength.
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