Apr
30
What you can’t see in this photo (thanks to my skill with camera angles) are the many skinny Post-Its sticking out the side. They are marking the pages and paragraphs and sentences that I found most enlightening.
In other words, this is a book I need to own.
Benson uses his own story to illustrate the points he makes, and it all boils down to listening to yourself, to who you were made to be, and go with it.
Remarkably similar to Discovering Your Personal Vocation, and to my own prayer that I continually become who I was made to be.
If you are searching for meaning, read this book – it may just help you figure some stuff out.
Posted in Non-Fiction, Spirituality five stars
Apr
02
Every once in a while, I have a meltdown about how I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with my life. When this happens, I go in search of books about vocation, read them voraciously, and feel much better for a good long time afterward. I haven’t quite figured out why it works, but I’m not going to complain!
This book is a very quick read, and there were some great bits in it that definitely helped to inform me during this latest search for meaning. It’s about the Ignatian Exercises, which I am completely unfamiliar with and don’t intend to research, but there was still encouragement to be found in these pages. Granted, it was primarily due to the framing of the search for meaning as being a striving toward becoming one’s own true name; this worked for me because I have a “thing” about names and what I term “the becoming.”
Anyway, I liked it. It’s not going on my list of books to buy, though, because I don’t know that I’ll be able to get more out of it on a second reading.
(You can read more about my idea of the becoming at my God-blog, In the Mist of the Becoming. I’m still working on fixing the tags and categories, but the blog entries and comments are all there. Enjoy.)
Posted in Non-Fiction, Spirituality three stars
What you can’t see in this photo (thanks to my skill with camera angles) are the many skinny Post-Its sticking out the side. They are marking the pages and paragraphs and sentences that I found most enlightening.