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For reflection and action

Revisado: 04-25-24

Haidt does a great job gathering data, stories, and creating synthesis for the sake of action. I am a millennial with a 3 and 1 year old. I’m coming to grips with the hold my phone has on me and I’m beginning to dream (or maybe get lost in nightmares) about how the digital, social, technologically advancing, and secretive world of phones and computers is going to form my children. Even since finishing this book in the last few days, my wife and I have already begun conversations around analyzing and rearranging our own tech habits and forming better spaces for our boys to grow on earth before mars. I’m really grateful for all of his hard work on this. It’s a gift.

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Humor that gives you enough air to breath so you can keep crying

Revisado: 06-29-23

This book is a gift.

It felt more like a biblical story than a modern marriage memoir. Like a story about real people, really well told, with very little left out. I love how the Bible includes all the crazy stuff, the gory stuff, the angry stuff, the redemptive stuff. Bible stories are slow and painful, and man this story is slow and painful… but in the real life sort of way where happy endings come from long obedience in the same direction, rather than overnight, nearly magical transformation.

Harrison and Lauren are the saints of this story. Not because they’ve never broken anything or hurt anyone, but because they’ve broken pretty much everything and continue to look up to bless the Lord. And then look to each other with hearts softened by the gospel, fit to love. They’re people after God’s own heart. Allowing themselves to feel all the things, to tell the truth, and to offer themselves, their marriage, their kids to the faithful hands of the living God.

This story. It’s full of all the human stuff. Love, longing, despair, loss, betrayal, hope, forgiveness, anger, fear… just so much. To have someone reveal the hearts movement through all of those feelings while life is crumbling all around made me feel less lonely.

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What a gift.

Revisado: 06-09-23

I enjoyed every bit of this story and this encouragement. I’m left with a deeper longing to know God in so many of these ways and, truly, without a whole lot of shame. Which is new for a book on prayer, for me. :) thanks!

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Not the book we want, but the one we need right now

Revisado: 03-16-22

My goodness.

This book is is like chemotherapy. Devastating, painful, all encompassing… bringing death to the cancer of the self and bringing hope that new life after this death is possible.

Alan is careful in his descriptions and diagnosis of the modern self. No one is safe. But he has the heart of one who has lived as though he was his own and has given himself to Jesus. He wants what is best for his readers. He paints a picture of a new way, a gospel way of union with the one who can calm restless hearts and offer humility, or belonging to God, as a gift not a burden. It’s such a rich read. I highly recommend.

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