Finding Your Way Back to God When Everything is Pulling You Away
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Bestselling author, speaker, and activist Christine Caine helps readers who are feeling weary and like things somehow aren't quite right to identify how they ended up where they are and what they need to do to course-correct and anchor themselves in the only One who does not change or shift with the currents. We've all at some point looked up from the daily grind and realized we had somehow drifted off course. Maybe we've been doing all the right Christian things and saying all the right Christian words, but inside we know something is just a bit off. Like we've run out of energy, vision, passion, and feel unable to move forward. The question we're pondering is not only How did I get here? but also What do I do now? In this new book, Caine meets us all in that place of weariness and uncertainty, sharing her own journey of discovery with vulnerability, candor, and self-deprecating humor. She lays out what she has learned about staying the course when you're feeling untethered and guides us each to learn the questions to ask about our relationships with God, with others, and with our own hearts to stay continually anchored despite the world's shifting currents; discover how to trust God more deeply by moving from a "what if?" kind of faith to an "even if" kind of faith; identify nine signs we are drifting off course and learn how to reposition ourselves to get back on track; and wrestle honestly with life's hard questions so we can respond faithfully to all the ways God answers, including the times when it feels like he doesn't. Christine offers up deeply personal stories, scriptural insights, and an eye-opening admonition to start paying closer attention, helping us to stop drifting and start thriving as we place our anchor on our unchanging, trustworthy God.
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I'm not really sure what led me to this book. It's been on my Kindle for awhile and I finally read it. I'm not really the type to read a self-help book, well....because I just don't like them.
This one was a little different though. Rather than pointing to self, it points to God. the title can be misleading. At first I thought it was going to be some major event that happened, but that wasn't the case. It's actually about how we slowly tend to lose our focus and drift away from God and our purpose without realizing it. Even when we are still going through the motions we may be drifiting. Anyway, if you're into the self-help style, I recommend this one.
I love Christine Caine, and I love listening to her audiobooks because I love her as a speaker. However this book fell a little short for me, it felt like it was a combination of blog posts and her talks rolled into a “story”. I had a hard time focusing on the content, I felt like I didn't get much out of it. That being said I do love her storytelling, and her humor. If you know her story and want more content like it, you'll enjoy this. If you have no idea who Christine is, you can probably skip this one.