This book is classified (according to the cover) as “Religion/Spirituality.” I would classify it as “Inspirational.” This book is not about religion at all. It’s about a relationship with God. It’s about seeing and experiencing God in our every day. It’s about recognizing God in our mundane routines of life. We can plod through our day and meet bedtime with the attitude that we’ve crossed off one more day on the calendar; or, we can go to sleep remembering the encounters we had with God–those we may have embraced and those we may have let slip by. The “inspiration” in this book is about shedding the “should’s and shouldn’t’s” and meeting God in the way He created us. He made us individuals, each with different abilities to meet Him and work for Him. This book inspires us to recognize those abilities and not compare someone else’s God-connection to our own. Ortberg writes “In Christ there is no need for Jell-O molds or rigid constraints. We are called to delight in the diversity that reflects the many facets of God and sheds light on what it truly means to be created in His image.” I recommend this witty and insightful book if you are looking for God.
Reviewed by Peggy Thomson
