We all question our beliefs, whether it be religious, or just simply how evolution has evolved. And in the book Uninvited by Lysa TerKeurst, she takes you through her beliefs and journey of finding and meeting God. All throughout this book she helps us understand that rejection is going to be our biggest enemy. Rejection is going to be there when you're trying to move closer to God, rejection is going to follow you all through life, rejection is going to be in all of your relationships, rejection is going to ruin opportunities and rejection is going to make you feel less than, left out and lonely. But all you can do is thrive to live loved. She also explains that rejection is just going to get you where you are supposed to be and that it’s …show more content…
part of God's plan. But by the end of this book, you will not feel alone, but you will feel loved and invited by God! I chose to read this book because it was suggested by a friend in a deep conversation of my relationship with God, it wasn’t so good at the time, but now I can definitely say that I'm not the same person and my relationship with God is way more strong! Although at the time all I could think was, “Well it’s just another devotional Christian book that is going to tell me the same thing, and make me feel no different with my relationship with God.”. I didn’t really want to read the book, but it would be fit for the type of book for my summer reading project. So why not? I thought I would give it a try. I went to Eurasia Coffee and Tea one day to start reading, I knew my relationship with God wasn’t straight, and I knew this starting the book. As I kept reading I was so engaged to the book and felt like I was going through some of the exact same problems and Lysa was going through. It was crazy how unalone I felt! I felt like Lysa was sitting at the table with me just talking to me and telling me her life story so I wouldn’t feel so uninvited in everything I was doing in life. An hour or so after I start reading my book I had to take a break because my eyes were burning so bad from crying so much! In seconds of reading this book I felt like I knew how to let go of things that bothered me and it’s okay to feel uninvited because I was loved by someone greater that will never stop inviting me to love him and feel loved. So all I have to say is, oh my goodness! This book! It has made such a huge impact in my life! Who knew reading a book could change the way you look at life and take life on? This book has changed the way I look at every situation. It has forsure made me see good in everything and believe everything has happened for a reason. Recently I have been going to church more and really living a more positive and uplifting life. I have been living loved! The book opens with my biggest struggle.
Being honest with yourself and accepting yourself the way you are. Once again, rejection. Chapter one, page eight TerKeurst says. “Rejection steals the best of who I am by reinforcing the worst of what’s been said to me.”. She then follows to explain a situation she had been in one day at the airport and someone had overheard her talking to herself in harsh ways. This quote is very effective about self rejection and outside rejection. I can most relate to Lysa in this way, from the way my voice sounds on the phone, how my hair looked that day and if my baby curls were to curly or to when I am in a situation and get rejected from someone else, I would then turn around and find anything that I could have possibly done wrong. That suddenly turned into self rejection. And only because of this book, I have realized I am the way I am because The amazing Jesus Christ made me exactly the way he wanted me. From the freckles I once hated, my cute baby curls that are oh so curly some days, the curves my body has, my silly laugh, my personality, and to the way I walk. All of these have suddenly turned …show more content…
perfect! As a young women I have felt very uninvited in many milestones in my life.
I can remember when my “best friends” started doing things without me. Going home after school and crying because I wasn’t invited to the little get together after school. All the way up to this past summer, I would see things on their snapchat stories and get down on myself and still feel uninvited and rejected. But lysa really tackles the emotional issue of rejection, once again, and loneliness. And she tackles it REALLY good! Chapter six, page 68 she says, “The fragile nature of my heart needs time. So I give it just that. They say time heals-and I think this can be true-but only if that the goal here: healing. Time grows the seeds that are planted, watered, and fertilized. Plant beauty, grow beauty. Plant thorns, grow thorns. Time will allow for either.”. To me this paragraph allowed me to realize that all I have been doing is watering the seed that just keeps making me jealous of all of my friends and making me feel so uninvited. Only if I would just step back and and plant a new seed, or as in this case a new friend, that seed would just die off and right there would be so much less negativity, uninvited ness, and loneliness in my life. As simple as
that. If it were up to me, every person would be required to read this book! It is showered in so much advice and forsure will not make you feel alone or uninvited whatsoever! Lysa does an amazing job of really sharing her own personal experiences with rejection, such as her incredibly painful abandonment from her dad as a child to the perceived judgement of what a perfect woman's body should look like just to prove to us how amazing God really is! She really helps you understand and realize that God’s love for us is so real, and that when we are going through rough patches in our lives and when we feel alone and uninvited, all he wants us to do is to run to him! And I am so thankful for that! It is just an amazing book all around! I can promise you if you read this book, you will change the way of your whole lifestyle and you will be living loved and living for God!
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