"I never would have dreamed any of this two years ago. ... The winds had changed in our lives." [Pg 180, 181] Has your life changed by the reading of Anything? When I finish a book I begin to take count of the thoughts I have that are different, reviewing the ways I've changed. New understandings added. Unconventional questions being born that in turn take me deeper into my faith. Changes don't always last or have a large impact, but you know, it's often true that the little things are the ones that stick with us. One morning, way down the road, you wake up realizing you are different. A situation has ended in a manner you would not have anticipated knowing yourself as you do. And the change is good. You trace that change back to a trailhead where long ago you turned right instead of left (like you used to do). What happened? Likely a word got into your heart and grew a bit. Someone you didn't know personally made a difference in your life through the telling of their experience, their offers of encouragement, or just in sharing their hopes and failures all with a listener they would never know, yet whom they cared for. I see divergent trails in the image above. Life is like that. Someone's life can be dramatically different from what we think we see. Taking a moment to look deeper (or to read their story in this case) brings more understanding, more clarity of what’s ahead of us, what we see in our own life by joining in the life lessons of others. I am very thankful for those women who have opened their heart to share their life with total strangers including all it's humanness, joys, failures and sorrows. For me, by the time I finish a book, the author has often become a dear friend. I hope you will join us for our new journey, Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World, by Joanna Weaver, which begins February 9, 2017. It's an opportunity to grow and be inspired. What can we learn from Joanna's message? How does she express what God is teaching her? What wisdom will we glean by walking into the journey with her? ~ Andi
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