Today is a public holiday but I stayed home most of the day reading. I have not spent much time reading books in the past weeks. “Much time” means at least an hour or so every day. Reading for some 15 minutes cannot make me feel satisfied. So I read and read and read today. Reading is so enjoyable to me, and it is indeed part of my life. Without reading, I think I will die. I am that kind of people who need to have quiet moments from time to time, think and read in order that I can recharge energy. I will feel my strength coming back after reading.
Today, I have finished a book which I have almost completed reading before I took up the current contract job. And I have read a few chapters of two other books. Will read more tonight.
02 May 2011
01 May 2011
Book Review 18 - Have a Little Faith
I like the books written by Mitch Albom. He has published 4 books only but I have read all of them. His books are not didactic. They are stories, some are real, to let you think, to inspire you and to move you to tears.
In “Have a Little Faith”, the story begins with Mitch Albom being asked by an 82-year-old rabbi to deliver his eulogy. To prepare for this, Albom had to meet the rabbi regularly. Meeting the “man of faith”, Albom has in fact taken a journey to explore issues we all face every day – life purpose, death, marriage, forgiveness, happiness, friendship, cynicism, faith and so on.
Faith is not in a box. In our lives, god is always there. It is just that if we are sensitive enough to “feel” god is around.
I like a paragraph towards the end of the story:
Have you ever known a man of faith? Did you run the other way? If so, stop running. Maybe sit for a minute. For a glass of ice water. For a plate of corn bread. You may find there is something beautiful to learn, and it doesn’t bite you and it doesn’t weaken you, it only proves a divine spark lies inside each of us, and that spark may one day save the world.
In “Have a Little Faith”, the story begins with Mitch Albom being asked by an 82-year-old rabbi to deliver his eulogy. To prepare for this, Albom had to meet the rabbi regularly. Meeting the “man of faith”, Albom has in fact taken a journey to explore issues we all face every day – life purpose, death, marriage, forgiveness, happiness, friendship, cynicism, faith and so on.
Faith is not in a box. In our lives, god is always there. It is just that if we are sensitive enough to “feel” god is around.
I like a paragraph towards the end of the story:
Have you ever known a man of faith? Did you run the other way? If so, stop running. Maybe sit for a minute. For a glass of ice water. For a plate of corn bread. You may find there is something beautiful to learn, and it doesn’t bite you and it doesn’t weaken you, it only proves a divine spark lies inside each of us, and that spark may one day save the world.
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