Bob Goff: Chapter Analysis

Bob Goff a lawyer, an author, a husband and a father wrote this amazing book to simply show us how to love. Bob believes that our lives should be fueled by love. He is completely correct because our lives should be fueled with never ending love. Love is the key that opens many doors in our lives. Without that key, we are going to be stuck in the same place and trying to figure out on how to open the door. Without love, our lives would be empty because God is love and without God we are nothing.

The book contains a series of breakdowns of thoughts, outlooks, and emotional schemes. There are numerous exercises that help one to come to terms with issues relating to the various chapters the book contains. Some are more specific than others and require serious dedication to exercises, such as writing letters to your inner child, some are different tasks than others such as clearing your mind and imagining good in a specific person. As I

The Sacred Romance Drawing Closer to the Heart of God by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge is an interesting book that’s supposedly filled with useful information about how to live like a Christian and become more like Christ. However, this book has many issues. Brent Curtis and John Eldredge attempt to get us as readers to understand how to live and be more like Christ by comparing the pains and sufferings we all go through in our everyday lives to that of arrows piercing our hearts. As Curtis and Eldredge talked about arrows piercing our hearts I realized there have been times in my life that happened to me. Finally, after reading the book I realized that this book has the potential of being an interesting read but, it’s many errors leave us as readers confused.

I will recommend this book to everyone because it has elements that I feel most books do not have. It was enjoyable to read because I have had many problems with my father and this book helped me come to a revelation. This book kept me going and all I wanted to do was curl up underneath my covers and read this book. It was such an inspirational tool that will never leave my heart and I will always cherish how it made me feel. I am really excited to read his other book Into the Air. If it is anything like this book, I will love

One of the overarching themes that spanned over the many books we read over the semester, was the nature of love and the search for meaning. Love is an inherent aspect of humanity, and while it is an often inexplicable and complex sentiment, it is intrinsically connected with mankind's search for meaning in life. Love often leads a person in directions that they do not expect, and this is obvious in the very different applications of love in different books. However, one common idea about the relationship between love, suffering, and wisdom, can be argued for based off the ancient texts that we read. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Antigone, and The Tale of Genji, love is used as a vehicle for wisdom through suffering and loss.

There exists no power as inexplicable as that of love. Love cannot be described in a traditional fashion; it is something that must be experienced in order for one to truly grasp its full enormity. It is the one emotion that can lead human beings to perform acts they are not usually capable of and to make sacrifices with no thought of the outcome or repercussions. Though love is full of unanswered questions and indescribable emotions, one of the most mystifying aspects of love is its timeless nature. Love is the one emotion, unlike superficial sentiments such as lust or jealousy, which can survive for years, or even generations. In the novel The Gargoyle, the author, Andrew Davidson, explores the idea of eternal love between two people,

• Boyle believes that deep down, everyone longs to love God and feel God’s love

Much like Richard Blanco, I too had struggles with finding my identity and finding myself. So mostly this entire book has spoken to me on a different level. I did not go through the same things he has, but they are pretty closely related.

As a mother of a high school student, I feel as though it is a brilliant idea to let Mr. Ishmael Beah speak to the students. The fellow peers of your school need to value how lucky they are to be in such a sheltered atmosphere. Sensing the indisputable emotions of Mr. Beah telling his story of being a boy soldier is a lesson that should not be passed up. Understanding how atrocious it must have been to fight in a war solely based on supremacy and riches would help these teenagers understand what strength and determination really is.

Personally, in section one, chapter two was the most, not necessarily challenging, rather more thought provoking. It sort of laid out the vision and steps for Christian Community Development. The chapter starts by redirecting our minds and hearts to what our true purpose should be. “If we are not helping people find a relationship with Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life, then we are

The chapter titled “Every Trip is a Quest” peaked my curiosity, the meaning behind the chapter name led me to a realization which had not occurred in my head before. Foster gives an interesting take on the daily like tasks and issues that we go through every day. He gives a very short, but descriptive made up event, in which a guy named Kip faces his own hardships and accomplishes his true mission. These sample paragraphs were my favorites, in this order

The authors seek to elucidate to the masses the concepts of God’s hope, amazing love and the power that emanates from god 's sake to his children. Through the entire work the writers seek to demonstrate through years of experience how people can be in possession of their thought patterns, enhance their decision-making skills to promote the physical and relational self. The book brings out very hefty discussions on life and the various engagements that people make every day of their lives. The book contains concepts like relationships and their dynamics where the authors assert that relationships ought to include God in them because he exists in them (Hawkins & Clinton, 2015 p.112).

Love is a central theme in both Attars Conference of the Birds and Dante’s The Inferno. Whilst both explore this theme in varying ways and take extremely contrasting routes, their final destination to faith is achieved. The authors explore the divine through love and investigate the ways in which passion and devotion are intertwined. In both texts, as the characters fall deeper into love, they fall deeper into their faith. A spiritual journey led by passion is seen to be a constructive way to attain one’s closeness to God. Attars description of a spiritual journey towards God is at times opposing to the path often associated with a religious experience, yet perfectly mimics his Suffi background. In Suffism a belief widely held is that complete submission to love ends in the soul becoming one with G-d and this is shown by Sheikh Sam’ans all consuming love for the Christian woman, which is not a path away from God but a path towards him. Dante's the Inferno is based off a completely contrasting belief system and culture, yet love seems to be the only guidance on his path through all and towards faith.

He really gives us a clear understanding from scripture how we us men should really act towards one another and how to express our love back towards Christ. At the end of each chapter he always gives advice and encouragement to pray that God will and can put these traits on our hearts and for wisdom to be more

While people are often able to identify when they feel the emotion love, love itself seems to defy definition.  In her polemic “Against Love”, Laura Kipnis argues that love cannot exist as traditional expressions of love such as marriage, monogamy, and mutuality.  However, in her argument, she defines love incorrectly by equating love to expressions of love. This definition lacks a component essential to understanding the abstract concept of love: emotion. Recognizing love as emotion helps us realize that, contrary to Kipnis’ argument love by nature transcends all expressions of love. Love is subjective and exists in any and all forms. In her argument that love cannot survive as conventional expressions of love, Kipnis ignores the nature of love as emotion in favor of equating love to different expressions of love. Love is a force which exists above expressions of love; a true understanding of love can only come from an assessment of how individuals, not societies, respond to the emotion.