A Good Book

Now and then I find a book that reaches deep down within me where my true heart resides.  That part of my life needs to be touched now and then with great ideas, because it is out of that place that my actions come.  Last year Mike Rivas of Thousand Oaks, CA, gave us several copies of John Ortberg's Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them.  Two weeks ago I finally got around to reading it myself.  Chapter 3 on "the fellowship of the mat" is worth spending my own money for.  So today I introduced the book to the Team members at Made in the Streets who are dorm supervisors for the boys.  I asked them to read it at the same time and talk in pairs after each chapter.  They agreed.  I found out that a couple of the Team have already read it, and now 6 are engaged with it.  We will see what it touches in them and what it will come to mean to the street kids also.

When you find a book that reaches you, we would love for you to recommend it to our Team, or buy a few copies for us.  We can get the books over here in suitcases when we travel.  Let us know.  It's a way to powerfully impact young men and women who powerfully impact kids who have no home and no hope.