A Crazy Love

Yesterday was Valentine's Day. I would like to say that I was completely caught up in this holiday established to show "crazy love" that forgot to write for my reading journal, I was not. I went with a group of 13 singles to watch Valentine's Day in the theatres (highly recommend this movie). While this event was fun and I found myself relieved that I was not the only single on the Southwestern Campus, I am still not a fan of Valentine's day. Do we really need a day to show love to the ones we care about? Can we not just do this every day? Which brings me to the book I've picked up (I know, how many books can a person read at one time?!). Crazy Love is it's title, and no, it is not a sappy romance novel. The main idea of this book is that we should be in crazy love with God every day. Yes, every day. Not like Valentine's Day when you go all out for that special person one time a year, but you go all out for God EVERYDAY.

Falling in love with God is like falling in love with a person. You have that first attraction that lights the spark. You see how amazing this person is from a distance. This is what the first part of the book talks about. The book goes in to great depth about how much most of us have forgotten how amazing God really is! He has created so many complex things and done so many wonderful things! The book aims to remind us of this and light the spark between the reader and God once again.

After this person has caught your eye, you want to get to know them more. The next part of the book tells you about God. He is Holy, eternal, all-knowing, fair and just, and all-powerful. The all-knowing section in this chapter really brought some questions to my mind. If God is all-knowing then does He know from the moment He created us, who will choose to follow Him and will not? Does He know what decisions we are going to make (good or bad) every single day in our entire life? And if He does, why does He choose to make some people that do not have the will power to not conformed to the evil ways of this world? The answers to these questions...I may never know.
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I continue reading Lady in Waiting. The chapter that I read this week talks about sexual limitations before marriage. I am not really going to go in depth about this issue because I think it is a personal matter. But basically the main idea of the chapter is that God only set these limitations in order to protect you and your heart from getting hurt. Not to make you hold out on something that is supposed to be amazing...but as a precaution.

Read for 3 hours: I read every night before I go to bed, when I need a break from studying, or I carry a book in my purse to read when there is down time between the things I am running around doing.