I don’t personally know Shelene Bryan, but she seems awesome
and inspiring and a little bit crazy! In
Love Skip Jump: Start Living the
Adventure of Yes, Shelene encourages us to say yes to God and experience
what great plans He has that we might otherwise miss. Shelene said yes to traveling to Africa to
see where exactly her charitable contributions were going. That trip inspired her to form her own
charity, Skip1.org, which provides food and clean water to children around the
world. The book chronicles the numerous
times Shelene said “Yes!” and how it has changed her life and many other lives
in response.
Shelene makes many wonderful points about how much richer
life can be when we say yes and jump in.
I was completely on board with working in impoverished communities or
feeding starving children. Putting your
house up for sale by God (chapter 15) just to prove you’re willing to sell your
house is where it got a little crazy for me.
However, I still took away her point about our own openness to God’s
will. (But I’m not putting my house on the
market.)
One passage that really made an impact on me was when she
said sometimes God wants us to go through a process without ever achieving what
we thought was the goal and that the journey can be more important than the end
result (page 134). I tend to be very
goal focused. I like marking things off
a to do list, so the idea that we may go through things to get a completely
different result than we wanted is something I grapple with. This book encourages me to look for more
opportunities rather than challenges, and to really listen for what God is
asking us to jump into.
This book was provided to me for free by BookLook in exchange for my
honest review. All opinions stated are
my own.
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