One more post!
The logical thing would be to dedicate my final post to the thoughts I had on whatever book I finished reading, either Blue Like Jazz or The Reason For God. But...I didn't finished reading a book yet. I'm planning on finishing Blue Like Jazz because I found it so much more interesting and I plan to read it on the plane on Saturday when I fly to Honduras!!!! (I'm soooo excited!!)
Well, this goes a long with what I was saying earlier and is kind of a repeat from the questions we had to answer before about the books. Anyway, I was totally more into BLJ (Blue Like Jazz) than TRFG (The Reason For God). BLJ is much more of a story about the author's life than TRFG is. And once again, I liked the simplicity of the writing. Not to say that the writer didn't make good points or didn't have a good writing style, but he used down to earth language that the ordinary person can understand. TRFG was more like The God Delusion, I had to really focus to understand it and even when I did, it didn't always stick. Now I'm sure some people really like that kind of style and can understand it no problem; but that's not me. And we are all different and have different tastes and likes and dislikes.
What I learned the most from having to read all these different books and excerpts it that one type of writing style will not appeal to everyone and everyone will not find the same writing interesting. It's not wrong to not understand something, it's not wrong to find a book way over your head and it's not wrong that you don't get it and other people do. I think the problem comes when we compare ourselves to others. We look around and see people who are so much better than ourselves and come to the conclusion that there must be something wrong with who we are. But there's not. This is something I've really been thinking about a lot recently and it has come up in conversations and youth group too, so I think God is trying to tell me something. But each one of us was made unique and special just the way we are, so how can we criticize God's creation? He created humans and said this is good. Don't get caught in the lie that others are better than you. There will always be people who are more talented than you whatever you do; whether it's school or sports or cooking or dancing or music or anything. But it's up to you what you do with the abilities you do have and whether you will use them, or find yourself inadequate because you compare yourself to others.
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