Reading Now: One Day My Soul Just Opened
Up
40 Days and 40 Nights Toward Spiritual Strength
and Personal Growth
316 pages
by Iyanla Vanzant
Another on my to-do list! Continue and/or
start reading my books.
You see, aside from food, I love books. (Oh
please don't make me choose between the two :D) I love reading books and
for the past months, I've been buying books whenever I go to bookstores.
Most books I bought at Booksale. Now I realize that I haven't even
completely read them. Some I have leafed through the pages. So I am
on a book-buying-ban for now till I have read or at least skimmed (scanned?)
each book.
One Day My Soul Just Opened Up is supposed to be
read for forty days, as its sub-title states. The author requires
30 minutes each day: 20 minutes for the morning exercise and 10 minutes for the
evening exercise. However, I do not have that patience to wait for 40 days
because I want to be enlightened right away. lol.. I am a self-proclaimed fast
reader, so I will read this as fast as I can. Beats the purpose, I
know. But I have other books to read. So many books, so little
time.
What I like:
·
the
poem First . . . words
·
Each
day has words of affirmations, Let Me Remember section to sum up the principle
for the day. The book is like a journal and discussed a lot of things
like truth, trust, simplicity, acceptance, boundaries, nonjudgment,
authenticity, expansion, gratitude, unconditional love, and a lot of other
things. BIG words!
Points
to Remember:
When
you are where you intend to be, doing what you intend to do, for a goal or
purpose you intend to realize, you are less likely to be knocked off your
center square.
In
the quest for spiritual strength you must order your mind, your body, and all
of your affairs. You must clean out and reorder everything in your
environment. (p. 313)
