Sidetracked

 Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods,  is still my next book to read as mentioned here, but I have gotten sidetracked with Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom and Nora Roberts Happy Ever After (book four in the bride quartet).  Yes, I have read the prior three.  Yes, I read them in public and Neal gets embarrassed in the airport, making me hide the front cover.  A-N-D.  Yes, I will be taking a hiatus from Nora for a long time.

Have a Little Faith on the complete opposite end of the book spectrum is an inspiring true story about faith, commitment and struggles.  A couple of excerpts that especially touched me were:

      

Page 144

Remember the only difference between marital and martial is where you put the i.

People expect too much from marriage today. They expect perfection. Every moment should be bliss.  That's TV or movie. But that is not the human experience.

(good thing I balanced out Nora with a reality check by Mitch)

Page 198

The same things in life can be good and evil, depending on what, with free will, we do with them.  Speech can bless or curse. Money can save or destroy.  Science can heal or kill.  Even nature can work for you or against you: fire can warm or burn; water can sustain life or flood it away.

But nowhere in the story of Creation, do we read the word 'bad'.  God did not create bad things.

So God leaves it to us?

I could recite more but I will leave some for you to read.  My recommendation is skip no skim Nora and read/study/memorize Mitch, now back to Bill page 36 to be exact.