I finished this book and was so uplifted by it. There is a part where two black men are speaking about the problems of South Africa. A young reverend tells the older reverend his feelings about power. "...there is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power." When I read this I thought of my children. They are not looking for power they are truly just loving and that keeps under their complete control. They have more power over me than almost anything in this world.
He continues, "I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring only the good of their country, come together to work for it.... I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating." The spirit wispered to me that I have been prideful and desiring power in my marriage and that it was going to start causing problems. At first I thought this was crazy, our marriage was really good and we were happy. Over the next few days I started to notice that we were having small blow ups and 90% of the problem was me. I remeber clearly standing in the kitchen with a spoon stiring our dinner when this came to me. My anger at the thing we were arguing about disappeared when I thought that I need to stop this and start loving before I find that Matthew has turned to hating.
I highly reccomned this book!!!!
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