What would God blog?
If you love God, and love to laugh, have I got a book for you.
Entitled God’s Blogs: Insights from His Site, it is a humorous look at what God might write about if He had His own blog. Written by Lanny Donoho and with recommendations from everybody from Andy Stanley (pastor, North Point Community Church) to Dolly Parton (I’m assuming you know who she is), this book is both funny and insightful.
First, how I found it. A group of us moms go to Barnes & Noble every Friday night… I mean EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT. We bring our kids and let them play in the kids area, while we sit there solving the world’s problems and drink mocha frappuccino’s (ok, I just drink water, but my friend’s drink the frapps). Last week, this book “appeared” in front of me. Usually the only thing that appears in front of me at B&N is a peanut butter-chocolate cookie, so I was intrigued. Turns out the daughter of my friend had picked it up to have a look, and somehow it ended up in front of me.
Hmmm, what would God say to us if He could communicate by blog? That was an interesting thought. Sure would make life easier, huh?
The book opens with a “nondisclaimer.”
In case there are those out there who would have a problem with someone writing or speaking for God…
Try to relax.
This book is supposed to be an enjoyable look at the principles God put in the Bible… and they’re done with a twist. For some people it is easier to grasp the grace and truth of God if they feel like His word is personal to them…from Him…
Everybody has their ideas of what God might want to say to them.
These are mine.
One of the first pages I came to was called: Favorite stuff I have done. Some of the entries are;
• That Red Sea incident, • Surprise Lazarus! You’re back!, The whole Jonah episode…
You get the idea.
But when I began reading the book more deeply, an amazing thing happened. I began to realize that this was leading me into a place of worship! This silly little book was giving me a fresh look at God.
So many times religion is so serious… we can’t see the humor for the stained glass, as my childhood preacher used to say. I even wrote about it in a blog the other day (Did Jesus Laugh?)
But this funny little book touches on real life topics. Marriage, and what God intended it to be. Preachers, and their role in our lives. And funny little things like making it snow in Florida… and the resulting snowball fight (a true story interwoven into the “blog”)
The book talks about time, from God’s perspective, and about how we always claim that we don’t have enough of it. And about money and tithing, and about how all belongs to God.
Periodically in the book there are “blogjots,” or random thoughts. All are good, but one sticks out to me:
BTW… reflections happen best when you are standing near to that which you want to reflect. (That which you were made to reflect.)
That one has stuck to me like glue. If I want to check my makeup in the mirror, I move closer to it. If I want my daughter to behave, I pull her close to me.
So it stands to reason, if I want to reflect God’s love, shouldn’t I move closer to him? And there are so many ways to draw closer to Him… through study, music, and even laughter… after all, He invented laughter (it says so, right there in his blog!)
So I hope you will get a chance to look at (and maybe even buy!) “God’s Blogs” by Lanny Donoho. You’ll laugh a lot, and be blessed in the process.
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