The Life You’ve Always Wanted by John Ortberg

I had this book for a couple years before I decided to read it. I learned a lot of things and loved the messaging throughout the book. T9his was a book that gave me a lot of important things to think about and remember.

I think that this is so so important and so so true.

Pg. 20, Psychologist Aaron Beck says that the single belief most toxic to a relationship is the belief that the other person cannot change.

I highlighted this from a portion of the book that talked about the author spending time with someone in a hospital who would recite the Bible and even in the midst of pain and imminent death, she would praise.

Pg. 23, and often when I would pause she would continue reciting the passage from memory, word-for-word. I never heard her speak of loneliness or pain except in the stress she placed on certain lines in certain hymns.

Here is what he wrote next about her which just left me in awe and inspired me.

Pg. 24, So I went to her and asked, “Mabel, what do you think about when you lie here?”

And she said, “I think about my Jesus.”

“I sat there, and thought for a moment about the difficulty, for me, of thinking about Jesus for even five minutes, and I asked, ‘What do you think about…