Back when I started learning about all this love and respect stuff, I couldn’t help but wonder WHY? Why were men and women so different? Haven’t I heard so much of my life that men and women are pretty much the same? That everything that makes them different is based on our cultural upbringing and not on an internal soul-level difference?
And I knew me and I understood me but I did not understand my husband. So I grabbed a book about men. Wild At Heart by John Eldredge gave me an insight to man’s soul-level uniqueness. Something I desperately needed to know and understand.
Do you know what? It matched amazingly with what I was learning about the different ways men and women communicate and receive love. It was awesome. I felt like my insides were doing the wave at an Indians game. [Which we do a lot…baseball games are long.]
Now I’m really excited to have Killing Lions by John Eldredge and his son, Sam.
Killing Lions grew out of weekly conversations John and Sam had as Sam navigated the world after college. He was struggling with something we can all relate with – he was supposed to be an adult now, but how was he supposed to get to the “there” and navigate the in between parts?
Specifically, he wanted to be a man, to know how, and there was a battle in him of knowing what to do and when and how and he wondered why things are and his talked with him about how his ‘man’ was coming out and how his ‘boy’ was coming out.
My husband and I got married when we fresh out of college. There were a lot of things that we felt like we were just supposed to know…like what is that sound on the car? Or how much earnings do we withhold? And can we afford this thing really?
I think we all wake up one day and think “O _____ (insert: marriage, baby, house, job) has happened and now I’m an adult and so I have to look, act, think, smell like an adult.” and we forget to extend ourselves the grace that there is a learning curve. A very important learning curve.
This book talks about that learning curve. It talks about the money cycle, doing what you love, making decisions, and choosing to love.
And, it’s written like you are sitting in on their father and son chats. Sam talks about his life and poses his questions, and John extends his fatherly wisdom and sage advice.
This book should be handed to guys as they cross the stage at graduation. Seriously. The simplicity of the every day and yet the profound attributes of the truth are powerful.
What do you think? Which books do you love about growing as the person God has for you to be?
**I was sent Killing Lions to review by Family Christian Bookstores. The opinions in this review are my own.**
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