The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begin

Shirley J.                Adult Non-Fiction           Where the end of me and the beginning of Jesus begins

The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begin by Kyle Idleman  224 pages

A fun and deeply personal delving into Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.  Kyle Idleman gives a new way of looking at what Jesus was telling His followers:  You have to be at your lowest to appreciate Jesus taking you to your highest,  mourning is going to happen because we have so much love within us but mourning is also the path to blessing, we have to be emptied emotionally if we are to experience fullness of spirit, brokenness is the way to achieve wholeness.  The paradox is you have to be one or the other but the hurt and bad we go through leads to richness, because when you come to that broken, empty place where you have to look up to see over your shoes there is Jesus waiting for you, bending down to lift you up and comfort you, show you the love you deserve and giving His grace and shining His light upon you in your deepest darkness, He is the light that will guide you out of it and into all the glory of God that is yours as His child.   Great book.   I like the way he thinks and I love the way he shares his thoughts.  I recommend this to grade schoolers on up.    Learn to look beyond the teachings that seem to contradict each other but are so simple in theory and practice when you look at it.   Wonderful book.