Book Review: Interrupted

I was one of the 250 bloggers lucky to review an advance copy of Jen Hatmaker’s revised and expanded edition of Interrupted: When Jesus Wrecks your Comfortable Christianity. I missed the chance at offering the discount because… life. Which is why I obviously need to be interrupted. I'm doing the giveaway on facebook since my blog is more of a journal for the kids and family. To be honest I’m not done with the book because… life. It's the type of book you will read more than once. It really challenges your pursuit of self- the me me me version of you. It makes you look at how you LIVE your faith. This entire summer I have been at a disconnect because… life. Apparently all of the busyness (life) leaves me taking an honest look, a brutual, deep look at how I (we) are living. Rick’s schedule change- we both quit serving the littles at church because some Sunday’s he is sleeping and I have our kids in Sunday school and getting them picked up when I am serving doesn’t work. More disconnect. The statistics in the book hit you in the gut. The actual bigger picture: BEING the church. Serving and Loving. Straight to my gut.  Busy getting the house redone, projects galore, not home at all during the weekday evenings, get in some bible time before drifting off to sleep, missed workouts, basically do what you can to just get through each day, to get through the next week. It’s the same thought I keep having… “if I can just get through THIS week it will be better” then the next week comes and I think, “ Ok, ok in two weeks it will be better.” And keeping up with our jobs, there's that. We are headed into the fall soccer schedule and gym schedule and football and school starts and tutoring and.and.and... and sure enough, Jesus really needs to interrupt me. This summer has wreaked havoc on my spiritual self. It's wreaked havoc on our schedule. This transition of his work schedule has us doing marriage via post it notes and text messages.
When you read her "dangerous" prayer, "raise up in me a holy passion..."  You feel God stirring within you and you want to be more intentional because YOU'VE MISSED OUT while you've been doing comfortable Christianity (and maybe because you are super tired). It's a call to really live IT and not two weeks from now when the busyness subsides.