Saturday, August 18, 2007

I am reading this book that one of my buddy, John Lim gave me on my birthday-Wild at Heart. I ain't much of a reader, actually. I read, anyway.

John knew there was something really inside me when we met, everyone knew i was insane at what i do, often too energetic to even slow down! However, he kinda knew me personally and bought the book because he knew that inside me was a world i battle alone.

Then when i read a few pages, i understood why he got this very book. This dear friend believed in me. Ah...I love John too. There is something i can offer, that adventure to live. That Wild Heart to fire up for God, my life and the people hanging around me...and that i shouldn't hold back my possibilities.

Through this author John Eldredge, i stepped into another world i never knew was so magical and i dared to dream again...



Synopsis
EVERY MAN WAS ONCE A BOY. And every little boy has dreams, big dreams: dreams of being the hero, of beating the bad guys, of doing daring feats and rescuing the damsel in distress. Every little girl has dreams, too: of being rescued by her prince and swept up in to a great adventure, knowing that she is the beauty.

But what happens to those dreams when we grow up? Walk into most churches, have a look around, and ask yourself: What is a Christian man? Without listening to what is said, look at what you find there. Most Christian men are...bored.

In Wild at Heart, John Eldredge invites men to recover their masculine heart, defined in the image of a passionate God. And he invites women to discover the secre of a man's sould and to delight in the strength and wildness men were made to offer.

Page 11:
I gaze into boyhood, i search the pages of literature, i listen carefully to many, many men, and i am convinced these desires are universal, a clue into masculinity itself. They may be misplaced, forgotten, or misdirected, but in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.



Page 13:
The universal nature of this ought to have convinced us by now: The boy is a warrior; the boy is his name. And those are not boyish antics he is doing. When boys play at war they are rehearsing their part in a much bigger drama. One day, you just might need that boy to defend you.

Those Union soldiers who charged the stone walls at Bloody Angle; the Allied troops that hit the beaches at NOrmandy or the sands of Iwo Jima - what would they have done without this deep part of their heart? Life needs a man to be fierce - and fiercely devoted. The wounds he will take throughout his life will cause him to lose heart if all he has been trained to be is soft. This is especially true in the murky waters of relationships, where a man feels least prepared to advance. As Bly says, "In every relationship something fierce is needed once in a while."

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Page 14:
Flying Tigers, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Magnificent Seven, Shame, High Noon, Saving Private Ryan, Top Gun, the Die Hard films, Gladiator - the movies a man loves reveal what his heart longs for, what is really inside him from the day of his birth.

Like it or not, there is something fierce in the heart of every man.



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