Book: Dangerous Wonder
Author: Michael Yaconelli
Published: 1998
Genre: Christian Living
Finished: February 5, 2008

I think one of the main things I got out of this book and one of the most challenging things was that we need to surrender ourselves to the love of God. Abandon ourselves in him as a child who comes to the Father. Nothing we can ever do will make God love us any more or any less. He loves us as we are and asks us to come to him with child-like faith and sit at his feet. That is something that I need everyday. Remember that I don’t earn his love. My “works” are nothing. They are worthless. He just wants me to come to him so that he can poor out his love on me. “Childlike faith is for ordinary people. People like you and me who know our flaws only too well. We are familiar with our inconsistencies and our unsaintliness and understand the good news of the gospel - Jesus Christ liberates us from the oppression of our ordinariness and gives us permission to trust God to make us extraordinary.”

“One day we shall all be gathered in that great concert hall of God, and we will hear the glorious beauty of the concerto God was playing while you and I plunked out our childlike version of “Chopsticks.”