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Daily Guideposts 2011 Review

From The Back Of The Book

For thirty-five years, Daily Guideposts has been America’s favorite devotional, a daily companion helping millions of readers to a closer walk with God and a fuller, richer life. For every day of 2011, you’ll find a short Scripture verse for reflection, a true, first-person story of the ways God speaks to us in the ordinary events of life, and a brief prayer to help you put the day’s message to work in your own life.

In this special thirty-fifth anniversary edition, you’ll learn how simplifying your life can give you more room to love, share a harrowing journey from the darkness of depression back into the light, find healing for the heart in the heart of Africa, and discover how a casual postcard helped a sorrowing widow discover a new and still growing love.

Simply and directly, in just five minutes a d day, Daily Guideposts 2011 will help you appreciate the tokens of love that God will be showing you every day of the year.

My Take
My mother-in law always has one of the calenders that has a short quip about the day and how you should treat people or yourself and I look forward to seeing what it says when I visit.  I love the shortness of how one saying can change your outlook on the day.  Daily Guideposts 2011 is just that.  It contains a short verse for everyday in 2011 and has a small story to follow it up with and strengthens the point they are trying to get across.
I found Thursday March 10th to be a short story that was really able to hit home.  The verse at the top reads “So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all…”-Galatians 6:10 (RSV).  The verse is followed with a short story about a young girl who has given blood for the first time and how she felt great knowing that she had done something that could help save a life, that something so simple could mean something so big to somebody else.  As the one page story continues it tells how Ossie was hit by a car and had massive internal bleeding and would need a transfusion.  I try to be an avid blood donor because I know what good can come from it.  Stories like this just prove that it’s the small things in life that we do that can come back to us.
I have to admit that I am not that religious of a person.  I used to go to bible school when I was younger with a neighbor because that was fun…  But not being raised in an overly religious family, we all believed that there is a God, but we don’t feel like we have to sit in a church to be close with him or know his verses.   As a matter of fact I couldn’t tell you one verse or really any part of the bible, but I still enjoyed this book and felt that it had so much to offer to everybody.  It’s amazing what the power of positive stories can do for people and honestly I think that our society needs more of them.
I also enjoyed Sunday March 13th which talks about debt…  Something that so many of us could use in these economical times.  I encourage Daily Guideposts 2011 to anybody who would like to have a short uplifting story for everyday of the year and help build a stronger self and community by looking into yourself.
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