The Gift of Being Yourself

If I were sinless, the perfect image of God, I could know the God of love. But knowing myself as the sinner enables me to know something more: a God of mercy—something greater, for love responds to what is good and lovable;

This is a very challenging book. If we do listen to it fully and seek to implement it

in our life, it will lead to a transformation.

We believe we know how to take care of our needs better than God.

We all tend to fashion a god who fits our falsity.

It is not something you need to construct through a process of self-improvement or deconstruct by means of psychological analysis.

I am making such a big deal out of one consonant at the end of a name!

points back to the core of my false self. David—I confess—seems to fit better with the image of seriousness I want to project. Dave seems too common and ordinary, perhaps too familiar.

To claim to be so is a suicidal act that wounds our faith relationship with the living God and replaces it with a futile faith in a self that can never exist

making a name for himself. He wanted to be known as the one who single-handedly saved Judaism

In retrospect I would suggest that he was consumed by personal ambition.