Personal review of: The Grand Weaver, How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives by Ravi Zacharias.

This is a wonderful book. It is a book that is by no means a quick read but that is a good thing as it has you pondering things deeply about how the events of your own life have shaped you. I’ve always believed everything we go through is for a reason but he really helps you explore how they shape our lives. A great read I would recommend to anyone.

Blessings,
Lori Arriaga, Founder
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Overview of THE GRAND WEAVER (Zondervan; Hardcover; July 2007):

Why has God made it so difficult to sense his presence and believe in his existence? Many skeptics and believers find themselves asking this question when it comes to understanding God’s participation in our lives. International apologist Ravi Zacharias examines how we continually interrupt the plan God has created for us in his new book, THE GRAND WEAVER.

In his book, Zacharias explains that we are all a part of God’s design; from our disappointments to our triumphs, every part of our lives is a small piece of a greater design. THE GRAND WEAVER goes beyond the theoretical nature of the question of God’s influence in our lives like in Zacharias’s previous books by showing the appointments God makes with each of us, and how we can recognize and appreciate them. By showing us the snagged stitches and the “flaws” that show up at all the “wrong times.” Zacharias contends that this is where we will find the distinctive shape and imprint of the Master Weaver.

Zacharias mixes inspiring stories and thought provoking questions to help people begin to see how the multiple threads of our lives become a large tapestry of our world. Understanding how our joys, our tragedies and daily lives create this pattern of divine providence and meaning behind God’s grand design.

“Only when you see this pattern for yourself can you see the breadth of God’s care for the cosmic scene and his personal care for your life,” explains Zacharias. “To allow God to be God we must follow him for who he is and what he intends, and not for what we want or what we prefer.”

To Learn more about the book or to listen to audio and video discussions visit Zondervan

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The older I get the more I realize how important it is to not only create family traditions but also record them. There are many ways to go about recording your family traditions through pictures, videos, scrapbooking and journal writing. I have taken many pictures in the past but have only managed to get some of them put into albums but still have never seemed to get them organized. Neither have I been a very creative person so scrapbooking was always out of the question for me.

Like I said though, the older I get, the more I realize how important it is to record our family traditions. I have always been more of a technical person and love to write so the digital recording of family traditions appeals to me much more.

With the new school year coming up and as a home school mom of two, I will need to make this more of a n ongoing family project in our home schooling agenda with me and my kids in order to ensure we record all those special family times we have. That way, I hope to also instill in my children the love and importance of passing on family traditions.

I decided to start this blog as a way to connect with other home school moms as well and to share some of our family traditions and homeschooling projects. I hope this family blog will be an inspiration to all who reads it.

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