Challenge in unexpected places...

Am enjoying reading books that have been sitting patiently for some months now as college finished. One that I'm slowly working my way through right now came recommended in one of the Rwandan books I read earlier this year. Kay Warren is married to Rick Warren (Saddleback Church, Purpose Driven Life etc), and writes like she's sitting having coffee with you. It has to be one of the most challenging and encouraging books I've read this year, though I have to admit I did not think it would be before I started it. She talks openly about her battles with cancer, what it meant for God to break her heart and make her gloriously ruined and what it's meant for her to become involved in issues of justice and humanitarianism. Throughout the book she looks at what it means to confront evil, including the evil that we ourselves perpetrate, and what it means to look for the image of God in others, seeking to reach out to others as Jesus to them. I highly recommend it, though suggest reading it alongside someone else so as to encourage discussion and action.