What a book can do to you

I have been posting much in this blog lately. My life is pretty much up and down which make my life more fun (or funner ? haha.. ).
One truth is, when I feel hopeless and have nowhere to run, I feel God is closer to me (or I closer to God ? ... maybe the last phrase is better :) I know that He would never abandon me, and His Words are proved to be so true and alife!!

I experienced also how God lead me in the critical time - I may say that I could feel a little bit of the phrase that King David said when he went through the valley of the death - well.. a little bit only - and yeah... God was there, His rod and stuff protected me... gorgeous !!!

I finally is going to finish the book that I've been reading from last year... oops hahaha... one more chapter! This book called: SECRETS OF YOUR FAMILY TREE
We all know that we are a product of our family - for better or for worse; but sometimes we don't realize that our family background is affecting the life that we have now.
Although we love our family, we cannot deny that some events or situation in our family had hurt us or left some deep scars in our soul; all those impact our life: the way we act, we think, or we relfect on relationship, etc - and unfortunately some of the effects are destructive and unwanted but we don't know how to stop the effect or even worse, we don't realize why.
This book help me to look back and reflect on myself and my family - and help me to be honest to myself to see if there are some things that need to be resolved with my family or with myself.
I recommend this book to you - I am sure by reading this book, you will feel a connection between the example cases with your own life. This is not a book that can be read in one or two days - some chapters request us to review stuff in our life - that's why it took me almost a year to finish it.. but it's worth the time :)

I will quote a prayer from a chapter in this book:

The Serenity Prayer

God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying the moment at a time,
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did,
this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it,
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen

(by Reinhold Niebuhr)