During
a weekend away at the beach, I devoured Erika Morrison’s book,
Bandersnatch.
She encourages us to explore our unconventional
soul and she asks us in a way that is
poetic, lyrical, and forever outside the box.
Life
is not about “going out and fulfilling self-serving acts so that we
can feel good
about ourselves. It’s about being one, being whole,
being a family, and being catalysts of
love and healing back and
forth.”
I
bought this book because I fell in love with Morrison’s words on
her blog,
The Life Artist. I’ll read it again and again to keep the
words fresh in my heart, especially
when legalism rears up and stops
me in my tracks.
Buy
it for yourself and then buy it for the friends who will inevitably
come to mind as you
read it. I know many who have been disappointed by man-made church life and they have
walked away. I
get it. I'm still too Protestant to walk completely away, but so many
times
I’ve felt like I was on the outside looking in through the pretty stained glass windows. I
couldn’t live up to the expectations that put Jesus and God and
Holy Spirit in a pretty box.
Everything in me wanted to bust right
out of the box and scream, “NO! He made me to be so
much more than you allow me
to be.”
The
words of Morrison’s heart echo that and put an exclamation point on
abandoning
boxes and heading straight to the source and saying to
Him, “You made me. What now?
Where are you leading me?” I dare
say the answer will be astonishing and unlike anyone
else's answer.
Go
check out this clip she asked me to share, then go buy Bandersnatch
and unwrap your
unconventional soul this Christmas.
