Book Reviewer for Church

Recently I have wanted to become more active in my church and found out that there was a team that reviewed books for the bookstore. What could be more perfect for me? So I'm finally reviewing my first book after months of procrastonating. The book entitled, Gotta Have It! is about today's world of excess and how people are trying to satisfy unmet needs of purpose, hope, and security with desiring things.

The author, Dr. Gregory Jantz also wrote; Hope, Help, and Healing for Eating Disorders and is the founder of The Center for Counseling and Health Resources. I hope to learn a lot about today's obsession with possession and at least think more about the purchases I make and if I really "need" what I'm buying or if I'm trying to feed another unmet need with my purchase. Like many others in my generation, I too have made purchases that were completely unnecessary and have come to regret some of those impulse buys. But, in seeing how many toys many children have today and how silly it is that they have so many toys that some never really get played with, I have made a decision to not do the same with my own children. I know their grandparents will spoil them, but I won't buy them so many things that they cannot appreciate the value of what they already have. This may seem a bit lofty a goal for my future children, but I think it will teach them many lessons: to share what they do have, to appreciate what they have, to take care of what they have, and to only request what they really, really want.

Well, I'll keep you up to date with this book, since I have to return it in two weeks, I'll have more blogs too. I really do want to keep this blog up in the hopes that some people will read books they might not have because of my reviews.