Differing perspectives

I am reading a book called Blue Like Jazz. I love being exposed to differing perspectives, and the perspectives of author Donald Miller are "fresh and original." He says authenticity is important to him and he writes in such a way. I too love authenticity and am enjoying his honesty and kinda quirky take on a variety of subjects.

Here's a fun thought (especially since I love both chocolate and reading Bible); these words were said by one of his friends--

“…the Bible is so good with chocolate. I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn’t. It is a chocolate thing…" p 47

And a couple of the author's thoughts on love:

"Love, for example, is a true emotion, but it is not rational. What I mean is, people actually feel it. I have been in love, plenty of people have been in love, yet love cannot be proved scientifically. Neither can beauty. Light cannot be proved scientifically, and yet we all believe in light and by light see all things. There are plenty of things that are true that don’t make any sense." P 54
"There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere. Of course, I had always known He was, but this time I felt it, I realized it, the way a person realizes they are hungry or thirsty. The knowledge of God seeped out of my brain and into my heart. I imagined Him looking down on this earth, half angry because His beloved mankind had cheated on Him, had committed adultery, and yet hopelessly in love with her, drunk with love for her." P 100