Light Source20pcs white led,2pcs red led,2pcs blue led. Can use as power bank,You can use the flood light to charging other device or you can us other device to. Eat, Pray, Love Book Summary. Eat, Pray, Love. By Elizabeth Gilbert Summary by Stacey Tuttle. Note With 5 million copies in print and a movie coming out August 1. Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem and James Franco, Elizabeth Gilberts book, Eat, Pray, Love, a New York Times Bestseller released in 2. Eat, Pray, Love is Gilberts beautifully written memoirs documenting her journey not just across the world, but more importantly through her exploration of faith. Shepherd Project Ministries does not agree with many of her spiritual views, but does think that she raises some important questions and issues, and that her book has been and will continue to be both significant and influential in the world at large, and as such is something Christians would do well to be familiar with and able to discuss. Gilbert, through her book and upcoming movie, has provided an immense opportunity for believers to engage with others in matters of faith. What follows is a summary of her book. Additional Resources INTRODUCTION or How This Book Works or The 1. BeadJapa Malas are strings of beads used by Hindus and Buddhists in meditation to help with focus and devotion this idea later morphed into the rosary. Three represents balance the Trinity, a barstool, etc., and japa malas have 1. Ergo, in effort to find personal balance, the book itself has 1. Italy to study pleasure and food, India to study prayer and meditation and Indonesia to study balance. There is a 1. This introduction serves as 1. Gilberts grateful acknowledgement to her teachers and friends. BOOK ONE ITALYor Say It Like You Eat It or 3. Tales about the Pursuit of Pleasure1I wish Giovanni would kiss me, is Gilberts opening hook. Giovanni is her Italian language exchange partner, whose charm is only increased by the fact that he is much younger, Italian, tall, dark and handsome and has an equally charming, tall, dark and handsome twin. But, she proceeds to explain why this is a bad idea. Its not that she has any moral compunction about having twin lovers, but that she has decided that, in her search for healing and peace, a year of celibacy is necessary medicine. Gilbert flashes back to three years ago to tell the events that catapulted her out of her marriage and into this journey across the world. As she said, I was trying so hard not to know this, but the truth kept insisting itself to me. I dont want to be married anymore. I dont want to live in this big house. I dont want to have a baby. As the primary bread winner, she had worked hard to create the ideal suburban life, and even as it progressed famously on the outside, on the inside she was not only questioning that she wanted it, but dreading having to live it. She declines to give specifics on the collapse of her marriage, admitting it would be a biased report. But, the critical point not only of this chapter but also in her life happened as her marriage disintegrated What happened was that I started to pray. You know like, to God. 3. As she has introduced that loaded wordGod into the book for the first time, she takes a chapter to, explain exactly what I mean when I say that word, just so people can decide right away how offended they need to get. She describes her very inclusive theology saying that even though she uses the word God she could just as easily use the words Jehovah, Allah, Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu or Zeus or the ancient Sanskrit That or even the most poetic manifestation of Gods name The Shadow of the Turning. She says the terms themselves are all equally adequate and inadequate descriptions of the indescribable and she has chosen the name God out of simple preference. Gilbert was raised Protestant and therefore considers herself a cultural Christian and not a theological one, meaning that, though she does love that great teacher of peace who was called Jesus and even occasionally asks herself, WWJD, she cant swallow that one fixed rule of Christianity insisting that Christ is the only path to God. Rather, she is drawn with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts and who has reported that God is an experience of supreme love. She compares her beliefs about God to a really great dog she got from the pound a mixture of about ten different breeds that seemed to have inherited the finest features of them all. When asked what kind of dog she had, she simply answered brown. Similarly, when the question is raised, What kind of God do you believe in my answer is easy I believe in a magnificent God4. Gilbert describes her first prayer, speaking to the creator of the universe as though wed just been introduced at a cocktail party, the simple essence of her prayer, Please tell me what to do. and the response she received which began with a comforting sense of being surrounded by silence and stillness and ended up with a voice speaking to her from within that still silence with warm compassion. The voice, she said, was her own voice, speaking from within herself. She says it was perfectly wise, calm and compassionatewhat my voice would sound like if Id only ever experienced love and certainty in my life. What did it say Go back to bed, Liz. She says this wasnt so much a religious conversion experience as the beginning of a religious conversation. Her divorce got uglier than she thought possible. Meanwhile, she falls in love and moves in with David and 9 1. The relationship with David became a vortex of insecure addiction and withdrawal. Gilbert is honest and insightful in her analysis of herself during this time, making a poignant parallel between herself hooked on Davids love, which was often withdrawn and a junkie whose dealer no longer supplies the drug for free. Gilbert qualifies that there were a few good things that did happen during the years of her divorce and onoff again relationship with David. The first good thing was that she started learning Italian for the pure love of it. The second good thing that happened during this time was that she was introduced by David to an Indian Guru to help her in her newfound spiritual journey. The final good thing was that, on a business trip in Bali, an old medicine man invited her to or rather prophesied that she would return to Bali and live with him for a time. He read her palm and prophesied several things that she was a writer, would lose her fortune shortly and then regain it later, that she would have 2 marriages and that she would soon return to Bali. Wanting both worldly enjoyment and divine transcendencethe dual glories of a human lifethe singular balance of the good and the beautiful she decided to take a year to travel to Italy, India and Indonesiafour months in each place. And in each place, rather than try to explore the country itself, Gilberts goal was to thoroughly explore one aspect of herself in a place that has traditionally done that thing very well Pleasure in Italy, Devotion in India, and Balance in Indonesia. Before she could go, however, the divorce had to be finalized and was getting really ugly. She confessed to a friend that she wished she could just petition God for help, but she felt guilty asking God for things she wanted rather than just the courage and grace to handle whatever comes. At her friends advice, she agreed to try petitioning the universe. So she asks God to intervene admitting failure in the marriage, but also pointing out that their divorce is becoming a poisonous process to all involved and therefore needs to be resolved. Furthermore, It is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it, she writes. Her friend then proceeds to help Gilbert get the petition signed by all the hearts who would agree with that petitionso they began to call out names of everyone they could think of who would agree with and sign that petition including Bill Hillary Clinton, St.
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