Book Review:: One Month to Live

This book isn't one that you have to read only if you have one month left to live, read it now. Don't wait. Although, you never know. You may only have one month left. Or maybe one day, one year, 100 years. You just don't know. So why are you sitting here? Why are you reading through my blog? (Just kidding! Please do check it out). But seriously, what are you doing with your life right now? Is it what you would do with it if you only have one month left to live?

If you say yes, good for you!! Keep at it.

Did you say no? (Guess what, I did!). Then please check out this book.

Kerry and Chris Shook that you through thirty days to get your life into a place where you'll live with no regrets. Each day focuses on a part of your life that you'd like to change, enhance, relive so you can really live out your days. They challenge the reader with things like the "someday syndrome" when you keep saying 'someday I will...' They ask how are you loving: "Today, though most of us are so busy, constantly in motion...we work long hours to provide for the people we love...but we miss spending quality time with them....we can give them expensive gifts and luxury vacations but we struggle to give them out time and undivided attention...so why don't we live as if our relationships matter most?" They remind us where we came from, Whom our identity should be in, that our struggles are not only for our refinement but to help others. They are thought provoking questions such as "If you knew you only had one month to live, what 'cargo' would you throw overboard?" and "Take a sheet of paper and draw a large circle in the center of it. Divide the circle into a pie with eight pieces. Then label each section with an area of your life. Are you living out your values in each of those areas?" 

This book with challenge you beyond your little life right now to really truly live your life. I also thought I was doing a good job living my life. I am staying at home raising my daughter, taking care of the house, etc. What more could I want? In the first chapter I realized I was doing all those things but as I was I wasn't really. I read as my daughter was napping. Good for me!! I only work when she's not around. When she was around what was I doing? Oh yeah, watching TV, texting, playing on my numerous items of media. If I had one month left with her (yes, one month of tears!!!) would I want to be doing those things? NO!!! This book can convict in the first chapter. After that it's just ways to keep working on your life. How to live without regrets. Without thinking that someday... So don't say someday I'll check out this book. DO IT NOW!!

Disclaimer: I received this book for free from waterbrookmultnomah.com from this review. The opinions expressed are my own.