Hello ,
According to Amazon, the most highlighted passage in all books read on Kindle (as of November 2014)—highlighted almost twice as often as any other passage—is from the second volume of The Hunger Games: "Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them."
University professor Mark Shiffman comments on this passage:
"It's easy to see why The Hunger Games is the novel [of a] generation. The trilogy depicts adolescents rigorously trained by adults for desperate but meaningless life-or-death competitions. [The story] resonates with students' … worry that they're all
honed up with no place to go … They rack up majors, minors, certificates, credentials, and internships to keep them in the running for what they feel to be an ever more elusive success.
They're driven by fear … They clothe themselves in an armor of achievement that they hope will protect them against uncertainties—of the job
market, of course, but also deeper uncertainties about their status, their identities, their self-worth … [They are trying to gain] more control over an uncertain future."*
What this world really needs is a hope in something bigger than themselves. God has answers, but we are often so caught up in attempting to find the solutions
in a way that WE find acceptable, that we miss out on what God desperately wants to share with us.
"I am the LORD, and there is none else; beside me there is no God: I will gird thee, though thou hast not known me:" Isa. 45:51
Fear is a legitimate feeling...perfect love can remove it!
Have a great day and God bless!
Pastor Mike / The Open Word
