Life Can Be A Miracle (five star book review)

Life Can Be a Miracle by Ivinela Samuilova

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Opening up your world and allowing everyday life to become laced with miracles is an avenue that too few people explore and therefore do not fully understand that life can actually become much richer and much fuller. “Life Can Be a Miracle” by Ivinela Samuilova is the story of how one woman’s world was opened up to the possibilities of the beauty that can suddenly appear before us when we go beyond and above the boundaries that society and culture use to restrict us. As Adie works through several different levels of discovering who she is, she begins to see the miracles that happen all around her in everyday life. Through the guidance of Alexey, she begins to unlock and discard the preconceived ideas that have kept her bound and unable to discover who she really is.

“Life Can Be a Miracle” was more than a pleasant discovery for me. Ivinela Samuilova has literally taken me to another level of discovery of which I was right on the edge of coming to and pushed me right on over. The joy of discovering that one can actually trigger their own potential and then just let it flow rather than fighting every step of the way is exactly what I needed to encounter. Though it is written as a fictional novel, in many ways, it is a self-help book to those who are open to the message. Honest, direct and enlightening; “Life Can Be a Miracle” is a must read for anyone who is searching for the beauty and miracle of living.




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HOW DO YOU PUT ON YOUR CLOTHES?

I realize that is a strange title. What exactly does it mean? Why would I ask such a simple question?

I'm not going to answer that for a minute. First, I'm going to tell you about a short book that I'm writing, which actually grew out of a Sunday School Lesson that I taught nearly a dozen years ago.

What comes to mind when you think of a wolf in sheep's clothing? Call me nuts, but I have always had the image of Warner Brothers' characters of Ralph and Sam. Do you remember the coyote and the sheep dog? They punch a clock every morning and then go about their own specific jobs. In nearly every episode, the coyote, Sam, zips himself up into the costume of a sheep in order to try to get into the herd. That's the image I have. From that I developed a Sunday School Lesson and from the Sunday School Lesson, I developed a short book, which I am still writing called "Sheep Don't Wear Wool... They Grow It."

That brings me back around to answering the reason for the question and the question itself. Right before I awakened this morning, I had a dream. In that dream, there was a very simple message. We can't put on the clothing and robes of Christ to become Christlike, just like anything other than a sheep cannot put on a wool costume and become a sheep. It is the same with everything we are and do in our daily lives. We can't put on a surgical gown, gloves and mask and start doing a coronary bypass surgery, simply because we're wearing the clothing. I brushed by the point of the question, but that's still not the answer.

In the case of becoming Christlike, we were promised the Holy Spirit to dwell within us and change us. Let that sink in a minute.

An apple tree produces apples because it has the make up of an apple tree within it. Somewhere in the sap of the tree is the nutrients necessary to make those apples grow to be large and sweet, small and bitter or some combination in between. The outer clothing of a sheep is not a wool costume, but actual wool which grew out of the nature of whatever genetic makeup causes sheep to grow wool.

When you do what you do; when you get out of bed in the morning and go through the ritual of going to your job or vocation; how do you put on your clothes? Do you put them on a someone who is adding something to themselves that is not a part of who they really are or are they an actual part of who you are?

How do you put on your clothes?

"Bookworm" by Jason Srebnick Destined to Be a Classic!!!

This book fits my blog like a glove and it fits my philosophy of books and reading like a sock. This book explains the kind of world that we are destined to live in if we do not continue to appreciate, pursue and educate others of the intrinsic value of reading FICTION NOVELS!

How much of our current society and culture do you take for granted? Image a world where the Corporation comes first and controls everything in your life from birth to death. Along the lines of 1984, “Bookworm” by Jason Srebnick will draw you back to an appreciation of many of the things that you now take for granted. Aaron Cogwell is an ideal citizen in the Corporate world of New Boston. He works seven days a week for seventeen hours a day, aided by chemicals that keep his mood in balance. Every thirty-six days he enjoys a four hour stoppage of work, in which he enjoys a few hours of free time with his family. His dream is to have a more spacious living space and more things to display in his display case. He simply doesn’t know that there is any alternative to the world in which he lives until destiny, fate or luck would come his way and he is suddenly thrust out of that life and into a much simpler and more primitive way of life when his pod crashes into the forest. The strange new things in this new, anti-corporate world are at times more than he can take. Will he ever be the same again? Will he ever be able to be happy in the Corporate world?



“Bookworm” is painful at times in its truth. Jason Srebnick has done an excellent job of giving us a look into what our world would look like if everything was run by huge corporations and work and getting ahead was all that mattered. It does this in a way that reminds those of us who have a deep love for the freedom that we have found in our leisure and more importantly in our books. The glaring difference between reading a book by turning the pages and having a book read to you or watching a book on a video is developed in stark contrast. I give high praise to Jason Srebnick for reminding us all that there are a lot of things in this world worth holding onto, even while we reach for our next ebook. Superb! "Bookworm" is destined to be a classic.