here are some excerpts from "my beautiful idol" by pete gall. i’m reviewing it, along with other bloggers, as part of the ooze’s select bloggers reading list/group. so far, when i’ve had a chance to sit and read i’ve rolled through pages. these are some spots that i marked for further thought & sharing.

.. if i do my job well [advertising agent], I’ll help derail the lives of kids who are no match for the power of my message and my thinly veiled invitation to foolish, sinful choices. Not everyone is offered such a clear-cut opportunity to choose the right path, and the clarity of it makes me think about the second half of my prayer that day on my way back to my dorm room after the accounting test – the part about "then you can have me." I know, deep down, that the truth of my success is that God let me walk with my idol until I could see it well enough to put it down and head the other direction.
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.. I can see people watching TV at the corner bar noticing the news article about that one. They’d have to admit that for whatever else a person may say about the people of God, Christians do make a difference and do display acts of loving generosity. That’s a "brand" people would join, would want to be associated with, would use to tell themselves and others the story of who they are. That would be a need worth creating, worth pointing out, worth creating a hunger for.

so far when i sit down to read i’m rolling through pages. much like a donald miller or shane claiborne writing of life experiences, the deep meaning is more hidden into story. which i can respect, it reaches different people in different ways. i am quite over some of the guy girl relationship stuff. i think what i like most so far.. the chapters are short. i like that a lot.