Doug Walker, our senior pastor at Fellowship of the Parks, wrote this book which is the story of his journey in facing the challenges of feeling rejected and unaccepted.   Doug was given up by his birth mother and adopted.   While the fact that he was adopted led to its own set of issues, he also struggled with what he felt like was a lack of unconditional love from his adoptive mother.  This all resulted in years of having his self worth tied to performance.

Doug’s story is compelling and each person who reads this book will find themselves somewhere in the story.  In the end, discovering the richness of being loved unconditionally by God helped Doug reconcile the pain of the past. 

This book is an easy read.  Anyone can benefit from reading it but those touched by adoption in any way will find it most helpful.

This was a bargain table book.   I read the introduction where the author shared the title he had submitted to the publisher, Creating Heuristic Educational and Psychological Thematics Reproducing Idiopathic Cognitive Kinesthetic Systems and I was hooked. 

I reality this is a simple, easy to read, fun book.  Here is some of the insightful information I gained from reading it:

·         The colors red and yellow tend to make us eat more and faster.  Any fast food restaurants come to mind?

·         70% of all the information your brain receives comes from your eyes

·         To ride a roller coaster without throwing up, look straight ahead.  Don’t shut your eyes because this overloads and confuses your kinesthetic and vestibular sensory systems.

·         You are probably only about six people away from meeting any person in the world.

·         Never show up for an exam early.  If another student asks you questions about the material that you can’t answer, anxiety sets in.

This is just a small sampling of some of the types of information contained in this book .   It was definitely a bargain and worth the money.