Why Can't I Get It Together? - by Jamie Ivey (Paperback)
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About the Book
Jamie Ivey, popular Christian speaker and host of 'The Happy Hour, ' shares the utter relief of not having to be perfect
Book Synopsis
We're trying to "get it together" in areas we have no control over. We keep trying, but we'll never move the needle to a better future because it has nothing to do with us or anything we can do.
You don't always have to give in to what the world, your family, or your own self declares is the way things are "supposed" to be. God desires goodness and joy for us. God, Jesus, and the Spirit went to great lengths to offer you and me the best good news ever.
In Why Can't I Get It Together?, Jamie Ivey, host of The Happy Hour podcast, shares how to
Define the reality of your current circumstances
Ponder the areas of your life that are out of control
Stop self-shame
Create better expectations for yourself
Move forward in an effort to chase holiness
Jamie guides us through six areas of our lives that are affecting our perception of God's love in our realities. Dig deep into God's Word to see what it says about why we keep sinning, how to stop, and what God feels about us in the midst of it all.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.38 (H) x 5.5 (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 224
Genre: Religion + Beliefs
Sub-Genre: Christian Life
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback
Author: Jamie Ivey
Theme: Personal Growth
Language: English
Street Date: February 13, 2024
TCIN: 89464399
UPC: 9781400333929
Item Number (DPCI): 059-04-1290
Origin: Made in the USA
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I loved her transparency to write about the hard stuff that no one is talking about.
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Some great messages but flawed worldview creeps in
2 out of 5 stars
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Laura - 1 year ago
I read this entire book before writing this review, so I am being as fair as possible. The author shares from her heart and opens up about her struggles. The conversational style makes for easy reading. The tiny "footnotes" are distracting to me. Most of what she says in "footnotes" are things she could have put into the paragraphs themselves. Some of the "struggles" I just could not relate to, and they took away from my desire to take advice from her. Example: chapter 9 opens with a confession about not getting her car inspected (required in Texas) for 5 YEARS and then giving the car to her teen son and worry about him driving it with a 2016 sticker - in 2021. I live in Texas. It's not hard to get your car inspected. It might take an hour, but usually less time than that. So it is hard to take advice from someone who "can't get it together" (her own words) enough to get the car inspected for 5 YEARS. She also had a difficult attitude to understand relating to the value of unborn infants. Example: pp. 185-186 relates a friend who went through the deaths of several children. The author says she will never know what it feels like "burying babies." Yet earlier in the book, the author opens up about two miscarriages she had (one was an ectopic pregnancy requiring surgery) both before she was married to her husband, Aaron. She has had two babies die - does that not count because it was before she was married? This view is highlighted on p. 131 when she says she can think of "a million more things that should matter greatly to us...than abortion, gay marriage, and transgenderism." She goes into a discussion of "Crotch Christianity" and talks about how God cares about us a lot more than just what is going on with our sexuality. I agree - God DOES care a lot more about us than just what is going on with our sexuality, but the author misses the point that our bodies and what we do with them REFLECT God - since we're made in his image. She conveys a huge disconnect which is especially hard to reconcile given that chapter 6 is all about our bodies and taking care of them. I'm not going to get into a theological discourse here, but there is so much more to this topic that she just glosses over and then has major issues with even within her own book and chapters. I had a hopeful attitude going into the book, and there IS some really great information, but overall, it does not have to be as long as it is. The author spends a fair amount of time repeating herself throughout the book so that by the end, I was left wondering if she didn't have any more ideas to communicate - thus the reason for the repetition. Finally, she constantly talks about "your current reality" when talking to the reader. This terminology bothered me, because I think what she means is "your current situation." Reality is reality - and gravity is gravity. Reality is that if you walk off a cliff, you will fall down. This is a terminology issue, but it has deeper roots, because a major problem today is humans attempting to revise "reality" through various means - technological, biological, etc. This allows for us to revamp "reality" when all we are really doing is manipulating ourselves to believe we are changing "reality." This is woven throughout the entire book, and it causes people to think that the author ascribes to the possibility of changing "reality" and all that comes with it.
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JustMe - 1 year ago
I have never heard of Jamie till today, but I wanted to support someone in a tough season and this was a way to do it.
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K - 1 year ago
Jamie does a great job of being real and pointing us to Jesus!