Max on Life by Max Lucado

Hope. Hurt. Help. Boy/Girl Issues. Home. Have and Have Not. The Hereafter. Big issues that cause us big questions that need big answers from God.

Max on Life is Max Lucado's latest offering to the world of godly advice. This question and answer format gives his best answers to the questions asked most often. He takes his answers from Scripture, from personal experience and from his experiences as a pastor. This book takes issues from each part of life that causes our hearts to wonder, questions that “leave us… burdened and weary.”

This book categorizes the questions Max answers into specific topics and while reading through the whole book in a sitting can seem repetitive, for anyone seeking answers to these kinds of questions, the book is wonderfully informative and extremely helpful. The answers are scripturally based, and Mr. Lucado knows that people are in need of the answers that God can give through his Word.

I know that, though I do not struggle with many of the issues presented in this book, I have friends who struggle deeply with these questions. They hurt, they are weary, they do not know what to do next. Sometimes I do not know how to help them. The answers Max Lucado provides in this book give me more words to give to those friends. It allows me a resource to help them. It is helpful to me in this way and helpful to them at the same time. I know that I will remember this book as I go through life and work to help friends or face these issues myself. And, I know I will be able to return to these pages and the Book that they point back to, the Bible for help for so many deep, heavy questions that are contained in this book.



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Day 15- A TV Show that Makes Me Happy

Okay. I love this show. Much more than I probably should. He's horrible, but deep down, I know he loves the people around him a lot. I also am a big enough dork to get excited when I know what the medical terms mean from my own experiences. Every time they say eosinophillic, I get excited. "Hey, I know that one!" So yes, this show makes me happy.

Day 14-A Conversation that Makes Me Happy ( from a movie, chat, whatever)

 We were talking on Skype one night when Joey fell SOUND asleep. It was funny. This conversation happened the next morning. It makes me happy because it was so funny! 

I kind of hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do :)

Sorry babe…after threatening to do it, I finally did…:-p

I know…I watched…I only hung up after I called you. :-) You were so out. And you only snored a little ;-)

I hope only a little…though I fear you have an accompanying hand motion for that… I’m so sorry I fell asleep on you babe. I said I wasn’t gonna… and well…

No hand motion…Really…And it was very soft snoring and onlya few minutes….And it was my fault…I saw you were tired and shouldn’t have let you get so deep before trying to get you to hang up. But you looked so cute…Well…Anyway…what finally woke you? :-)

I dunno…I Just woke up and suddenly realized I had fallen asleep, though I was grateful it was only midnight and not like 3am or something…and I wanted to see my beautiful girlfriend for as long as I could :-)

Day 13- A Movie that Makes Me Happy

It's new and it's my new favorite. For any of you who know me...I'm even saying this ALMOST beats Sleeping Beauty...not quite though. I want this movie. I want it SO MUCH. It's a perfect story, the animation is beautiful. It's simply fabulous. And considering I just cut my hair after more than seven years...I feel a special kinship with Rapunzel. This movie just makes me smile

Day 12- A Description or Picture of Someone Who Makes Me Happy

I promised myself that I wouldn't make this 30 Day Challenge all about the one person who makes me smile all day every day. But well, there is no one around who makes me more happy than this person.

Joey Rico. The name alone makes me smile. This man is an incredible source of encouragement. He has grown so much in Christ throughout the past seven years. He is the first in his family to get a college degree. He is getting his teaching credential in math (I know, crazy, right? but he loves it). He is a man of integrity and joy, peace and patience. He doesn't think he's worthy of all he has, but he deserves it all and more. He constantly brings me back to Scripture. He uplifts me and others constantly, even when he feels like the world is falling down around him. And I know that this isn't just me talking out of my love for him, because every person I talk to who knows him is amazed by him. Every person says how awesome he is and how glad they are when he is happy "because no one deserves it more." 

He knows how to be silly. He knows how to be serious. His heart breaks for the hardships of his students. He loves and takes care of his family. He is gentle with children and they love him. He is driven to succeed. He is introspective. He looks for opportunities to take care of others.

He is tall. He is handsome. He has brown hair and brown eyes. I could describe everything I love about how he looks, but you can look at the picture. I could go on to tell you about how amazing I think he is. I could go on to tell you so much about him, but well, you should get to know him yourself.


He makes me smile day in and day out. You know that old song "You are my Sunshine" that we sang as kids? He IS my sunshine, shining on me and shining Christ's love on me. He is my most wonderful friend, confidante and love. I am so thankful to God for him.

Day 11- A Story of Something that Made Me Happy Today

Ok so it's not really something huge but it made me happy nonetheless. 

So I love first graders.  A little background. We have "carpet time" and at first they were always saying "Teacher, he's touching me" "Teacher, she's crowding me" "Teacher..." Well, you get the picture. Anyway, so I took out some blue painter's tape and made squares on the carpet. "You will sit in your square and not touch anyone else and you will not touch the tape." Well, they're first graders, so you can guess how well the don't touch the tape thing went over. So lately, the tape has been disappearing rapidly.

Today one of my favorite students came up to me at the beginning of recess and hands me a roll of blue tape. For a moment I thought he'd gotten into my desk, which would be totally  out of character for him. And then he says to me "Teacher, I brought this for you to remake the squares." 

AWWWWWWW!!!! How sweet! I did make sure he'd asked permission to take it and he had, so I accepted it and thanked him. I say it again. I LOVE FIRST GRADERS!

Day 10- A YouTube Video that Makes Me Smile

This was again a difficult choice because I don't watch many youtube videos...but I found this one night trying to wake up someone who had fallen asleep mid conversation...and loved it. And it definitely made me smile!

Day 9- A Site that Makes Me Happy

I really don't have many sites to choose from since I rarely do anything online other than facebook and im. But I have to say this site has made me pretty happy recently...yes I'm a dork....because they give me books...FOR FREE! Woot Woot...All I have to do is read them and talk about what I think of them! Wow!

Day 8- Something I found while searching "Happiness" on Tumblr (or Google...)

I would just like to add that it also means letting Jesus help you move beyond the imperfections

Day 7- Something I found while searching Smile on Tumblr (or Google...)

I think this speaks for itself...and it's so cute!