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Go Love (Luke 7:36-50) Chris Altrock – November 5, 2017

Solving the Puzzle of Me

Eleanor Oliphant is the main character of a book by Gail Honeyman.[1] She is raised by an abusive mother. As an adult she reacts to the pain of the childhood abuse by withdrawing socially and spending her weekends behind closed doors in her small apartment drinking vodka.

After a particularly depressing weekend in which she almost dies from alcohol poisoning, Eleanor comes to her senses:

My life, I realized, had gone wrong. Very, very wrong. I wasn’t supposed to live like this. No one was supposed to live like this. The problem was that I simply didn’t know how to make it right…no one had ever shown me the right way to live a life, and although I’d tried my best over the years, I simply didn’t know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me. [Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman]

The Bible is full of people like Eleanor. People who aren’t sure how to live a life. People who can’t solve “the puzzle of me.”Read More »Go Love (Luke 7:36-50) Chris Altrock – November 5, 2017