After reading "The Treasure Principle" last month, my heart was stirred about the message and power of Biblical generosity. I was excited to dive into "Giving Is the Good Life," which seemed like the extended and expanded version. It was everything I hoped for, and more. I was so inspired and encouraged by Randy's approachable writing style and the refreshing, honest, and Biblically sound way he shares this message of how we can experience the generosity of God through the generosity of people. One of my favorite analogies is this: "Suppose you have something important you want delivered to someone who needs it. You wrap it up, address it, and hand it over to the delivery person. What would you think if, instead of delivering the package, the driver took it home, opened it, and kept it? Imagine confronting him and having him respond, 'Well, if you didn't want me to keep it, why did you give it to me in the first place?' You'd likely say something like, 'You don't understand your job. Yes, I put it in your hands, but I didn't expect you to keep it! The package doesn't belong to you. You're just the middleman. Your job is to get the package from me and deliver it to the person I want to receive it. I'm counting on you to get it where I intended it to go!' We need to stop thinking of ourselves as owners and instead see ourselves as God's couriers. His messengers. His delivery people." (-Randy Alcorn, "Giving Is the Good Life") This book is not a poverty-mindset book. This book is not going to tell you to give away everything you own and forgo all gifts we've been offered here on earth. But this book is one that takes an in-depth look at real life examples of the ways in which being God's delivery people not only allows us to be on the front-lines of answers to prayer in other's lives, but blesses our socks off in return. It will challenge you to take a honest look at your heart and it will bring the generosity of the Gospel to light in a whole new way. I will never look at what I have been entrusted with in the same way, and seeking to be a good steward of it has taken on a whole new meaning (and become a whole lot more FUN!). What a tremendous blessing it is to recognize that everything we have in our privileged lives (I mean, honestly, if we are reading and writing reviews on Amazon from our phone or laptops with instant global connection for books we can have in our hands and read that very day, we are privileged, indeed) is the Lord's, and that we have the honor of being his delivery men and women. It really is the greatest work on earth.