{"id":29101,"date":"2021-10-19T12:58:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T17:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29101"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:45:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:45:05","slug":"book-report-look-what-god-did-and-whose-job-is-it-anyway-by-patty-e-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/19\/book-report-look-what-god-did-and-whose-job-is-it-anyway-by-patty-e-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Look What God Did!<\/i> and <i>Whose Job Is It Anyway?<\/i> by Patty E. Thompson (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/lookwhatgoddid.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">In what might become a tradition for a couple of months here at Nogglestead, I have read these two book which I bought at an <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/09\/good-book-hunting-october-8-2021-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC Books book signing<\/a> not long after I bought them.  Nobody tell Billy Pearson (I am only at 25% of his books read after <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/24\/good-book-hunting-saturday-august-24-2019-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">two years<\/a>) or Julian Lynn (67% complete after <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/good-book-hunting-may-11-and-19-2019-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">two and a half years<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The first book, <em>Look What God Did!<\/em>, is a woman&#8217;s spiratual biography from a wild youth when she got off the farm in Mansfield and went to California in the early 1970s.  She married a musician, divorced a musician, stayed in the church, and ended up marrying a good guy and became a mother and later a leader in her church and in her child&#8217;s school.  She shares these lessons along with appropriate scripture lessons for each.<\/p>\n<p>It reminded me a bit of Joyce Meyer&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/28\/book-report-eat-the-cookie-buy-the-shoes-by-joyce-meyer-2010\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Eat the Cookie, Buy the Shoes<\/a><\/em> except without the polish of having done it a million times before.<\/p>\n<p>The author favors exclamation points.  A lot!  I mean, she&#8217;s got one right in the title of the book, and she uses them frequently.  Including a rare appearance of the triple-banger:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We boarded a boat behind the hotel that first morning and went out into the Sea of Galilee where we stopped out in the water to sing praise songs and listen to a devotional by one of the pastors.  What an incredible sense of awe settled over us&#8230;to know that our Lord Jesus had been right there with His own disciples!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She also uses quotes from a variety of translations, including a spot where she gives verses from three different translations in three subsequent paragraphs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said, &#8220;Be as shrewd as serpents and as innocent as doves.&#8221;  Matt. 10:16 (NIV)<\/p>\n<p>\tHe said, &#8220;God has not given us a spirite of timidity, but of power, and love, and discipline (self-control).&#8221;  II Tim. 1:7 (NASB)<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Love each other.  Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.&#8221;  John 13:34b (NLT)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will leave it to you to speculate, gentle reader, whether she is that much of a biblical scholar, whether she collected different verses on notecards as she came across them elsewhere and collected them here, or whether she has a side-by-side translations bible.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, a short, pleasant read.  Perhaps more targeted to women than promiscuous male readers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/whosejobisitanyway.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">She told me this book, her second book, or perhaps her first (but I read it second, and they do not have copyright dates inside to help me out here), dealt with the workplace and people who don&#8217;t think something is their job.  Which I thought I might relate to better since I&#8217;m a worker if not a woman, but this book has only one or two anecdotes that are new and instead recounts again her work in the women&#8217;s ministry in her church and becoming a parent organization leader in her child&#8217;s school&#8211;as well as a workplace-based anecdote where she offered to pray for an employer&#8217;s lost horses&#8211;that she told in <em>Look What God Did!<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So it was a bit of a repeat.  Although each chapter ends with a <em>Lessons learned<\/em> tidbit instead of Bible verses.  I suppose it would not have been as stark if I hadn&#8217;t read them back to back.<\/p>\n<p>Quick reads, anyway, and my purchase both supported a self-publishing author and my friends at ABC Books.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I get a little money if you click here and buy:<br \/>\n\t<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj00-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&#038;placement=B08886L67V&#038;asins=B08886L67V&#038;linkId=985b0e15895994c23878c9115cc318d6&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe>&nbsp;<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj00-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&#038;placement=B08NTYDHK2&#038;asins=B08NTYDHK2&#038;linkId=a271739770790060a3b33774ac51d9d2&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what might become a tradition for a couple of months here at Nogglestead, I have read these two book which I bought at an ABC Books book signing not long after I bought them. Nobody tell Billy Pearson (I am only at 25% of his books read after two years) or Julian Lynn (67% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29110,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29101\/revisions\/29110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}