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Death By Living: Life Is Meant To Be Spent (2013)

by N.D. Wilson(Favorite Author)

4.26 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0849920094 (ISBN13: 9780849920097)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Thomas Nelson

review 1: Yeah, wow, this book, where should I begin!? I think I'll have to read it at least one more time to give a really fair review, but let me say for now that I L-O-V-E this book! It is beautifully deep, and deeply beautiful. Here, Nate Wilson (son of Douglas Wilson) wants his readers to awaken to the fact that our lives are stories, and although we are not The Author, we are authors, and our choices will affect the continuation and end of the stories of our lives. The best lived life, is a life poured out in the service of others, that is how you write a great story. It took me some time to get into the flow of the book, and at first I couldn't really see the point of all the personal stories from Nate's life, but then I began to understand it, and I started loving all those ... morestories. No one can deny that Nate is an pro-elite-expert on painting vivid pictues with words, and one of the sections in the book that gripped me the most is when he describes how, as a little boy playing with a toy cowboy, he suddenly had his eyes opened to the existence of dust motes. His description of the bittersweet yearning after experiencing all that can be experienced in a moment is solid gold. I hope to read this again in the near future.
review 2: N.D. Wilson’s commentary on life (and death), Death by Living really needs no comment—other than that it should be read. It should be read quickly, slowly, all at once, and with many breaks between reading. This comment may seem paradoxical, but then so does Wilson’s book.His book is a story about stories; a look at the minuscule stories of each human being wrapped up into the Story of our Creator. In this story about stories, Wilson makes the reader feel diminutive and worthless, while at the same time making the reader feel loved and precious. He brings perspective to our stories, weaving together the fairy tale elements of good and evil, joy and sorrow, and the fact that our story is really not our own simply because our story is made possible by the Story, eclipsing our narratives while at the same time making them visible.  This book is a book about living well and dying well.  Death by Living. Death is living, because living means dying. Paradoxes left and right, but they seem to make sense while bringing utter confusion all at the same time. But Wilson gets it. Life is to be spent. "Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain - they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter." less

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