Book Review: Take Back Your Life

 

 

Title: Take Back Your Life

Author: Levi Lusko

Publisher: W Publishing Group

Publication Date: August 4, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5

According to the sub-title, Pastor  Lusko’s book is “a 40 day interactive journey to thinking right so you can live right”. That describes the book very well. It is written as a devotional with 40 days of 10 minute readings. Each chapter is prefaced with a Bible verse and interesting commentary from Lusko’s life. At the end of each chapter is his ‘Breathe, Thank and Live section” which are personal, interactive questions for meditative thought and prayer specifically focused on changing your life.

I’ve been reading this book as a mature Christian, but have found it to be refreshing and surprisingly freeing. For all of its apparent simplicity, it resonated with me in a deep way. It has reminded me of things I knew, but had become dry and dusty. I particularly like the short but pertinent prayers that precede the questions. Taking time to breathe and think through these, even writing in the small space provided, has caused more self-reflection that I’ve done in a while. (One minor nit-pick is that the space for answering questions could be larger, as I wanted to write more than the space allowed.) Do I sound vulnerable? That would be one outcome from one of the chapters: “freedom looks like vulnerability.” Indeed, one of the statements in that chapter shot an arrow straight to my heart saying: “don’t do work that is safe” just a day after I volunteered to take on a huge project that will stretch me greatly. This book, and the spirit / Spirit in which it was written, is having an effect. And that is what Lusko intended in the first place.

As Lusko says in his preface, “this experience isn’t about checking a box, it’s about changing your life.” Like much of life, you will get out of this what you put in. 

Great news: I have one free copy of this book to offer as a giveaway. Please leave a comment on this post, telling me why you'd like the free copy, before September 5 and I will select the winner randomly.

Disclosure (in accordance with the FTC’s 16 CFR, Part 255:  “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising”):  Many thanks to Propeller Consulting, LLC and HCCP for providing this prize for the giveaway and review.  Choice of winners and opinions are 100% my own and NOT influenced by monetary compensation.  I did receive a sample of the product in exchange for this review and post.

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