Glenn Beck

is the most wonderfully inspirational man ive seen ever. go out and buy his book 'the Christmas Sweater'. if you cant, ask me and ill loan you my copy. his book is everything someone struggling needs to read, and i know very well the feeling of relief and wonder one will get after reading his work.

i got to see a live broadcast of his theater production. i was moved to outright weeping several times, as was he (and this wasnt his first performance). there was just so much feeling in his words alone as well as in his performance, and in the music selections (words cannot describe the emotions that oh so blessedly talented singer stirred in me)

he spoke so plainly, i couldnt help but automatically understand. his message is everything that someone who has lost all hope, all faith, needs to hear. when the credits began to roll i didnt want to leave, i just wanted to curl up in my chair and continue to cry. cry out my dispair, cry in rejoicing, in awe, in misery all at once. i thanked my mother for taking me several time, and it still isnt enough. as we walked to the car i started to cry again, because i couldnt get over the feeling that he left me with.

most of you know, im not an easy crier. but glenn had me weeping like a baby. at first it was just tears running down my face, then the shakey lip, and then i couldnt keep it in. it was just so overwhelming, that i wish i could take you guys back to see it. it was his last performance, and just watching him on that stage you could understand why. the emotional toll that telling this story takes on him, to go through that time after time after time, its amazing. i want to relive the moments in that theatre again and again. it was all so amazing, so awesome, in the original sense of the word.

i cried even as we walked to the car, i was so moved by him. and then i had to compose myself so i could go run to barnes and noble so i could by my mother and myself copies, because my aunt (her cousin) has our family copy. and at B+N there were hundreds of christmas books, so many copies of classics and new releases that i over looked the seven lonely copies of the christmas sweater. but i found them, and ive got one for my very own.

any one who has issues with their past they have yet to come to terms with, any one who has problems with their parents, please read this book. its the reason that this time of year is truly so celebrated. its about hope, redemption, atonement, loss, suffering, love, joy. most of all, love and joy. any one who has ever felt so hopelessly lost, so achingly far from home needs to read this book. please.

and now to sleep.
farewell my friends