The End of Blue Like Jazz

It was really easy to get through Blue Like Jazz compared to some of the other books we've read.  Once I got past the first few chapters and started to feel a connection with Miller, I started to read the book out of pleasure instead of for homework.  I truly enjoyed how he wrapped up the end of his book with his theory on love and how we need so much more to be given to us and to be given by us.  I really liked his account of him and his friend Paul hanging out with the hippies in Oregon, where he could truly be himself.  I think to be yourself is an incredibly important part of whether we can truly love each other.  If we are always trying to impress or conform to a group, we can't jump totally in to the concept of love.  Love is always something that is both very hard and very easy to give.  I think it is most important that we try our best to give love to those that are harder to love because they are the ones who need it more.  I really agree with Miller on his views of who we should love, and I think his book really opens up a lot of good conversations that every Christian should talk about.