Growing Up Catholic

Growing Up Catholic by Lott, Tim. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780979118838.

Tim Lott began to go through a self-transformation years ago. Little did he know that the quest for satisfaction in religion would be part of that satisfaction in his own approach towards a confidence that faith existed. He learned the hard way that there is more to a relationship with God than a once a week interlude. To this objective, the recurrent theme throughout GROWING UP CATHOLIC was that traditions and the way our ancestors practiced honoring God may not be good enough for us any longer. Struck by divorce and a calamity of events, the once ‘down and out’ Lott looked up and saw the figurative face of God reach out for him through the text of the Bible. Yes. In GROWING UP CATHOLIC: THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH, author Tim Lott divulges that his satisfaction in his own quest for truth correlated with his own need for knowing that faith was a vehicle for his own salvation aka determining his fate with where he stood with God. Maturing with the spirit literally before your eyes in this book, as Lott rationalizes his own faith and, then, the direction of his own faith in the face of doubt, (with GROWING UP CATHOLIC) he shows how radical his own filling-in-the-blanks can be on the road to utmost confidence in God. We learned through Lott how he used his own confidence in God to do without him for a while and like a once lost floating piece of paper, how the spirit floated back into his life, and how by his experiences and faith, he discovered a self- accountability by God’s word. It is as though Lott found that he needed a faith within himself first before he could fully devote his faith to God; which may be why the traditions of the Catholic religion was a turn off early on in Lott’s life. On the surface a book that airs the Catholic religions dirty laundry may appear self-serving, but after reading GROWING UP CATHOLIC, it proves to be just the opposite; as it is, instead, a compassionate outreach to those who are Catholics or those who grew up Catholic that may not have been able to put their finger on just what was missing from their experience. For that reason, GROWING UP CATHOLIC may have, even, Catholics more so GROWING UPWARD CATHOLIC than had they not read this book. The book GROWING UP CATHOLIC raises many valid questions, and it leaves the reader to do the answering (not Tim Lott). This book greatest strength is that it guides the reader towards self-discovery and onward towards a relationship with the Lord, and ‘all that’ is a gem worth having as a keepsake in your household or nearby on the church book shelf for when its congregation needs to be reminded where the strength of your faith came from. Its STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS were pointed and intriguing as and, to a generous extent, brings into application the many valid faith-guiding lamp-posts lined up in this literary inward look at what reads as a gut-wrenching experience any compassionate person can appreciate. Lott’s (book) GROWING UP CATHOLIC will achieve its goal, in due time: to simply help Catholics and Former Catholics build a bridge to a relationship with the Lord Christ almighty. No need to wait until something tragic happens in your life to be the one impetuous to strengthen your relationship with the Lord. Do it now! Readers will applaud Lott in tackling a tough subject: Religion versus faith; which is the mistaken foundation of seeking a relationship with the Lord?”