While browsing at Borders for a present for my lovely wife, I happened on a book by Jim Palmer: “Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God (and the unlikely people who help you)”.
Intrigued by the title (publishers tend to rework titles to entice our wandering eyes) but I did the random read test — open book to random page, read. It passed the random read test with flying colors. I also liked the two (yes, 2!) introductions, and two (yes, 2!) author bios. Jim Palmer is self-deprecating (a quality I appreciate in people) and willing to share with the reader the not-so-pretty details of his life — which has value in describing God’s grace, mercy and love for us. I read it in a few sittings, which is not normal for me. I usually have to re-read a book to remember what I have already read the last time I picked the book up. Another reason that I like the book is because of the Bible verse that is up in the right-hand corner of my blog:

Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”?
1 Corinthians 1:27-28, The Message

Divine nobodies make a big difference in the lives of the people who meet them–they love, instruct, guide, bind-up and encourage with the life God has planted in them–that’s what makes them divine, and because they know that it is God’s life in them that makes the difference (not their own life) that’s what makes them nobodies.
I want to be a divine nobody.