The Journey of Desire (2)

I'm very slow at reading, since I haven't done it since english class but here's what I got on chapters 2:
so far the book has not got to the explaining part. Eldredge is explaining what people are doing with desire and how "unacquainted" (30) with desire we are. I ended and I thought dang he's about to start explaining how to get acquainted. But I'll continue next time.
um there were a lot of quotes I liked. Eldredge uses a lot of his own personal experiences as examples in his book which is what I like, but there are the pros and cons for that. I liked the one where he says "Each time he reached for a rung up the ladder, the rung broke, and he found himself back at the bottom" (20). After that why keep trying to back up? I also have other quotes (they're on my fb) but if you don't have an fb, one says "No man is an island" (26). Which is great because it just says that nobody stands alone. So yeah this chapter jumps around a bit with his ideas on how we're not using desire. But something came up while I was reading
So there's that one guy named Joel Osteen. He's the guy with the biggest church in America or something. Great. A lot of people say what he's saying is wrong. And i dunno if he's wrong or not. Cuz he could be right. He's just not telling everything that God is saying. This goes back to that section in Matthew about the good fruit and bad fruit. You have to watch out for false prophets. But anyway there's this quote "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when dreams come true, there is life and joy" (24). I mean that sounds like something Disney would kinda use, which I think that could be true, but then that means what Eldredge is trying to get at in this book is something very specific and we, as the readers, should still consider all things in the bible as a whole and just use this book as a section of our lives, not our whole life. I don't know if you get what I mean..like Joel Osteen writes books. That one that's like 7 ways to improve your life or something. Like that's great and all, but that's not how a Christian should completely live their life. So yeah that's just some thought...Maybe I should research this guy up to see. This is a pretty vague post so question me up