Would you go to such extremes??

I have 6 Bibles of various sizes, colors, and versions sitting in my room... not to mention the immediate availability at my finger tips through my itouch and my mac.

I wonder if the ease with which we have access to God's Word is the excuse we use to treat our Bibles with less care and attention than we often give our shoes?!?

Fayad's lives in a country where Christianity is punishable by death. He said he had little privacy and there was no way for him to read God’s Word. Some Christian friends decided to purchase small memory cards for Fayad’s cell phone and fill them with Christian music and the Bible. Fayad proclaimed, “I can use the memory card and headphones, and if ever I get in a dangerous situation I can just swallow the memory card.”

This puts my 5 minutes before work or before bed to shame.

Would I risk death to read my Bible? Would you? How far are you willing to go to read God's Word?

I face no risks, today, to read God's Word. So, encouraged by the people like Fayad, I will joyfully adore the Word God has given to me, TODAY!

Paper Romance

This

is what my

Happy

is

made of.

What's your's?

Seek Truth

Do we really?

So often in out post-modern relativistic thinking we throw the word truth around like potato chips - everyone can choose their own flavor. That isn't Truth - Webster agrees with me.

Just the other day,

a little old lady told me how we should

take a little bit of what eveyone believes

and then we'll be in the best state of mind and heart.

Honestly that sounds lazy and confusing.

What do you think a judge and jury would have to say to that???

"Well, your Honor, I'm just telling you a little bit of everyone's story,

and that will be my truth."

Don't settle for uncertainty and unfounded assumptions.
Today... seek Truth!

Rain

This is how I feel today...

...it needs no further explanation.

Simple Pontification

Sometimes... infact, I think most of the time... too many words are used to say too litte, and the most encouraging and thought provoking things are said in too few.

Interesting
how
those
are
the
ones
we
wish
would
last
longer.

Christmas Morning

"The Adoration of the Wise Men"

by

Cecil F. Alexander

"Know ye not that lowly baby

Was the bright and morning star,

He who came to light the Gentiles,

And the darken'd Isles afar?

And we too may seek His cradle,

There our hearts' best treasures bring,

Love, and Faith, and true devotion,

For our Savior, God, and King."

Rearranging Books

Someone recently told me that rearranging books is very therapeutic. I wonder at this logic, since it seems to take me forever to move my books. Once I have them a certain way, I leave them like that... for years! The more I know about the authors, the more fun I have puting them on the shelf. Dickens goes next to Hawthorne - But I think that they would fight so I might let alphebatizing slide and let Hemingway mediate. Can you imaging a fight between Dickens and Hawthorne being refereed by Hemingway? Ridiculous. Hemingway would have them wrestling before a bell could toll. Whitman would probably have to come in and calm everyone down by talking about leaves and grass. Or I could just let Louisa May Alcott distract everyone with her tales of long, fatal love chases. (Thats why I keep the female authors on a seperate shelf - Too racey and distracting for the likes of the Old Man at sea and too improprietous at the House of Seven Gables.) However, I keep Grace Livingston Hill with the ladies, because the men would make fun of her for writing the same book with different settings 32 times. They all agree upon my 'special' collection having a shelf of their own; Lewis, MacDonald, Chesterton, and Sheldon - to name a few.

I'm not quite sure how therapeutic this type of arranging is, all I know is that my books need dusting!