I love holidays. I was thrilled to have yesterday off work and get to hang out at home doing all the things I never have time to do because I'm too busy for my own good.
However, I've decided that it would be better to work the fourth and get the fifth as a holiday. Now this didn't really apply to me this year because I didn't go see fireworks, but I remember from years gone by, the fifth nearly killed me. I was out so late the night before that I couldn't function the next day. Most people don't start their parties until late in the day on the fourth anyway, so I think the day off should be moved.
Even though I didn't go see any fireworks this year, I did get to hear them...long into the night...in my lovely neighborhood. I think all the precious people living around me took advantage of the opportunity to make gunshot-like sounds without actually getting arrested. I'm not sure when they were supposed to end...but I'm fairly certain they went on longer than that in my neck of the woods.
To celebrate the day (and the lack of ability to fall asleep that night) I decided to do something I've not done nearly enough lately: read fiction. I grew up on fiction, but lately I've not read much of it. About a month or two ago, I read a book called These Rugged Cliffs - written by the sister of one of my work buddies. It sort of got me going on fiction again. So this time I searched the bookcase for a book I've not read (there are several) and settled on a Lori Wick book. It's one of her older ones, but I never got around to reading it. It's called The Princess. I'm limiting myself to two chapters a night because if I don't, I'll end up staying up all night sometime finishing the book. Good grief.
But now the holiday has ended, work has resumed, and I gotta tell you - I'm pretty ready for a nap!
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I've read that book, THE PRINCESS. It is very good. I have been diving into Karen Kingsbury books recently. In fact, I've read more fiction in the past two weeks than I think I ever have.
This morning I was going to go to the library because I had run out. God nudged me and told me to try a nonfiction. I needed to read something about ministry and my walk with Him. I pulled off the shelf a book I bought a long time ago but never read, "The Lost Art of Disciple Making".
So here's to learning something and leaving fiction behind for a while!
Chris
Maybe we'll switch for a while. I read fiction exclusively during high school and college, but once my eyes were opened to nonfiction, I've read THAT almost exclusively. I've only read Karen once, but she was GOOD. (That was an all-nighter reading.)
Who wrote "The Lost Art of Disciple Making?"
The author is Leroy Eims. Yes, it is a book with a copyright of 1978, but Zondervan keeps printing it!
It has some really good insight. I post more later on my site.
Talk to you soon,
Chris
Hey there's nothing wrong with a copyright of 1978! My own copyright is from that year! ;)
I'll check your site soon!
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