So Much to Read...
...so little time!
As anyone who's been hanging around the Beach will know, I've read more than my share of books on theology, Christian life, church matters and such over the past couple of years. From Lewis to Chesterton to Bonhoeffer to Miller to Bell to Piper to others, I haven't been lacking for books to read.
But I've run into a small problem.
I now am running into the issue of starting and not finishing.
I hate that.
I'm a quarter of the way in on Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain.
I've just started yet my third re-start of The Confessions of St. Augustine.
I'm a quarter of the way through on Gary Will's What Paul Meant.
And I've just started Bill Hybels' Holy Discontent (thanks to Ariel).
This, more than anything, speaks to my lack of focus in recent weeks, although He's kept me in the Word consistently, which is the more important thing. Yet I can't quite pin down why I've been jumping around from book to book lately without completing one. Honestly, I can't remember the last book I finished.
So here's to focus. Here's to knocking out one book at a time. Because I know He'll speak to me through these writers as well.
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4 Comments:
i have a similar approach to reading. bible all the time and other books depending on daily interest.
I went through this too and found a way to break this cycle. Everytime I get in the groove you've explained, I get a book outside of the Christian ghetto and read it, every last word. I've found that it makes me long for more of Him. I guess absence makes the heart grow fonder. I just finished "Caddy for Life" by Feinstein: great book about a pga caddy and his fight with ALS. I've also used "Luckiest Man" about Lou Gehrig, and of course, "The Tipping Point". All good and I had fun finding the Christian overtones in all of them.
Bottom line is, you are a quitter and need to be re-energized! ;-) lol
I'm guilty of that as well... I won't tell you how many books are on my night stand with bookmarks in different places.
I am determined to make it through Hybels' book right now. Then I am going to systematically hit the rest of my stack.
What I've described above 'tis a mere tip of the literary/theology iceberg...
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