Boy, is Lamentations a sad book! In one of the devotions in my Daily Walk Bible, it says “you can almost wring out the pages, so soaked are they with Jeremiah’s tears.” After all the guy has just spent years upon years warning his countrymen what is about to happen: the Babylonians are coming! And [...]
Read full post...I have hosted a book club on Monday nights for two years now. I rarely post about book club so I thought I would share what we are currently reading. We just started the Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs. It’s by an ethnically Jewish but very secular guy who decided he will [...]
Read full post...It’s time once again for The Big Read. This is Spartanburg county’s third year participating in the initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The book of choice this year is Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. You can pick up your free paperback copy at [...]
Read full post...My parents recently restored an antique secretary that belonged to my great great grandfather (I think that is right). Contained inside were dozens of books which had been passed down from generation to generation. These books were nearly a hundred years old. Among them were Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage and Charles Sheldon’s [...]
Read full post...Inspired by reading Peter Walsh’s Its All Too Much, I decluttered our bedroom. My first round produced 5 boxes and 3 30-gallon bags full of stuff I no longer use. Most of it was baby stuff that had made its way into our room after it was no longer needed in the nursery.
The 10 points [...]