Reading

I still laugh at myself when I think about the total 180 flip I've taken in my reading habits since high school.  I used to never read and now I'm reading a book a week (which isn't that much, but its major progress for me!  You don't pick up fast reading skills if you never read until you were 18!)  

I just finished my 4th book of the summer, Reimagining Spiritual Formation.  It was really good! It made me think a lot about how my faith should encompass every tiny bit of my life.  And I really liked how it explained service.  A lot of times the church takes a condescending approach, coming at a neighborhood like "you have needs, you do not know Jesus, and we are perfect so we will create a program to fix the lives of those beneath us."  But, instead of evaluating and creating we can look at our lives, the gifts and resources God has given us, and just start putting those into action.  Its a much more honest, open and relational approach.  

A quote from my next book in progress "Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion." - Thomas a Kempis