Monday, May 2, 2011

Wishing I had more time to read.

“My strong advice to you is to soak, soak, soak in philosophy and psychology, until you know more of these subjects than ever you need consciously to think. It is ignorance of these subjects on the part of ministers and workers that has brought our evangelical theology to ...such a sorry plight...The man who reads only the Bible does not, as a rule, know it or human life.” -- Oswald Chambers

All the people I admire most are well-read. They have brilliant, informed opinions, based on an eclectic mix of books that they have read. Rob Bell, Ron Martoia, my boss, most of my colleagues, my uncle, Terry Pratchett... I want to be like them!

Problem is that I am almost always so tired that the letters on the page start to swim before my eyes moments after I had started reading and then the book hits me in the nose and it's an hour later! What to do?

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