Last year I had set myself the goal of taking a walk every day. I did it fairly faithfully and always with a camera around my neck. It gave me time to think and it gave me opportunities to see. It was also a year of poetry, which surprised me continually. Who knew?
This year, I’ve hardly taken one walk per week and have taken very few photos. I set for myself different challenges, but realize now that I have missed the walking, the thinking, the poetry and the photos. There’s something that happens when you walk by yourself that you can’t manufacture in any other way. I’ve been biking, but it’s not the same (although I do enjoy it).
Just some musings for today.
As far as quotes from books I’m reading, here’s a little gem from The Confession of Augustine in Modern English:
“No enemy can destroy a man so thoroughly as the man’s own hate-feelings that created the enemy in the first place. No man can damage the enemy he persecutes so severely as he damages his own soul by the buildup of his inner hostility.
While I don’t have any quotes from the book Evidence Not Seen by Darlene Deibler Rose, I certainly recommend it. She spent four years in a Japanese prison camp in New Guinea during World War II. Reading something like this puts your own little trials into perspective. The camp commander was a cruel man, but Darlene gained his respect. When she got news that her husband had died in the men’s camp, she went to speak with the commander, Mr. Yamiji, and he extended his sympathies. She shared the gospel with him and he became so moved that he had to leave the room so she would not see his tears. It’s difficult to read about someone’s faith being tested so severely, and yet, it was encouraging to see all the ways in which the Lord was faithful to her even when all seemed lost.
I would love to hear what books you are reading.
I’ll probably delete this in the morning..
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