So Much I See . . .

I have not really lived up to my resolution to blog twice a week this year. The funny thing is that my mind is constantly mulling over blog post topics. I see a provocative bumper sticker and potential topic bursts onto the horizon of my thinking. I hear a sermon and am motivated to write out my thoughts. I read a book (I'm at nine so far this year) and "plan" to write a book review on the blog. I counsel someone at church and that leads to a related topic that would be wonderful to post about. On and on it goes . . .

However, it is obvious that I haven't followed through (much) on those thoughts. As I sit here in front of my computer screen in my office at Village Bible Church, I tell myself it's because I'm so busy with work, school, marriage, baby classes, parties, dishes, laundry, etc. Those things are all true, and I am busy, but that doesn't mean I couldn't make time for a simple blog post two or three times a week.

So this post is mainly just me posting my frustrations with my laziness.

I think this post has been percolating for a while, but a book I started a few days ago has really been the impetus for this post. It's called Gilead. I think I first heard about it from John Piper, and then he posted about it again two weeks ago. I bought it with a Borders gift card and realized that it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005.

Anyway, the book is about a dying preacher in Iowa writing down his memories (some of which are so random that you have to work hard to remember that this is not a real memoir - it is fiction) for his young son to read long after he is gone.

It is good.

It is thought-provoking.

Read it.