It is 12:54 PM Sunday afternoon in the flow of existence. I ate some food with my wife when she got home from Covenant PCA. We are going to take a walk out at the Upper Macatawa Natural Area this afternoon. The sun is shining this afternoon and soon it will be dark and wet again. We are now in the month of November, it usually snows the month of November here in West Michigan. Winter comes early here by Lake Michigan.
I wanted to mention that the reason why I have so many books is that I was educated to be a gospel minister. I built my library to help me preach the Gospel of the Kingdom to elect sinners. Also I am a lover of books. As a Christian I always have sought to buy the best Christian books. Yesterday when I bought the book “Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew” by Jonathan T. Pennington that first thing I did is read the bibliography at the back of the book to see what I did not have in my library so as to ADD in the future.
When I was working I spent a lot of money on books. I would make a list of books I came across in my readings and go to GR to Eerdmans Book Store and buy the books on my list if they had them in stock. A lot of the books I bought over a 30 years span of time I am just getting the time to use. And sad to confess I won’t be able to use my preaching and teaching book collection because I am no longer an active member in the american evangelical movement. I am a hermit. No one wants to me to share my love of spiritual knowledge/wisdom/knowledge of the best Christian books.
I still buy good solid Christian books, but not like I use to because I am no longer working. Plus I am trying to mainly read my Bible and live a life of contemplative prayer.
I also started reading the kinds of books I read when I was young. I read now books like books on the life of Samuel Johnson. I now go to used book sales and buy secular literature. I now read all over the map.
When I was working 40 to 50 hours a week I had only had energy to read spiritual books. I had to read stuff that would enable me to teaching Adult Sunday School or books that fed me spiritually.
I have been outside the church walls going on five years. I lost my job a couple of years ago. Now I have all the time I want to read, write and contemplate. I rather be a teaching elder, but the Lord does not need me. I just want to be in the place where God has placed me. We have to be content with the will of God for our lives. It is foolish to find fault with God’s will.
Well I got to close to see when we are leaving for our walk in the woods.
music: Okkervil River “The Stand Ins”
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