Creepy Dream

A few days ago I had a very creepy dream... hopefully not a sign of things to come. I dreamt I was at work and was on break, reading The 5000 Year Leap. A police officer was walking around the premises and glanced over my shoulder at what I was reading. He leaned forward to get a closer look at a particular portion and said, "Oh my, this is hate speech. You can't be reading and spreading this." and pulled the book from my hands. I said, "You can't do that!" but he then grabbed my bag and started riffling through the contents. I stepped toward him and said, "Hey! You have no right to do that!" and he calmly said to me, "Oh, I can't?" as he continued his search for supposed "hate" material. I was so in shock that this was happening that I just stood there, speechless.

And thus ended my dream. Creepy.

2008 Reading List

Over the course of 2008 I read the following books (from first to last):

John Williams: Messenger of Peace, by Janet and Geoff Benge
An Inconvenient Book (audio), by Glenn Beck
The Pursuit of God, by A.W. Tozer
The Case for Christ, by Lee Strobel
American Heroes (audio), by Oliver North
Prince Caspian, by C.S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis
The Last Battle, by C.S. Lewis
The New Strong Willed Child, by Dr. James Dobson
Against All Odds: My Story, by Chuck Norris
Rediscovering God In America, by Newt Gingrich
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? by Richard Maybury
Abraham Lincoln--The Writer, by Harold Holzer
The Christmas Sweater, by Glenn Beck

I read more books in 2008 than in at least the last three years before combined. I had always wanted to get back into reading, but for some reason could never seem to finish a book. I had the hardest time for a few years reading anthing at all. I would start a book and spend ten minutes on one single page! My eyes would just dart all over the page and I could not focus long enough to read anything. But God decided to give me back reading in early 2008... THANK YOU!!! I have always loved reading and I am so glad to be able to enjoy it again. This year I am going to read even more than last year... and I am so excited about it!

Sweet Dreams

Life is good. Riley went down easy around 9:15 and Hannah and I got some time to be together before she fell asleep. I held her and we talked about life, maturity, children, and Heaven. Now I am downstairs sipping my Sweet Dreams chamomile & mint tea while lapping up the sweet words of our nation's founding fathers and the philosophers who inspired them. Ahhhhhh... life is good :-).