I've been pondering what I am thankful for, which has brought me to thinking about the books that have shaped me.
Some of them no longer would I recommend, but they led me to where I am now. Which of course, is usually a state of bemused confusion. The following are books I would still recommend. Although now I am more deeply moved by well written fiction, these are from the days when fiction seemed like a waste of time to me. I don't know what has changed. Maybe I'm no longer so upset about wasting time?
Leanne Payne's books, "Real Presense" and "Listening Prayer"
Edith Schaeffer's "Common Sense Christian Living" and "The Hidden Art of Homemaking"
C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity", "The Great Divorce" and "The Inner Ring"
Walter Wangerin's "As For Me and My House"
"Finding God" and "Connecting" by Larry Crabb
"The Cleaver's Don't Live Here Anymore" by Laurie Hall
Dan Allender's "Bold Love"
And, I don't care how bad life gets, no one should ever be without a few stained curled paperback copies of "Calvin and Hobbes" - definitely a sign of a life well lived, and not a waste of anything.
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We've got every Calvin & Hobbes book there is... I think. Our kids (ages 8 & 4) can be found pouring over them, which we sometimes question given the nautiness of Calvin. We play our own version of Calvin Ball when we get bored, as well as talk about our own childhoods, before everything was in color. Ahhhh, simple pleasures.
I love the ones when Calvin and Susie are in a 'comic'. There are just too few of those.
I'm also a big fan of "Mutts".
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