books and THE book

lots of thoughts bouncing around in this head of mine. trying to make some connections, trying to create some articulation. i fasted today. it had been a while since i last embraced this spiritual discipline. it was good. still a lot of praying, thinking, discussing, and journaling to be done, but its been a good day. i have been learning a lot lately, it has been good. i am reading a few books right now. jesus for president by shane claiborne, the great emergence by phyllis tickle, rich christians in an age of hunger by ronald j. sider, and i just picked up the cloister walk by kathleen norris but i havent started it yet. its a lot of reading (obviously i don't have a job...yet), its good stuff. but i am realizing more of late its important to be staying in the word too. kind of why i bought the cloister walk...uh...yeah. i wanted to get down with my liturgical self and look into developing some good disciplines.

i was reading jesus for president the other day and shane was talking about creatively responding to Christ's message. and placed prominently placed in these steps for reimagining the world was reading the Bible. not a huge revelation or news flash there, but it struck me. we can be reading all these books about church movements and our roles as christians in this world we live in, but even more importantly is getting truth straight from the word. if we are looking for a creative response then that is huge. in my realization that being a christian is bigger than just being personally disciplined and "having devotions" every day i have lost sight of the simple truth that the Bible is still the most important book i can ever read, a good thing to remember as i seek God's wisdom.

in an uncharacteristic blog move driven in curiousity i want to know what "my blog readers" (aka you few friends and family out there) are reading. leave a comment. how is it? any revelations from it?