Speaking of symmetrical book stacking (yesterday's comments), one of our upcoming childproofing projects will be shortening some of our book stacks to make them less precarious. Books are one of those things (like garbage cans and underwear drawers) where you can tell a lot about a person in a short span of time. Here are some titles at the top of my current stacks:1. Shepherding a Child's Heart
2. Embracing Fear
3. Adopting a Toddler
4. Oven Manual (open to 'Cleaning')
5. Waking the Dead
6. The Dance of Attachment
7. Saint Julian
8. Bible (open to Romans)
9. How to Be Your Own Selfish Pig
10. Hymnal (open to 'Be Still My Soul')
11. Enneagram Personality Type Descriptions
12. Thesaurus (open to 'fluke')
13. God Calling
14. Please Understand Me
15. Eva's future lifebook
What's at the top of your stack? Any must-reads I should add to mine for 2008?
12 comments:
I love the Yadda Yadda series and Lisa Whelchel's books are great for parenting and mommies.
"Love and Respect" by Emerson Eggerichs. A simple, yet powerful message for any married couple. I'm in the middle of it and I might even classify it a "must read." It's been an answer to prayer for me.
Running Scared, by Ed Welch
On fear and worry and I'm only 1/3 of the way through it, but it is life changing.
Enneagram personality type descriptions? Hmm... :)
Top of my reading list these days is Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle. A good friend recommended it to me again and again (and again and again), and I finally listened to her. :) Boy, am I glad I did.
PS. All about the stacking of books. Especially by bedsides.
Hmm... Someone else who knows what Enneagram is, has an unnamed good friend who's harped on 'Walking on Water', AND is a symmetrical beside book stacker. Sounds veeeerrrry familiar, oh sneaky anonymous commenter. ;-) Fun to hear from you!
P.S. If my guess is right, it's time for shots - Ed and I made an appointment tonight. Let's talk soon!
Coffeegirl - Ed Welch has another book about people being big and God being small. Always meant to read it... Maybe he's someone I need to get into - thanks!
"Kitchen table wisdom" written by a docter who is re-examining the scientific, sterile objectivity that american med students learn. She advocates "generous listening" and an understanding that you cannot work with people who are experiencing loss/ grief without being untouched by it yourself- she is eloquent and fascinating to me since i am in healthcare weekly- today a beautiful man told me the exact details of his wife's passing with huge tears dripping off his chin... "mommy, mommy, wake up now.... she was ice cold..." i tried hard to listen generously, and just stayed with him in his story, and held his hand.
My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers.
Ooh - 'Utmost' - good one; yes, that's kept in the perpetual stack. :-)
I just finished Bruchko, by Bruce Olson. For those unfamiliar it is a true tale of God's glory in a young mans life as he feels God's calling him to a unreached people in So America. It is a must read for the 12 and older crowd. It is such a good example of how God can use anyone with out college training or familiarity of language to show others Jesus, and he did it in a way that didn't ruin the tribes culture. I walked away just basking in the fact that God is truly amazing.
Ann- God bless you. I can't think of anyone better who could hold another's hand with so much compassion.
I "read" in the car by listening to podcasts:
1. History 132 - United States 1866-present (a history course from the University of Alaska)
2. Animal behavior
3. Creation/Evolution - the debate
4. Church of the Open Door sermons (Dave Johnson is in the beatitudes - check it out!)
5. This American Life
6. The New Yorker Fiction - short stories
"Shepherding a Child's Heart" is also a favorite book of mine. Another that has been useful with my willful little 3 year old, "The New Strong Willed Child" and "Your Three Year Old: Friend or Enemy" Perhaps you will not need these for your little girl.
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