I am listening Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert on a Book on CD, since I have come to realize why S wouldn't read books. There just isn't enough time in the day to do work, and school work, and house work, and this, and that, and read a book. So I'm taking S's view on reading books and I have started listening to them, yes I know, it's the feel of the book in your hand. I will still read books, but just not as many. Anyways, I have started to listen to Eat, Pray, Love with mom and learned that it will be coming out in theaters August 13th, a day before I get home from camp! I can't wait, and have seen the trailer multiple times!!
"What is a steaming cup of coffee that is left stranded on the counter? Within minutes it is nothing but a cold, orphaned beverage. A cup of coffee isn't experienced and enjoyed until you participate with it. You don't go to Starbucks look at coffee, to admire its deep hue, and to comment on its robust appearance. You go to Starbucks to drink it in, to participate in the experience of great coffee.
The same is true of spirituality, of course. You can read a book about prayer or worship. The words might inspire you, even challenge you. The ideas might intrigue you to the extent that you invest time in thinking about a particular spiritual discipline. But if you don't go ahead and pray or worship, the words written about these subjects are nothing more than dry ink. They are lifeless symbols of language that describe a spiritual experience that is impotent and useless until you choose to participate in it."- The Gospel According to Starbucks by Leonard Sweet
I've been reading this book daily, and it's very good. I've been filled with quotes, and have started a book filled with these quotes. I just read the above this afternoon after I was lathered up in suntan lotion and was sitting out on an old sheet out in the sun/shade (I can't deal with another sun burn this early in the season!). Since starting this book Sweet has made me question what I believe in. I know I believe in God, Jesus, The Trinity, The Church, and the beliefs of UCC, but where in my belief is EPIC (Experience, Participation, Image-rich, Connection)? Sweet has since moved me to re-start reading the Bible daily (a goal that I've started last year). I've also realized that I need to live my life on an EPIC scale, and not just a normal scale. Sweet does a wonderful job of combining church with Starbucks, two of my favorite subjects.
I chose this book at random, I was making my Amazon Widget for my Starbucks Fettish post. I figured if I'm going to reccomend to my reader's to read this, then I might as well read it! Although I have yet to finish The Gospel According to Starbucks, it is a must read and I highly recommend it to either Christians or to Starbucks lovers, or to both!
So yesterday I spent my day helping out my library at the annual book/bake sale. I spent my day watching the bounce house, out in the sun. From 8:00am - 2:40pm I was sitting in front of the bounce house reading my book (Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead). Okay, so when I say the book Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead (the one which comes out on the 18th) the library copy came in Thursday, so I was able to read it all day Saturday (great!). So my sunburn is in a triangle shape since, I was wearing a blue tee-shirt with a "v cut" on my back. I have a red sun burn on my back in the shape of a v, it's really cool. Well it does hurt, but I need to get at least one sun burn a year, and all in all it was totally worth it, since my library made a little over $1,200!! Which is amazing!!! To see how much support we got yesterday makes me realize that there is no way that our town will close/combine us without a fight!!!
Last night I was talking to my friend over AIM, and she reads a little, but not as much as I do, and I love reading, but then something happened, see last summer she said that reading was a waste of the time for the summer months, but last night she asked me for some good summer reads, and well I have read a ton, that she would like. I told her to check out my We-Read bookshelf on Facebook, give me the title of the book, and I’ll tell her if it was good. I ended up giving her around 15 books for the summer, all good books, and I think people should get more involved with reading. I’m currently reading Cindy Ella by Robin Palmer, but I also have three books on order from Border’s that is somewhere in Ohio, that I’ll be donating to my Small New Little Library. I’ve read two out of the three, and the third is the continuation of the series. I read the first two last summers at my old library. They were quick summer reads. The series is called Death By. There are currently three in the series; Death by Bikini, Death by Latte, and Death by Denim. They are a mystery series, but they are a good quick summer read. I posted some books that I’ve read that you can find on Amazon
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by Elizabeth Gilbert on a Book on CD, since I have come to realize why S wouldn't read books. There just isn't enough time in the day to do work, and school work, and house work, and this, and that, and read a book. So I'm taking S's view on reading books and I have started listening to them, yes I know, it's the feel of the book in your hand. I will still read books, but just not as many. Anyways, I have started to listen to Eat, Pray, Love
with mom and learned that it will be coming out in theaters August 13th, a day before I get home from camp! I can't wait, and have seen the trailer multiple times!!
reading my book (
). Okay, so when I say the book Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead (the one which comes out on the 18th) the library copy came in Thursday, so I was able to read it all day Saturday (great!). So my sunburn is in a triangle shape since, I was wearing a blue tee-shirt with a "v cut" on my back. I have a red sun burn on my back in the shape of a v, it's really cool. Well it does hurt, but I need to get at least one sun burn a year, and all in all it was totally worth it, since my library made a little over $1,200!! Which is amazing!!! To see how much support we got yesterday makes me realize that there is no way that our town will close/combine us without a fight!!!
