Post One: Literature!

Like many of you, my earliest memories of literature are the children's books that were read to me as a child. While there aren't many I remember, I do recall the big green book with the little boy and the huge tree. Some of you may know what I am talking about; the boy talks to an old man and there are amny stories about that one tree. At this point my memory isn't good enough to know what the moral of that story was, but whenever I see the lime green book in a library or bookstore I am brought back to my younger years. Of course, there were some other classic books like Dr. Suess and The Frog and the Toad.

Some of my most recent memories of literature are the books I read throughout this past summer. For some reason I had a lot of time on my hands and decided to fill it with reading, which is not how I usually decide to spend my spare time. I'm so glad I decided to pick up books that summer; I realized how much fun it is to read (and finish) a really good book. I read five or six books in those four months, which is a record for me! My favorite one is a tie between A Time to Embrace by Karen Kinsgbury, Between Sundays by Karen Kingsbury, and Crazy Love by Francis Chan. There was also a book that I absolutely hated but read through the entire thing anyway. I couldn't even tell you the name of it, but I think the plot was just horrible.

The most significant literary text I have read comes from a very small book called Safe People by Cloud and Townsend. It was short but very life changing for me. This book has helped me to become a better person and ambassador for Christ. There are other great books I have read, but I won't get into that! Literature is important because it is a way of mass communicating with the world. If you have something to say to billions of people, than writing a book is the way to do it. The only way literature may be insignificant is that it will one day parish. I think the only book that will be in Heaven is the Bible; we won't have commentaries to help us understand it, or those Dummies books to teach us how to create blogs or learn a language. It will be insignificant compared to the glory of God that we will be experiencing. Other than that, I think literature is a wonderful thing and God even uses it to communicate to the world the message of the cross.