Readers Read

Do you enjoy reading?  I suspect you do, since you are reading my blog!  I have loved reading as long as I can remember.  Reading takes me all over the world, inside other people's minds and stretches my imagination.

Some of my best childhood memories are reading a huge stack of comic books in my tree house.  My friends and I all collected comic books and would swap out stacks at a time.  I could spend an entire Saturday or summer vacation day in the tree house with these books.

I had a hammock that stretched between two apple trees in my parents' backyard and that was a perfect place for reading paperback books.  I think I read every Grace Livingston Hill book she ever printed in that hammock during the Tween years when you want to learn about love, but don't yet want to talk about it.

I'm terrible about getting names and titles mixed up, so I don't dare try to name the books I loved the best, but there was one that was called something like "My Side of the Mountain" about a boy living in the forest for a year and chronicling his experiences.  It was so cool!  I read that book over and over until it literally just fell apart.  I would take the family dog, a German shepherd named Wolf, with me into the woods and pretend I was that boy all the time.  We would build shelters and look for berries and chop down paths with my brothers' boy scout machete and all that fun survival stuff.  I hope when kids watch the Survivor Guys on TV these days that it will encourage them to get outside and enjoy nature, too!  Somehow, being outside with no signs of urban areas just makes you feel close to God and that as long as you have Him, it's going to be alright.  I'm so grateful I had the freedom to roam the woods when I was a kid and that I developed a love for books early on.

Right now, I'm "into" Don Miller and am reading "Searching for God Knows What".  I'd recommend any of his books and anything by Francine Rivers or Terry Blackstock.

Get outside today and read!