Five Months Later
I see my last blog entry was March 21, five months ago. Well, Rip Van Winkle slept for 25 years, so my five month snooze was a mere power nap.
I remember a couple of years ago, a student asking me to recommend a book for devotional reading and I didn’t know what to say, for I am not a reader of devotional books. After a few moments of thought I recommended Lewis’ Mere Christianity , a book I have been going back to my whole life, a book that continues to surprise, inform, challenge and delight me. I also recommended Philip Yancey’s What’s So Amazing about Grace . And I might have said the Psalms, a book that has been a steady presence in my life for most of my 69 years.
Lately, I have been re-reading Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, the best novel of the decade in my opinion, and it has occurred to me that the book makes for wonderful devotional reading. (Yes! A novel for devotional reading.) If the purpose of a devotional reading is to bring about reflection on matters of faith, to