I was a little convicted when Gregg talked about having several half read books in his sermon Sunday. I admit, my bookshelf is full of them. Saturday I was reading "When I Don't Desire God" by John Piper. He wrote:
"Suppose you read slowly like I do - maybe about the same speed that you speak - 200 words a minute. If you read fifteen minutes a day for one year (say just before supper, or just before bed), you will read 5,475 minutes in the year. Multiply that by 200 words a minute, and you get 1,095,000 words that you would read in a year. Now an average serious book might have about 360 words per page. So you would have read 3,041 pages in one year. That's ten very substantial books. All in fifteen minutes a day." (page 129)
That gave me the encouragement to pick up my half read books and start reading them. By this time next year they will be finished!
2 comments:
I'm with ya. I asked for a bunch of books for Christmas last year, and with Christmas just around the corner again, I was ashamed to realize that I've only finished one of them. However, I have almost finished the Spa Girls series... I didn't get those for Christmas but I've finished 2 of the 3 books in the series! (I'd have finished the 3rd too if I'd remember to borrow it from LB). And after only 2 years of reading through it (needing time to ponder each chapter before moving on), I am 1 chapter away from completing the Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer.
Sorry... this has almost become my own blog post...
Kelly, you should start a book club. Not like Oprah, but like yourself. :)
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