Books

I'm not much of a reader. I will pick up a book and thumb through it and maybe scan the first few pages and within those first few pages it is decided if I am going to continue with the book or lay it down. Writers have a harsh critic on their hands when it comes to me I guess. You have about ten pages to grab my attention and if I don't feel it, I move on!

However, I enjoy writing. I'm not too sure I could ever write a book, but I do love writing poetry, short stories, and blogs! =) My writing abilities and interest in writing was passed down to Kristina, but I must say she is far a better writer than I could ever dream of being. The way she says things, describes things, insinuates things...her writings grab my attention immediately.

Since she has this interest and talent in writing I have always used that as a tool to talk about life with her. The analogies are just too similar not to. When you are young the chapters are short and more of a starting point. They are more descriptive and full of information and each chapter ends with a cliffhanger to keep you holding out for something yet to come. As you enter your teenage years the chapters get long and hard to understand. The words seem to ramble and the reader feels that the author is just as confused but yet with the end of each chapter you just cannot wait to get to the next one. About the time you are ready to give up you get to the good stuff...adulthood! We spend our entire childhood and teenage years eagerly waiting for adulthood so that we can do our own thing without any rules to only wish that we could go back in time! Those chapters in the book start to show how we are shaped and molded. They show what we are made of! And, then as the book begins to really get juicy the chapters turn into our golden years! These chapters seem to reference the previous chapters. Every step that is taken, every decision that is made seems to be done so solely on what we learned before. And, then, finally, the day will come where our book ends. As the book is published it is handed to someone who reads it intently with a yearning in their heart to know who you truly were.

And, this is where my questions start? What will your book say? Are there things in there that you would not want anyone to read? What about your great-grandchildren; do your choices and actions today leave a good footprint for them to step into tomorrow? All of our lives are a book and at some point in time that book is going to be read. It is up to us what is written in it!

"For I alone am God!...there is none like me. Only I can tell you the future before it even happens. Everything I plan will come to pass..." Isaiah 46:9b-10 (NLT)