Wild at Heart
You know one fascinating thing about John Eldredge’s books to me is that I rarely ever get more than 2 pages without having to stop. I finished reading Wild at Heart a little while after returning from the bike trip, my mom wanted to read it because she saw how much it touched me. My mom doesn’t read this blog (she seems to be the only person I know anymore who doesn’t 
) we talk about everything anyways so it’s not just a huge deal that she doesn’t read it here. Never the less she seems to be seeing a difference in me since I got back… which is good because she’s been encouraging the change. Like I said though she wanted to read it, figuring that I would take it with me when I move (which is a whole other story in itself) she went to rent it from the library, but they didn’t have it so she got what they did have The Way of the Wild Heart which is sort of a sequel to Wild at Heart and she didn’t want to read it until she read Wild at Heart so anyways I’ve now started reading The Way of the Wild Heart and just like when reading Wild at Heart I can’t get past more than a few paragraphs before I’ve got to stop. Stopping isn’t a bad thing in this situation… especially not with why I stop. You see I used to daydream all the time, seriously I used to spend 99% of my time daydreaming about… well everything. I used to design and invent truly awesome stuff all of which came from my spacing out while the world went about its business around me. When I’m reading through John’s books (we’re good friends now, I’ve spent enough time reading his stuff that we’re on a first name basis) I catch myself all the time stopping to look back and go… woah… I definitely don’t remember anything after that last paragraph… but it’s good, because I can envision practical ways that his words apply to my life…. which is something that I’ve not been able to do with anything that I’ve read, watched, or even written in a long time. It has also awoken a good many passions that I’ve let grow dormant over the years… well I guess I’m going to go back to reading now since I’ve not even made it through the introduction of the book yet