FROGLEGS

Having had a reasonable amount of time to read this summer has given me a bit of time to get through a couple of books.

The best one, by far, is a book by Philip Yancey (one of my favourite authors) called Soul Survivor. It is a book that chronicles his journey of faith from being brought up in a legalistic racist southern fundamentalist church, rejecting his faith in his late teens as a result of what he had seen and experienced of Christianity in his childhood and then a slow cautious journey back to Jesus in his 20’s.

In the book, he profiles various authors and public figures that helped gave him hope of a “life enhancing” faith instead of a “life contricting” faith. The people mentioned in the book include: G.K. Chesterton, Feodor Dostoevsky, Shusaku Endo, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Donne.

As a result of this book, I am going to try and read some books by these guys during this year. I got to read snippets of their writing in this book and really liked what i saw. I’ve even set up a wishlist on Amazon.co.uk with the books I would like to read. Check it out if you are feeling generous! Just click on the “wishlist” link and then do a search for my username, “submision@terra.es”.

Jim and Mark have arrived in good spirits. It is great to have the boyz around again. We are all using Mac laptops at the moment on Jesús’s wireless network. It is somewhat like a commercial for Apple…

I have entered another dimension of the digital age today… Jesús has let me borrow his wireless networking card while he is away in the US and Heather and I are house sitting for him. I am entering this blog sitting downstairs on the couch!!! This is fantastic. Will I ever be able to go back???

A few days doing pretty much nothing except hanging out with friends can do a guy a lot of good.

We’ve been chilling with Jesús and Rachel at their house on the coast. We’ve seen two action movies, watched 4 episodes of CSI and just generally done a lot of nothing. I think it was just about what we needed. We are starting to feel a bit more rested and are thinking about what we should do with the rest of the summer.

We have planned a trip by car up to Sweden for some friends’ wedding, but we are not quite sure that is the best thing for us at this point. I have a LOAD of work to do from now until Sept. 1st and I don’t think it is very realistic to think that I will get it done if we are on the road between now and then. Lots of other factors, but at this point we are doubting whether or not we will head up north. Been praying about it and still not feeling it is the wisest thing to do…

Home again, Home again…. Jiggety Jig!

We are home after staying at a hotel last night. The ferry was about an hour late, I was tired and needed to sleep.

We got up this morning and had a leisurely drive home. Today was supposed to be the worst day of vacationer traffic of the year, but we saw very little. Made it home in less than 5 hours and found that we are having record high temperatures… It is 48 Celsius at the moment, can’t be asked to convert it to F, sorry!

We head to the beach tomorrow… Thank God!