31 Days of Library Living {Day 16}: Required Reading

Fall Weekends. Is there anything better?
01) A nature-themed birthday party that I can't wait to tell you about this week (it included a craft idea that was inspired by a library book).
02) A date night with my husband.
03) The NASCAR race under the lights at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Two glorious days of perfect weather, surrounded by family and friends. After church, Sunday afternoon is filled with laundry, Carolina Panther's Football, making trays of lasagna and eggplant parmigiana, and restfully reading books from the library in the back yard. Here is today's inspiration, directly from our local library: 

Those who know me have to put up with my crush on Charles Haddon Spurgeon. He is fiery, feisty and his sermons are as relevant today as when he wrote them. I love the above passage of Spurgeon's sermon referring to this verse in 2 Timothy:

"The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments."—2 Timothy 4:13

The Apostle Paul was an avid reader. Before his conversion, he was Saul of Tarsus; well educated under the tutelage of Rabbi Gamaliel. After his road-side meeting with God on the road to Damascus, he continued his love of books, but counted the parchments (the Bible) as the most important.


You can find a great variety of Spurgeon's books at your local library, click here for more information.

I am encouraged by Paul's ~ and Spurgeon's ~ love of reading, and I think if they were alive today I would run into them often at the library. But I'm reminded that my only required reading (for me and my family) is the Bible. How happy am I that it is a book?

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xoxo Michele