Reading List: Big thanks to all contributors !!!!

Wild Eagle

I just want to appreciate your work. Thank you for sharing your reading list with other people! It really helps me to go through the list and study already researched topics. 

Here is an example of recent contributors:

 

By the way, I tried to study Historical Theology list by Mark Barnes. His bar is way too high for me.... One day i will get there  I found out that I have none of those books are in my library , even though I have a large library (3,500 books, without perseus collection).  You are motivating me to expand further . (This is not a criticism, but a complemet of your good library)

PS: Currently I am reading Atonement, well done NB Mick

Milford Charles Murray

Peace, Dear Brother!                              I -- for one! -- appreciate your post!                 Although I'm old and retired I find that there isn't nearly enough time in each day to get done what I want do, so I need to set priorities...

                  Your post reminds me that I need to raise some of the available Logos Reading Lists on my priority list; for I also truly appreciate some of the "labour of love" our brothers and sisters have done for us.                             

                                                                                 Thanks for the reminder, eh???               *smile*

          and ...    Good News, Brother when it comes to our usage of time ....

a little poem on that point ...

Lord I Have Time

By Michel Quoist

I've been out, Lord,
Outside people were going out.
They were going,
They were coming,
They were walking,
They were rushing.

Motor bikes were rushing by,
Cars were rushing by,
Trucks were rushing by.
The street was rushing,
The city was rushing,
The whole world was rushing.

They were rushing so as not to lose time.
They were rushing after time to catch up with time,
to gain time.
Goodbye sir, excuse me, I haven't time.
I'll come back, I can't wait, I haven't time.

I'd like to help you, but I haven't time.
I can't accept, for lack of time.
I can't reflect, read, I'm snowed under, I haven't time.

The child - he's playing,
he hasn't time at the moment....later on...
The schoolboy - he's got his homework,
he hasn't time...later on...
The student - he's got his lectures, and such a lot of work,
he hasn't time...later on...
The young man - he's playing sport,
he hasn't time...later on...
The married man - he has his house to run,
he hasn't time...and later on...
The father - he has his children,
he hasn't time...and later on...
The grandparents - they have their grandchildren,
they haven't time...later on...
They're sick! They have their cares,
they haven't time...later...
They're dying, they have...
Too late! They haven't any more time!
That's how they're all rushing after time, Lord.

They pass by on earth, always rushing, hurrying,
jostling, weighed down, snowed under, nearly demented.
And they never get there, there's not enough time.
Despite all their efforts, there's never enough time.

Lord, you must have made a mistake somewhere.
There's been a tremendous oversight.
The hours are too short, the days are too short,
lives are too short.

You, who are outside of time,
You smile, Lord, to see us struggle with it.
And you know what You are doing.
You don't make mistakes when You allot time to men.
You give to each one the time to do what You want him to do.

But is it wrong to lose time, to waste time, to kill time,
For time is Your gift to us -
But a perishable gift, a gift that doesn't keep.
Lord, I have time
I have all my time,
All the time You gave me,
The years of my life,
The days of my years,
They are all mine. Mine to fill up calmly, peacefully,
But to fill up completely, right to the brim -
To offer to You, that of their stale water
You may make a generous wine, as once at Cana for a
human wedding feast.

I don't ask this evening Lord,
for time to do this or that.
I ask for the grace to do conscientiously,
in the time that You gave me,
the thing that You want me to do.