{"id":259,"date":"2010-06-04T14:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/06\/what-im-reading-books-and-summer-reading-lists.html"},"modified":"2010-06-04T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:02:06","slug":"what-im-reading-books-and-summer-reading-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/06\/what-im-reading-books-and-summer-reading-lists.html","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading: Books and Summer Reading Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"images.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/113\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/images-thumb-118x118-14325.jpeg\" width=\"118\" height=\"118\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>My &#8220;summer reading list&#8221; is posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/women\/\" target=\"_blank\">her.meneutics<\/a>, along with the other contributers to that blog. You can check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/women\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In light of the brevity of this post, a quotation to consider:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Among the many desecrations visited upon the creation, the profanation of time ranks near the top, at least among North Americans. Time is the medium in which we do all our living. When time is desecrated, life is desecrated. The most conspicuous evidence of this desecration are hurry and procrastination: Hurry turns away from the gift of time in a compulsive grasping for abstractions that it can possess and control. Procrastination is distracted from the gift of time in a lazy inattentiveness to the life of obedience and adoration by which we enter the &#8216;fullness of time.&#8217; Whether by a hurried grasping or by a procrastinating inattention, time is violated. Genesis 1 is not in a hurry. And Genesis 1 does not procrastinate.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>from Eugene Peterson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Christ-Plays-Ten-Thousand-Places\/dp\/0802828752\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1275569151&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;summer reading list&#8221; is posted at her.meneutics, along with the other contributers to that blog. You can check it out here. In light of the brevity of this post, a quotation to consider: &#8220;Among the many desecrations visited upon the creation, the profanation of time ranks near the top, at least among North Americans.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-faith","category-what-im-reading"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What I&#039;m Reading: Books and Summer Reading Lists - Thin Places<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/06\/what-im-reading-books-and-summer-reading-lists.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What I&#039;m Reading: Books and Summer Reading Lists - Thin Places\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My &#8220;summer reading list&#8221; is posted at her.meneutics, along with the other contributers to that blog. 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