Yup. That it is, and I’m still trying to catch up. Reminds me of the little rabbit in “Alice In Wonderland” – “I’m late, I’m late for a very important date.” At least that’s part of what I get to feeling. But this heat is not when I want to be running around working up a sweat or stress level.
Glad it finally cooled down last night, but can’t wait for the heat wave to end. I kinda melt in the heat – like something just sucks all the energy out of me. Then once the energy is gone, it takes a while to get back up to speed.
Having a hard time finishing a book that I have been reading for the past two months (actually have read two or three other fiction books while trying to finish it). The “problem child” is a book on the Reformation and Protestantism for “Dummies”. I’m no “dummy”, but this is like a college history book. Not althgether boring, but very much full of information.
Jumps from country to country, and by so doing, is not linear (world-wide). Have decided that after I finish the book, it will have to be re-read just so I can put the “world” back together. Amazing stuff about the Reformations (yes, it seems that there was more than one) and world history. Never tied all those British, French, German, Italian, etc. royal families to church history before now. Even in college, the kings and queens were “secular” and they were just battles or wars.
Don’t ask me who the kings and queens were, ’cause to me that’s not the important thing. What I am seeing now is that how they viewed the “Word” is/was what’s important. Thanks to some of them, we have “IT” to read. Reading “IT” has made a major difference in how people have lived and died.
It was as a result of so many of those early “Reformers” that we have a country like America. From those reformation roots sprang “Religious Freedom” and the anti-slavery movement. We live in a land where you and I can write/tell others what we believe about God and not die for it. We can live our lives so that others see a difference, without the fear that we will be punished (even killed) because we believe the Word. Freedom costs everybody something – how much are you willing to pay?