A list, then…

The most important book I read this year (third year of college):

• Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics by Oliver O’Donovan.

The most important book I read in second year:

• The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter.

The most important book I read in first year:

• Snorkelling and Diving in Oman (Arabian Heritage Guides) by Rod Salm and Robert Baldwin.

All three are fine reads.

Once I’m not studying it quite so hard, I’ll tell you some things I love.

And to my brothers and sisters who are plugging away with their study tonight before we arrive at Crazy Town tomorrow, I just have this to say:

Using half the ‘free money’ the government is giving families on FTB-A in December to actively support pregnant women and the new lives inside them.

HEY YOU! LOOK AT ALL MY BOOKMARKS. MY BOOKMARKS!! AREN’T THEY TEH BEST!!! LOLZ!!

Incorrect answer. My apologies.

I’m going to switch it back to how it was until I get a chance to shape it in my image after exams.

Possibly a little over-saturation, though.

PhotoFunia.

Many thanks to kottke.

This is essentially because when my bookmark feed items get linked to by other people, there’s no way for others to know that they’re mine. And we can’t have that.

Let me know if it’s better or worse.

And there are 16 hours of exams. All essays.

I obviously can’t speak to the fourth year subjects, which all sound excellent. But for me, these two have provoked a great deal of thinking and reflecting.

After exams, I’m going to really surf the web, something I haven’t done for ages. I’m going to link like crazy, from the end of every tube. And you, my faithful 80, will be the beneficiaries.

Very funny.

Ben: Sally wasn’t wrong. That’s amazing.

And I cried.

The binding is the best binding I have ever seen on a book.

The printing of the text is so disappointing, I returned it.

The problem was bleed-through, and it was quite severe. I have an NIV that has thinner pages but it is highly readable. This ESV was quite hard to read, mainly in sections of the Bible laid out like poetry.

I just couldn’t afford to spend the kind of money it cost (even on my Anglican book allowance) considering how hard it was to read.

Now I’m left with an open loop. I’m after a new ESV that will really last me, and I thought I had one, but who wants a Bible that’s hard to read?

That’s what it’s for.

Where on earth, other than from Christian wives, would you hear lines like this:

Sometimes when my hubby first gets home from work, I’ll have his favorite snack and a drink sitting by the computer w/ his favorite websites pulled up or I’ll have a bath run for him w/ soft music and a candle going to give him a little time to relax after his hard day!

Well, I have personally found doing good to my husband, is to have sex with him. That always cheers him up.

1.) speak well of him to others (both when he is present and when he is not)
2.) pack him a lunch (and include a tasty treat)
3.) tell him regularly that you are happy you married him
4.) tell his mother how wonderfully he treats you
5.) tell your mother how wonderfully he treats you
6.) forgive him in grace, even when he forgets things that are important to you
7.) regularly tell your kids the things you love about him

Maybe there are places where wives think and act like this, other than in Christian homes, but I can’t think of any.

This is deeply counter-cultural, absolutely bizarre, and brilliant.

I couldn’t work out how to tilt the view, until I accidentally tilted the iPhone and the whole image tilted. So sweet.

It’s just a shame I’m on the slowest iPhone carrier in the world.

I have these words blu-tacced to the bottom of my monitor, from the lips of the very first Christian leaders:

ἡμεῖς δὲ τῇ προσευχῇ καὶ τῇ διακονίᾳ τοῦ λόγου προσκαρτερήσομεν.

which means,

“But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” (Acts 6:4)

(The bold is what’s emphasised in the Greek.)

I’m going to do some praying right now.