On the couch

I haven’t thrown up yet today. This is a good day. I wasn’t too sure what would be the result of eating breakfast, so I stayed home from work. It’s turning out to be a very pleasant. I love it that it’s rained and blowed outside, while I’ve been on the couch with a rug inside. I’ve spent too much time surfing around the internet - so many good and some hilarious blogs out there and a life that is too short to read them all. But I’ve also had more time than usual to read my bible and pray, in that tremulous moment of waiting to see what would happen after the toast. I’ve lolled about watching a DVD. And I have made a start on one of my new books. I had a birthday recently and with some money that came my way I bought three books (well actually, I got some money, then I went on a spending spree, and I don’t know which I will allocate to that money yet):

When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming peer pressure, codependency and the fear of man – by Ed Welch

Relationships: A Mess Worth Making – by Time Lane and Paul Tripp

Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands: People in need of change helping people in need of change – by Paul Tripp

I haven’t read any books by these authors before, and have been wanting to. So I’ve started with the top one. I’m finding it slightly clunky to read, but the content is good. We’re all prone to the fear of man, more or less, so it’s helpful to see the many ways it can manifest itself (and how to counteract that with scripture - though I am not too far into that part of the book yet). Now I might go and try my hand at some writing, or maybe snooze.