The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect.
We should affirm the great value of reading just for the fun of it. . . . In my experience, Christians are strangely reluctant to take this advice. We tend to be earnest people, always striving for self-improvement, and can be suspicious of mere recreation. But God doesn__ just create, he takes delight in his creation, and expects us to delight in it too; and since he has given us the desire to make things ourselves__as allowed us to be __ub-creators,_ as J. R. R. Tolkien says--we may rightly take delight in the things that we (and others) make. Reading for the sheer delight of it__eading at whim__s therefore one of the most important kinds of reading there is.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
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We should affirm the great value of reading just for the fun of it. . . . In my experience, Christians are strangely reluctant to take this advice. We tend to be earnest people, always striving for self-improvement, and can be suspicious of mere recreation. But God doesn__ just create, he takes delight in his creation, and expects us to delight in it too; and since he has given us the desire to make things ourselves__as allowed us to be __ub-creators,_ as J. R. R. Tolkien says--we may rightly take delight in the things that we (and others) make. Reading for the sheer delight of it__eading at whim__s therefore one of the most important kinds of reading there is.
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