Words

I've been tagged by my fiancée, Andrea, with a word meme. Apparently this is some version of those delightful little word-assoctiona icebreaker games where people who don't know each other (and don't really want to) sit uncomfortably in a circle and pretend that the third or fourth thing that came into their heads at the mention of a certain word was actually the first response they thought of. This promises to be a more enjoyable version, I hope.

At any rate, here are the words with which I've been tagged, and my responses:

WEDDING: Andrea; church; lots of planning still to do; ghastly formalwear

BOOK: Library; old friends; learning; too much money spent on Amazon

BREAD: Hot crusty goodness; whole-wheat; Panera

NAP: The thing I wish I could get more of; Rip van Winkle; Sunday afternoons; why don't they furnish cubicles with beds?

I'm afraid thinking about bread and naps has made me too sleepy to think of who else to tag. Oh, well. If you're reading this and you have a blog, consider yourself tagged.

One Book...

Last week I saw a book meme on Gideon Strauss' blog, and wondered if it would make it around to me. Looks like it has--I've been tagged byThabiti Anyabwile.

1. One book that changed your life: Grace Unknown: The Heart of Reformed Theology, R.C. Sproul. Credit for this one goes to my dad, who lent me the book when I asked him as a teenager what this "Reformed" thing that I'd been hearing about meant.

2. One book that you’ve read more than once: 1984, George Orwell

3. One book I’d want on a desert island: The biggest collection of Spurgeon's sermons available

4. One book that made me laugh: Right Behind, Nathan Wilson

5. One book that made me cry: A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis

6. One book that you wish had been written: On Baptism, by Polycarp (a disciple of the Apostle John)--in which he explicitly settles the question of whether the church under and immediately following the Apostles baptized infants or not

7. One book you wish had never been written: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes

8. One book that you are currently reading: The Reformation: A History, Diarmid McCullough

9. One book that you’ve been meaning to read: Biblical Theology, Geerhardus Vos. Own it, read the first few chapters last summer, never finished it.

Now I tag...Emily O'Neal, Kyle Newcomer, and John Letoto.

Meme

Time for a meme:

Go into your archive.
Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
-->"High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing " - From "The Windhover", September 13, 2004.