Terribly Enjoyable

Hey guys. I am going to be in Pre-AP English III next year which means I was assigned summer reading. Woohoo! 4 Books...here they are:

1. Animal Farm
2. A Raisin in the Sun
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. The Great Gatsby

As of right now I have finished the first two on my list. I am reading F. 451 now. The first two books were okay. I understood most of the symbolism and deep themes but there were a few crucial underlying points in the novels that I'm pretty sure I totally missed out on. The one I'm reading now is really good. There are some really life changing paragraphs in it. I just love it. It's hard for me to believe that I'm actually enjoying this summer torture. I thought that I would copy one of the sentences that hit me. I hope this isn't against the law.

• She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it had to tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

So...I was thinking about how much I liked the intensity of this book when BAMMM- out of nowhere God spoke to me. Jessie, WHY are you so excited about this one fiction novel??? Why don't you put this much passion and emphasis into my Word? The guideline for your life.

It's true. I'm not near as excited about reading the word of God as I am a novel that will fade away. Conviction: it's sad & shameful, yet beautiful at the same time. A break-through. Thank you Lord for showing me what is most important in my life.