"...and the books were opened." Daniel 7:10

One of the things we had to go back to Nebraska to retrieve was the vast majority of my library. At the time that we moved we ran out of space in our trucks and had to leave a number of things at a relative’s house. The place we rented temporarily was also very small and couldn’t hold all of our things, so my library had to be sacrificed. I tried to convince my wife to just let my pile all my books around our room or in our bed or wherever, but she didn’t like the idea of sleeping with Luther and Calvin, so I took a few boxes of my favorites and left the rest behind. It was like leaving some of my best friends and not knowing when I would see them again.

They may all be stuffed in boxes, but at least their here with me now. If I think of something I really need to look at, I can always go digging for it.

I love how Winston Churchill put it:

“If you can not read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them — peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them be your acquaintances.”

-Winston Churchill