On Reading Well: How to Read a Book?

Source: Desiring God

A Meditation on C. S. Lewis’s Experiment in Criticism, pages 100–101

Would you attain an author’s sense?
   Or only what you see?
Perhaps your sight is beautiful,
   And sees more truth than he.
Or maybe not. How would you know,
   Since you are blind to his?
You only pass the test you wrote,
   And fail the author’s quiz.
Are you content with that? Just that?
   To see and not to find,
To make a window on the world
   A mirror of your mind?
How vain, how foolish this! How small!
   Do you not live by growth?
What then? An author’s sense, or yours?
   Will not the wise say, Both!

- John Piper -

Kinabalu Retreat (9th – 13th July 2013)

Unfailing Faithfulness of God Builds Faithfulness in the Elect
- Frank Hamer -

     

Psalm 8

For the director of music.

According to gittith. A psalm of David.

O LORD, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

 You have set your glory above the heavens.

From the lips of children and infants

you have ordained praise because of your enemies,

to silence the foe and the avenger.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

what is man that you are mindful of him,

the son of man that you care for him?

You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings

 and crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him ruler over the works of your hands;

you put everything under his feet:

all flocks and herds,

and the beasts of the field,

the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,

all that swim the paths of the seas.

O LORD, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!