If you got time to read, you got time to... As someone at church recently noted in our conversation together, it is very important to have an alert mind when reading books by writers such as Van til and Vos. But you see, the problem is that with three young children I have two chances to read during the day: early in the morning and late at night. Neither of these times are moments of particular 'alertness' for me. I desperately want to be a morning person, but I keep falling asleep in my chair, or at the table, or on the floor. Why does my body require sleep?!

In talking to one of my elders about this he told me to just stay up later. See, I was making myself go to sleep at a reasonable hour (not early though) so that I could wake up early and get my time in. He suggested that maybe I was just more of a night person. The problem with this is that my wife ends up going to sleep without me, which I don't like. Plus, sometimes I end up falling asleep reading at night anyways!

What I'm trying to do is stay up a little bit later at night and read whatever book I am reading, and then wake up in the morning a little bit later than I have been and do my bible thing. Kind of a compromise I guess. I also try and get some reading done on my lunch break if possible. So many books, so little time. Any suggestions? 

¶ 2/08/2006 11:16:00 AM