Okay, I can do better than that.

I'm not satisfied with my last post. I always do that; I want to say what's on my mind then back out because I think of all the angles people might be able to take on what I say. You know what, I'm just gonna do it.

I have this really cool little book. It's actually a christian book. And I don't think christian books are cool. I mean, come on. they just aren't. They might have good points in them and be very "good for you" but they aren't cool. I've never understood why Christians have to sacrifice good writing for what they want to say. It's been one of my biggest struggles in reading christian literature. It's just not well written.

So back to the book. Philip Yancey wrote a book called "What's so amazing about grace?". And after he wrote it, somehow an artist or maybe a publisher, or an agent, (I have no idea) read it and thought it was actually good. He must have been afraid to come out and admit it at first; I would've been. But he somehow got Philip to agree to let the book be used to make a visual edition of the same name. The result is really cool. And I'm not saying cool for a christian book. I'm just sayin' plain and simple cool. Here's a link to the book. Philip says in the intro on the visual edition that he secretly hopes this book will inspire people to go out and read the full length book because he has so much more to say.

I didn't.

I didn't need to. The book stands alone. There's a page that has a prayer written over and over again in it like something you'd see a child writing on a blackboard for some sort of school punishment. It says: "Dear God, please make the bad people good, and the good people nice." I really want to pray that prayer whenever anyone asks me to say a prayer. Martin says I'm just asking for trouble if I do. And he's almost always wiser than me on social issues so I listen. But for the first time in a long time, that's a prayer that sounds right.