Monthly Archives: July 2008

Enchanted.

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Riley has been wanting me to see this for a while, ever since she first saw it.  A  friend highly recommended it for the kids…  It was pretty good, though maybe the love story was a bit mature for a 5 year old.  I guess if I let her watch Star Wars then I can’t say much about this!   I don’t want to be a hypocrite between “man movies” and “chick flicks”  :-).

This did have me thinking of Wild at Heart, which uses movies throughout the text.  And it is funny how different men and women are with respect to movies.  The “true love” theme of this one surely is a hit with women and girls alike!

Also, I didn’t care much for the dragon at the end…  Seemed a bit contrived.

4th of July Pics

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We had a great time on July 4th at my sister’s neighborhood celebration and later at Fort Bragg for fireworks.  The only disappointment was that Fort Bragg has turned into more of a party than a young children friendly event, and the fireworks didn’t start until 10 p.m.!

I will post more pictures soon to the photo gallery, but .mac is transitioning to mobleme right now and all of it is down.

Disney Picture

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I went to Cisco Networkers for the 1st time in a few years, and since it was in Orlando, Kelly and the kids came.  We were able to go to Disney and Seaworld, but we may have scarred Reece for life at Disney…  We took him into the Haunted House a few minutes after he woke up (“scarred Daddy”), and then onto the Barnstormer Roller Coaster (“too fast”).  I never thought I’d hear him say that!

Wild at Heart. John Eldredge.

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Regular readers will know that I have mentioned this book a lot over the past couple of months, as it has lead me to read other books and watch some movies.  We did this as a men’s study at church, and wrapped up a while back, but I haven’t had a chance to write much on it yet.  I really could write a lot about this book, and I had a ton of dog-eared pages to put in quotes, but I don’t think I will.   Instead, I will make an interesting observation, and then list who I think should read this book.

Observation:

It was very interesting, but many of the men in our group did not like this book at all at the beginning, but loved it by the end.  For me, I loved it from the beginning  — in fact I had trouble not reading it all in a day or two.  I did not want to do that as I wanted to read a chapter at a time to match up with our study schedule.   I was instanly drawn into the outdoor adventure that Eldridge says all men desire.  And any one that knows me knows I love the outdoors:  hiking, back packing, mountain biking, camping, orienteering, and adventure racing.  But it wasn’t just that.  There were phrases like “the high country of the soul” that spoke to me — because “the high country of the mind” is used throughout Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, one of my all time favorites.  And there was the famous Teddy Roosevelt quote on critics and the arena that seemed to come at me from many different sources all at the same time.  And some of my favorite quotes from others like Thoreau…

Anyway, I would be interested in hearing from others who have read this to see if they were instantly hooked or if it took a while, and why you think that was so for you.

Who should read it:

  • All Christian men (from mid teens all the way up!)
  • Any man that has “spiritual longings” (or questions) whether Christian or not
  • Any wife of a man that reads it (or better yet, after the husband has read it, read it together as a couple)

Kelly and I just started reading it together, and I look forward to continuing that!

One final point… Take the time to get the accompanying “Field Manual” and work through the questions in there.  You will get much more out of it if you do that.