Shake the NAtions

On Monday (my day off) I was napping. I was woken up just before noon by a short earthquake. My bed was shaking. I went down stairs and asked my roomate Dave if he had felt it and he hadn't. On account of this I thought that I had dreamt the shaking until Tuesday morning when I went back to work and a cowoker mentioned the quake to me. A 3.1 or something in alumn rock. Very perceptive Dave hehehe. Anyway.

After loafing around for awhile I went to Lake Elizabeth (one of my favirote places) I jogged/ walked around the lake while listening to John Piper's lecture on the life and thought of St. Augstine. It was quite moving. Jogging while listening to John Piper can be a extremely pleasurable experience (thank God for portable MP3 players). I had not previously known that a central issue in Augustine's conversion was delivernace from the bondage to sexual lust that had such a grip on him. He came to see that godly chastity was a greater pleasure than sex. There were also many other wonderful points in the lecture http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Biographies/1474_The_Swan_is_Not_Silent/
Later Monday night I happened to go to good old Half Priced Books, where I hadn't been for a few years since before they moved to Pacific Commons, I picked up a copy of the Confessions for 3 dollars and 98 cents. Great deal. I also got a CD of BAch organ music and a copy of the Forest Gump Soundtrack. Anyway the Confessions is a really good book. It started out a little slow. I didn't really get much out of the part about being a baby, but once he gets to adolescence its a real page turner. It is great how he intermingles confessions of his sinful life apart from Christ with praises of the God who saved him from it.

"Pride immitates what is lofty; but you alone are God most high above all things. What does ambition seek but honour and glory? Yet you alone are worthy of honour and are glorious for eternity. The cruelty of powerful people aims to arouse fear. Who is to be feared but God alone?"

Augustine