Reader's Undigest

Oh no! Oh no!

I don't like to read. :'(

What am I supposed to do??

http://www.readfaster.com/readingquotes.asp

I don't even know what they all say. Cause I didn't read them.

And if you don't read, you don't go anywhere.

Leaders are readers... or is it the other way around?

Are you even reading this?

When I was a kid (and even now) I was/am the figure it out on your own type child. I never read directions. I looked at the picture on the box. Most of the time it turned out ok (My dad was an engineer... otherwise I would be hopeless)

I'm scared.

I want to go places in life... but I want to see the places for real. I don't want to read about them on a page. I want to see how red the roses are or how pristine the water is for myself.

GRANTED: I have read a few books. They were good, which is why I read them. Some of them were for school, but some I actually chose to read on my own. And I am a better person because of those books (The Bible, The Hiding Place, Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler, Twenty and Ten, The Screwtape Letters... just to name a few)

I don't know what to do. It's one thing to read a biography or war stories or something that actually happened. But fiction? I'm not even gonna go there.

Ok, I am now only rambling and making you read about how much I don't like reading.

Please don't get me wrong. Reading is a wonderful, valuable, even crucial thing. "The keeey that takes you where you want to beeee" as my grandma says. And now I am staring at a blinking line thingy because I don't know what to say about where that leaves me.

I will say this though... my "figure it out on your own" personality is no exception to the life-instructions of the Bible. I cling to those teachings and directions with everything I am. I do, in fact, love God's Word, and the only way I can know it for myself is to read it. And right now... that is my hope to hang in there and keep reading.