Reading Report

Not a lot of reading has happened around here lately. I’ve had a nasty sore throat and have fallen into bed much earlier than usual every night for almost a week. I have continued to read to my kids every day after school, but not for very long because of the sore throat. We are reading an especially long book that we have been working on for three weeks. Hopefully, we will finish it next week some time, but I can’t promise that. The one book that I have to tell you about is exceptional though, so maybe quality will make up for the lack of quantity.

Living into Focus: Choosing What Matters in an Age of Distractions written by Arthur Boers

Most people live busy and hectic lives, running from one commitment to the next longing for more time, energy, and personal connection. This type of living has become the norm in our culture. However, Arthur Boers describes a different type of lifestyle that allows people to focus more effort into what really matters most. This focused living is an effort to slow down thus reducing stress and allowing for more time for our family, friends, faith, and hobbies.

This book describes the type of lifestyle that our family has slowly gravitated toward over the last few years. I can testify that the reduction of our activities, screen time, social media, consumerism, and waste has granted us more time for our family, health, entertaining, ministry, and hobbies. And, we are happier for it. This book is the perfect follow up to the book 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess that I read a couple of weeks ago.

To learn more about this weekly reading report, click here. Or, to see a list of books already completed this year, click on the Reading Report tab above.