1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth full sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around looking for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
Here's mine (I didn't cheat. This book was the first book at my side):
The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
When all the steam has evaporated the salt from the solution remains in the base
of the flask that contained the solution.
Well, THAT was seriously BORING! Now, I'll cheat. This book was on my nightstand.
Back to Virtue, by Peter Kreeft
God, too, hungers and thirsts.
That was good enough to expound upon...
What about God? Does he hunger? Yes and no. God has no needs
and therefore no need-loves. The reason is not that God lacks love, but
that God is love. Water can't get wet because it is
wet. God can't "fall" in love because he is love. This love
is agape, gift-love, love based on excess, not defect. God is
like an overflowing fountain, not like a receiving bucket. But this
fountain is not less dynamic, demanding, active and alarming than our most
passionate need-loves. The Hound of Heaven hunts for us more assiduously
than a starving dog hungs for a steak.
God too hungers and thirsts. He told us so, from the
Cross. It was not vinegar he thirsted for, but for people to enter his
Kingdom. Lovers thirst for other selves, not to consume but to give
themselves to.
WOW!!
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