Something to Think About

I have recently received several emails all containing lists of different questions. Most of these lists are pretty simple lists that are curiosities for the reader but don't take too much thought on the part of the writer. However, there have been a few questions that I have found a little more thought provoking so I thought I would share some of them. These questions are the ones I found most interesting from several different lists.

1. What two fiction books have affected your life in such a way as to make a difference? It actually took me a while to come up with an answer to this question. I could list many non-fiction books that have really impacted my life but it really took me a while to think of fiction books that I could truly say -- made a difference in my life. So, this is what I came up with: This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti , and In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon.

2. What is one place you are dying to visit? Tibet. I have always had a travel bug, and there are many many places in the world I would love to see before I die. Tibet is at the top of the list. It may sound weird but something about the country has fascinated me for years. I became more interested in visiting after watching the movie 7 Years in Tibet. Other top places on my list: The Great Barrier Reef, The Great Wall of China, Iwo Jima (The battle of Iwo Jima lasted only 35 days and the U.S. had nearly 7,000 dead and 20,000 wounded. My haven't we changed what we believe in as acceptable loss of human life. Of the 21,000 Japanese defending the island 20,700 died.).

3. If you could transport yourself into any particular time period, forever, where would you go? I would want to be born just after the Civil War. I have always been fascinated by the beauty and the adventure of that age. It would be nice to live in an era when people still believed that it was right to fight for something. It would also mean I would be alive to see the transition to the modern era -- automobiles, planes, travel into space, etc. . .I wouldn't want to be born much later though, because it would be nice to have lived and died before homosexuality and women pastors became an accepted thing in churches. Before corporal punishment and capitol punishment became abuse and cruel and unusual. It would be nice to have never had to live through the embarrassment of Clinton being thought of as one of the greatest presidents ever.