2010 Books I Read

1. Why we Hate the Oil Companies - John Hofmeister
2. The Sign of Four - Conan Doyle
3. The Ugly American – William Lederer
4. A Study in Scarlet - Conan Doyle
5. On Paradise Drive - David Brooks
6. The Conscience of a Liberal – Paul Krugman
7. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
8. Homegrown Democrat - Garrison Keillor
9. Basics of Retaining Wall Design - Hugh Brooks
10. The Virginian - Owen Wister
11. American Revelation - Neil Baldwin
12. Comeback America - David Walker
13. Audacity of Hope – Barak Obama
14. Take this Bread - Sara Miles
15. Sleeping Murder – Agatha Christie
16. Murder at the Vicarage – Agatha Christie
17. False Economy - Alan Beattie
18. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Charles Mann
19. The Survivor’s Club – Ben Sherwood
20. Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 - Charles Mann
21. How to Raise Totally Awesome Kids - Borsellino
22. Nemesis - Agatha Christie
23. The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie
24. Disciplines for an Inner Life – Bob Benson (partial)
25. In Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Aron Ralston
26. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming - Christopher Horner

2010 Books I Listened To

1. Supreme Court: The Law of the Land - Kermit Hall
2. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
3. The War Within - Bob Woodward
4. Playing for Pizza - John Grisham
5. All the President's Men - Bob Woodward
6. Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir by Tony Hillerman
7. The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien
8. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World - Tracy Kidder

...God owns the Hills as well. (Haiti Day 7)

This land is surround by sprawl
In every direction people, homes, destruction
Yet the land remains.
In a land of squatter's rights, no one took root
In the years of expansion, it was left alone
and now it is ready for use.

A rough land, despairing, wet muck, not suitable for people.
Even in this country of pervasive perpetual poverty, people could not see the value of cultivating the land
and they left it alone.
We walked it, and the land's despair became our own;
How can this be habitable?
Fear and doubt take root - I cannot do this.

And the Lord speaks to me
First in a whisper, to comfort my soul
Then in a shout, declaring His might:
<em>"This is my land</em>
<em>and I choose to redeem it</em>
<em>to bring it to life.</em>
<em>It has remained fallow til this day,</em>
<em>for such a day as this."</em>

If God is confident then I choose to believe,
to trust in the repair of this land
which no one wanted
which will not drain
which is <em>too</em> flat
To have faith in the one who created.

He broke me, and then redeemed me
Opened my eyes to my own darkness, and then brought me into the light.

We are most ready for God at moments of humility,
Whether that be me,
or a people broken and surrounded by darkness
or a plot of abandoned property.

<em>And as for me, I know that my redeemer lives, and at the last He will take His stand on the earth - </em>Job 19:25
<em>For every beast of the forest is mine. The cattle on a thousand hills</em> - Psalm 50:10