I will admit that I read too much sometimes. Much of my day is spent reading either in books or in the never ending amount of material to be found online. You need to know however that I started reading at an early age. Even though my college minor is in history I still think about going back to school to earn an English degree. I read. I am "addicted" to reading. Not everyone is like that. Part of it is in how God wired me. I can be honest enough to state that some of it may be due to reasons not quite so noble or godly. I read lots of novels during the course of a year. I read in history/biography quite a bit. My most recent accomplishment is The American Lion by Jon Meacham. It is a very readable biography of Andrew Jackson. Now my attention is turning to another book by Bob Woodward on the Bush presidency. Maybe there will be time to sneak in some comic book reading along the way.

One of the things about our founding fathers (including Jackson) is how much they relied on the writing of letters. If you ever read a serious biography of these great men or women you will find out much of the material comes from their letters. There was no Internet or text messaging then. Their thoughts about life, government and even God reside in the letters they wrote. Andrew Jackson devoted much of his day to writing letters. They are the source of his communication on his feelings about the topics of his day. People like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington are known to us intimately because they wrote letters.

I wish we lived in those days. Today we send texts that leave out punctuation and vowels. We have our own new grammatical need to interpret texting. We drop hastily written e-mails that are devoid of emotion or intellect. When we do write it is usually just the bare basics that reveal little about our character. I confess that I am guilty of all the above. Our world moves too fast for letter writing that is insightful and informative. One of my hopes for renewed blogging is to see this medium as letter writing to whoever stumbles on it. There is much to say about this but it will wait for another day. I close this post, "sincerely yours."

Bro. Trey