I’ve let my mind slip.  In high school I was sharp.  By college I was skating through: cramming for tests, not really learning.  I feel like my mind has turned to mush.  I suppose that I haven’t totally stopped learning.  I taught myself PHP and video editing in 2007 and continued to hone those skills in 2008.  However, I want to work out the part of my brain that deals with abstract thinking.

So, for 2009 I’m committing to more reading.  Specifically, I am going to finish reading three books that I have started: Christian Theology: an Introduction by Allister McGrath, It by Craig Groeschel, and The Shack by W. Paul Young.  In addition to these I plan to read two to three books with my mentee and at least one book with my men’s group.  This spring my group is reading St. Augustine’s Confessions, and I want to have the book read before we start as well as read along with the group throughout the semester.

I may add some to this later, but for now, this is a good start.  Not including the partials (one of which still has a few hundred pages left), this means that I’ll be reading at least eleven books this year.  (I’ve got 8 more books to read as an NCC Protege.)

As part of this goal, I also intend to review each book that I read here on my blog.

What are your intellectual goals for 2009?

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