I've taken a break from the Buddhist book for now. Though it has some cool stuff I've been using in my prayer life, there is a lot of strange stuff that can be tiring to wade through.

Now I'm reading Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper. It's about how a Christian should live life to the fullest sharing God's love and glory. I've felt kind of stale lately so this has been a good jolt in the right direction for me. Piper continually makes the point that we were created to bring glory to God and that as a Christian, I should be mindful of that in everything I do - work, school, spending, speaking, everything. His words aren't radically new to me, but they have been a great reminder to me of the life I want to lead. I want to bring glory to God by the way I cat in the dorm so that the guys around me "may, because of my deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation." (I Peter 2:12)