{"id":10432,"date":"2015-01-10T23:12:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T07:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=10432"},"modified":"2015-01-11T07:06:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T15:06:24","slug":"reading-for-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2015\/01\/10\/reading-for-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading, for Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Bonhoeffer\"<\/a><\/h6>\n

The last few days I’ve been under the weather and it’s been a tremendous benefit. Why? Because I used the time to listen to a book on CD\u00a0that did me a world of good.<\/p>\n

The book:\u00a0Bonhoeffer, Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy<\/em>, by Eric Metaxas.<\/p>\n

Actually, I’ve known the Bonhoeffer name for a long time, and something of his life. Anne read the book last year along with members of her book club. But until now I’ve had little idea.<\/p>\n

This was a thorough-going 22 hours of listening, on 18 disks! I admit I slept at moments, but mostly it not only kept my mind off my malaise but truly on higher things.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it’s a great benefit being sick.<\/p>\n

Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in Germany during the days of Hitler. By his resolve, conviction, education (doctorate by age 22) and his surrender to following the words of Jesus literally, he was the exact antithesis to Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n

Much of his work was to fortify the church which, along with most of the German culture, was caving in to the pragmatics and early successes, not to mention the unstoppable force, of the dictator.<\/p>\n

Last year I read two books featuring that life. The first was Hitler’s Cross<\/em>, by Irwin W. Lutzer, a documented account of Hitler’s early occult probings and his establishing\u00a0the swastika as supreme symbol even over the church. Then I read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, A History of Nazi Germany,<\/em> in 1200 pages, by William Shirer. That book mentioned nothing of the more-than-natural powers Hitler seemed to have, but I was struck at the many times hellish\u00a0opportunities just\u00a0opened before him.<\/p>\n

There were a number of internal attempts to stop him, none succeeding. One of those involved Dietrich Bonhoeffer, for which he gave his life, by hanging, at age 39, just weeks before the war ended.<\/p>\n

But this wasn’t to be a book report. Actually, I don’t know what it was to be. Except to say that on reading the one (Rise and Fall<\/em>) I continually waged my head, and while reading (listening to) the other, I continually lifted my head.<\/p>\n

I’ve since ordered and am reading The Cost of Discipleship<\/em>, authored by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Somehow I missed this one until now. Once again I’m gaining a great deal, going through it very slowly, and after this, will again.<\/p>\n

If anything, it’s adding to my health. And this time I’m not even sick.<\/p>\n

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\nNext: The Blank Canvas blog will feature paintings made leading up to, during, and after September’s\u00a0time in Wyoming.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They aren’t books on health; it’s just that reading them affects health, soul health, when the words inspire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10432"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10468,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions\/10468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}