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A Blessed Nuisance

The project to which I alluded yesterday continues. I’ve run out of shelf space, so I am adding about fifty feet of shelving in the office. Due to limited space combined with poor planning when I installed the present system, I’m having to take it all down and rearrange everything. It’s an enormous inconvenience, and one I hope never to deal with again. Consequently, as I am sure you will understand, I am very thankful.

Yes, I said “thankful,” so I thought I’d piggy-back today on the Thankful Thursday posts I’ve seen here and here. So here I am, being thankful:

for so many books.
for John MacArthur, whose book The Gospel According to Jesus got me started reading Christian books.
for Iain Murray, who turned me on to church history.
for numerous other authors, dead and alive.
for great publishers.
for online booksellers, who carry books local stores won’t.
for laborers who work mostly willingly for an often impatient boss (thanks, family).
for red oak.
for square-drive screws.

I am sure this blessed nuisance points to many more reasons for gratitude, but I can’t think of any right now. I’m thankful that God won’t hold that against me.

Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge, England