The end is near!!

(The end of quiet moments, I mean. The “new normal” of children is the beginning of a wonderful new phase of life!)

I look forward to being able to read with my children…

Piper once said something to the effect of there being little in the world that is a greater tragedy than reading Augustine’s Confessions too quickly.

I echo those thoughts with regard to Pilgrim’s Progress. I love reading (and re-reading and re-reading) this book on my own because you can stop and have your ‘selah’ moments whenever you like.

We read from Pilgrim’s Progress to the kids every night, and although we use different versions of the book, they are all kid versions.

The versions for children have great pictures, and a couple of them have a lot of text (pages and pages of text), but they all tend to greatly reduce the “talking head” portions like the section you quoted.

Those sections are Bunyan at his most profound, although they would be a bit beyond the kids’ abilities at this point. I’m thinking of reading the original to them in a few months … we’ll see how it goes.