As we move soon into week 6 of our calendar, perhaps you have kept up flawlessly. Maybe you haven't. Regardless of where you stand, consider all of the children in your neighborhood that have gone home from school for the summer with a summer reading list in hand. Shakespeare, Harper Lee, Poe: all whose titles are worth reading. Consider the extra daylight summer awards all of us, even those who don't get a "summer break." 

While high schoolers dive deep into the pages of Homer's "Odyssey," maybe we should devote some of our summer sunlight to Paul's letters. Even if you have a summer reading list and you are a student even now, consider devoting an extra half hour to some life-giving summer reading. January isn't the only time to begin a bible reading plan. If you start now, by the time you go on vacation in 2011 you could have read through the entire Bible. Maybe you'll be in the Gospels just in time for Christmas! Let's all get on board with this summer reading thing, for real.