Monday around here was another day of measuring, hauling, and installing doors. I found out that you can’t trim the bottom of composite doors, so I have had to buy wooden ones (which weigh a lot more) and trim the bottom of them. So far, every door in this house has been a different size. If makes you wonder. This started out as a repaint of the bedroom. Kathy wanted it painted, but I decided that all the doors in the bedroom had to match. I was tired of the brown, hollow doors. Now, after four doors, two sets of bi-fold doors, and buying stock in Home Depot, I have accomplished the mission–the room is painted and all the doors match. It looks pretty good, too. However, the “cascading paint syndrome” has manifested itself. The bedroom looks so good that it demands that the bathroom be redone to match up. Meanwhile, the door thing was such a good idea that I am now in the process of replacing all the doors in the house with six-panel white interior doors. By the time I have replaced all these interior doors, I will have had enough practice to begin the process of replacing the exterior door that the dog ate. We shall see how that goes…
A few months ago, I finally finished reading Mere Christianity. Father Jim is using Simply Christian by N. T. Wright as a source book for one of his classes at St. Paul’s this year. I also have always wanted to read Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, so that is my next challenge in my reading program.
After seeing Amazing Grace, a movie I really enjoyed and no one else seems to have heard of, I ordered Wilberforce’s A Practical View of Christianity. In case you wonder who Wilberforce is, he was the member of Parliament who was responsible for the abolition of slavery in the British Isles. In this book, he stresses the importance of the Christian’s involvement in the political process. After all the discussion concerning the “religious right,” you have to wonder where Wilberforce’s ideas fit. After I read the book, I will know.
