Readers
What is it about the printed word that so fascinates some of us? And then there are people who find no interest in the printed word and don't like to read. We don't understand each other. I am so surprised when I meet people who don't like to read. And some of them are surprised to meet someone who does. What's bad is when one group looks down on the other.

I get much out of reading--from the Bible at the top of the list to the lesser lights of Peanuts comic strips and and sports reports. I like a good turn of phrase, like the columnist last week who said the only thing Liberia had ever successfully exported was chaos, or when George Will mentioned that one could find the French constitution at the library in the periodicals section. I like being taken to times and places I'll never see in this life.

So I am surprised when I meet someone who doesn't get that same joy from reading. I have come to realize that--as in a lot of things--my affinity for reading in no way makes me superior to someone without the same love. So I read the Bible, even that's only of value if I do something with it.