Week 464
Positive Post Sunday, January 18, 2026…. Week 464. Along with my Medicare card😊, for my 65th birthday, I recently received a beautiful bookshelf from my wife Michele. She spent three hours assembling it (over a hundred screws, endless patience, and a whole lot of love). That’s devotion you can’t buy at any store.
As I watched her begin to piece it together in the evening before I called it a night, and while gathering my books scattered from every corner of our house and garage, a thought surfaced: a home without books is like a body without a soul. Books breathe life into a room. They whisper our curiosities, our convictions, our questions, and our quiet hopes.
The next morning, I walked downstairs to my office area and stopped in my tracks. There it stood—my new towering bookshelf, solid and inviting. As I began placing each book on its shelf, arranging them by subject, memory, and meaning, something struck me. In just a few minutes of looking at someone’s bookshelf, you can learn more about who they are than in hours of conversation. A bookshelf is a portrait. A silent autobiography. A map of the mind and a window into the heart.
What we choose to read shapes us. It forms our thoughts, sharpens our values, and deepens our faith and understanding of the world. In many ways, what you read becomes who you are. And as I stepped back and looked at those shelves, I realized I was looking at a reflection of my own journey, a journey filled with Faith, Family and Fitness, The Triangle of Life!
How does your bookshelf represent who you are?
If you are what you read, do you need to make any adjustments?