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...from the Bible: Paul (what was the thorn), Hosea (I want to know anyone who loves that unconditionally), Daniel (how was he so "in the world" but not of it), Boaz (He was so honorable that God invited him into the lineage of Jesus), Barnabas (I want a friend like that)....from history: DaVinci (so I can hear him laugh when I ask about "The Code"), Teddy Roosevelt (he's the "man's man" president), Winston Churchill (nobody was knocked down and got back up more times...with really witty things to say about the experience), Payne Stewart (I really wish his name didn't have to be in the history section), General George S. Patton (oh, to meet someone that complex), Clive Staples (C.S.) Lewis (smartest man in Christendom), any of the field commanders from operation Market-Garden (those guys knew how to follow really stupid orders with honor)....contemporaries: Ravi Zacharias (C.S. Lewis of this age), Tom Hanks (he seems like somebody you could just hang with), Ron Howard/Steven Speilberg (ditto), Peter Erskine (I like a lot of drummers, but I identify with him), all of the guys from the Superbowl Bills (so I could let them know how great I think they really were and how much fun they made my life for 4 years), Alton Brown and Mario Batali (if you've gotta ask, then...)....who I've already met, but would like to meet for the first time again: my wife (I'd like to meet her for the first time again everyday), my dad (I'd like feel what it's like to meet my hero "man-to-man"), my father-in-law (it's cool how an honorable man can make other people feel honorable when he meets them), my grand-fathers (I think I'm finally man enough to meet them), all the people I didn't meet graciously the first time (I wish I could meet them again so that I could owe them "nothing but love") and finally all the people that are on the other side of "burned bridges"....and I'd like to meet myself (it would be an incredible gift to be able to see yourself like other people see you, but one that may be left unopened.
There are only two kinds of music...good and bad.
Crimson Tide, Radio, Men of Honor, Patton, A Bridge Too Far...pretty much anything about honorable men being honorable.
Anything sports (and I'm obsessive about the US Open (golf), the Ryder Cup, The Masters, The Open Championship, any golf played in primetime under the lights, the Superbowl, the Daytona 500, the Pepsi 600, the Yankees in the World Series, and the entire month of March)....and Alton Brown and Mario Batali on food TV.
RomansMy Utmost for His Highest, Matthew Henry's Commentary, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography by Eberhard Bethge.Anything by Clancy, Peretti, Hemingway and Barna....and The DaVinci Code (yes, Virginia, there are some Christians secure enough in The Faith to read a book of historical and theological bunk that attacks their beliefs in the diety of Jesus and still enjoy the well written story and enjoyable "yarn"...let's get over ourselves people...if we're so petty in our faith that all we have to celebrate is a movie getting panned by critics then we need to spend more time reading and believing what's in my first favorite book...OK, my soap box is away now, it's safe to come out).