Things that make me smile , or dance , or shout , or burn on the inside:
The New York Yankees, C. S. Lewis , time spent with good friends, writing , listening to Sweetness by Jimmy Eat World on the radio, politics, my wonderful family , a good book on a slow day...
And then there is the One who underpins it all, my Foundation and my Joy .
Switchfoot, Death Cab, Delirious, Beck, Coldplay, Thrice, United, Ben Folds, Chopin, Oasis, Smashing Pumpkins, No Doubt, Noise Ratchet, and the list goes on and on.
These movies are anthems to me: The Lord of the Rings, Finding Forester, Cinderella Man, Good Will Hunting, Chariots of Fire.
Anything by C. S. Lewis (particularly Narnia, The Four Loves and The Great Divorce). The Cost of Discipleship, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Oliver Twist, The Old Man and the Sea, To Kill a Mockingbird... and poetry by Frost and Tennyson.
Jesus. My father and mother. C. S. Lewis. Dietrich Bonhoeffer.