I finished reading the devotional book Streams in the Desert. It is supposed to be a one year devotional, but it took me a couple of years to finally get through it. Just shows you how diligent I have been in my daily quiet times =P.

I had heard about this devotional from a couple of friends who had gone through it, and I figured that since I had been going through a spiritual dry spell at the time as well as some difficult work periods, this would be encouraging to read. I enjoyed the simple reading passages, which oftentimes were excerpts of songs, poems or writings from historical Christians who had gone through challenging times.

Actually, being the geek that I am, I read this devotional as an ebook on my ipaq with Laridian’s DailyReader program, which made it easy to keep track of which day I was on. But since it took me so long to finish, I had to reset or reinstall or replace my ipaq a couple of times over the course of reading, and this proved to be somewhat disruptive in the way the program keeps track of the days. But in the end, I was able to get it working (and of course, I would rather go through the challenge of making the software work, than carrying around a hardcopy version of the book).