Caution!
Photo and Commentary ©2025 by Maylan Schurch
Friday, February 7, 2025

This past August at our local library I noticed caution tape barring the way to this cozy study-booth. This booth (and the one next to it, which as you see currently is occupied by a sleeping patron) is quite popular with teens, but for the time being they were prevented from using it.

For awhile I couldn’t see what was wrong with the booth. But then I noticed the gap between the right maroon cushion and the backrest. Evidently the cushion had come loose, which might have caused back problems for someone sitting there – and maybe especially for a teen who had decided to fling his or her body onto it.

Since then it’s been solidly repaired – three teens were doing schoolwork there this past Thursday – and it’s a great example of how this library has been designed for all kinds of students or other kinds of library consumers. There are easy chairs, there are individual desks, there are computer terminals, there are study rooms with closable doors, and there’s at least one long counter with stools, on which you can spread out quite a bit of research material. (This is my favorite spot.) In other words, it’s a friendly library.

And of course our library has a lot of resources, electronic and otherwise. It’s what makes it seem such a safe place to me.

You probably own another kind of library – which grows friendlier and friendlier the more time you spend there. It’s your Bible, which contains 66 separate books, and the guidance of a librarian known as the Holy Spirit, who was responsible for inspiring and arranging its writings. Check out the links below . . . .

To read the Bible through chronologically this year, click this link:

https://bellevueadventist.org/chronological-bible-reading-plan/

To learn more about the Bible’s books, click this link:

https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/books-of-the-bible

Next step – read! Get into a “you-friendly” setting, maybe even your local library, and absorb these Books of timeless wisdom.