This is an awesome thread! Thank you for it Deilla!

I guess I'll mention the one book besides the Bible that has influenced me for the good since 1992 to the present! (I listen to it, or parts of it often on youtube as an audiobook.) 'Hinds' Feet on High Places'! The most inspiring, encouraging book I've ever read besides the Bible! It's like a gentle, sweet friend with beautiful words and is an allegory about the spiritual journey. You learn lessons from nature. One of my favorites is about a tiny red flower with only two or three leaves and a stem that is thread-like in its thinness. It insists on blooming from out of the rock where it is imprisoned so that it can receive the sun's glorious rays!