Some links for inspiration:
With the above inspiration, I’d like to maintain a growing list of some things I love. Since it is meant to be thoughtful, I’ve left off some of my obvious off-the-chart loves like family or Scripture.
Books: My Side of the Mountain; To Kill a Mockingbird; Lord of the Rings; Packer’s Knowing God; The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God; Vos’s Biblical Theology; Joy at the End of the Tether; Mere Christianity; see also Books
Movies: Lord of the Rings (all three); Wallace and Gromit (any of the shorts or the feature); Napoleon Dynamite; Princess Bride; Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail; O Brother Where Art Thou; To Kill a Mockingbird; Driving Miss Daisy; The Shawshank Redemption
Television shows: X Files, 24, Babylon 5, Law and Order (original and SVU)
Vacations: Montreal; Kure Beach; Wintergreen, VA
Music: J. S. “Papa” Bach; Dieterich Buxtehude; Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (I love pronouncing that!); other baroque composers; Ralph Vaughn Williams; Benjamin Britton; Samuel Barber; bluegrass; also
Alan Hovhaness’s Prayer of St. Gregory
Edward Elgar’s “Nimrod” variation
Radio: Riders in the Sky; The Music Box