Studying @ Tyndale

I assume most of your wouldn't know or care about the name Walter Brueggemann (one of the leading Old Testament scholars in the world). However, for the select few of you actually reading this blog who do... consider the daunting daily experience of pulling books off the shelves at Tyndale in which the last borrower listed was "11/2006 Brueggemann, 9." 

Most recently, this morning the man next to me kindly asked, "Will you be a permanent fixture here?" which is British for "Do I have any reason to spend my time getting to know you, or are you just here for a short stent." Once we had introduced ourselves I went back to work on my bibliography, and realized that the man sitting next to me was in fact the last entry on the page: Ian Wilson. NBD.. maybe I'll just skip reading that one and ask him what he wrote about. Needless to say, it has been an inspiring first few weeks interacting with the book logs and people at Tyndale House. Maybe in my wildest dreams someday someone will be excited when the see the last entry on the book log as "Melton, 47."