books of the month

Last month I read East of Eden by Steinbeck, and Recapture the Wonder by Raavi Zacharias. Partnered with my current reading of Exclusion & Embrace by Miroslav Volf, I have had a profound interest in the Genesis saga. I'm reading through Genesis in The Message paraphrase for the first time. There is so much raw literary power in these narratives. The current construction of my faith sees it as real history, but not literal history. The impact of these stories is so big that I feel less and less need to worry about the depth of their actual historicity. Not that I don't care if it's pure myth or pure history, but that it really doesn't matter that much. However, if there was no historicity to it, I would never have given it the time and energy I have. The narratives communicate God and ourselves to us, but if none of it was real, than it could just as easily be a made up god and humanity that they are communicating.
I hope I made sense in what I just typed. I'm a little fuzzy headed, and my hip muscles are a bit in spasm, and I'm slightly hurried. Sorry for the whining.