Overview: There’s a delightful melody in the ancient voices as they travel through time’s narrow door. I hear them best on my front-porch rocker that faces an ocean marsh. There, beneath curious stars, the orchestration emerges, mingling with moonlight tides.

Sometimes Socrates sings the high notes while Thucydides pulls the bass line. Aristophanes rallies his chorus, and Caesar charges over a hilltop near the dark Teutoburg Forest. There are times when I struggle with the faint lyrics, but with patience, the scenes begin to breathe again.

Verdict: Hurry! It’s midnight, and the curtain is opening. The actors twirl their swords and fluff their flowing robes. Sophocles is quieting the theater, requesting our attention. Oedipus, now an aged actor, leans upon his daughter Antigone. His face glowers from twenty years of wandering beneath ghastly burdens and past failures.

Slowly, they climb a rocky path that leads to the edge of a forest. His words still resonate for us today with a vibrant relevance, as do all thirty-three ancient authors in Meditations from the Classics.

I mean, come on now, if just that opening statement isn’t enough to have immediately grabbed you attention and began to burrow its way into your curiosity to know more, than you, my friend, must be fast asleep at the wheel!

With each of the meditations contained in this book beginning with a carefully selected passage from the ancient classic writers, these stories blend seamlessly with the author’s very own musings and the scripture selections that accompany them.

With a set of profound closing words that are sure to uplift the reader, what we have here, as a whole, is a book from author David R. Denny that not only grabs your attention from the off, but carries it onward upon and within a stream of beautiful harmonies throughout the entire complete prose.

I simply cannot give enough praise to this wonderfully creative new book, as it had me hooked from page one and never let go of my desire to finish a chapter, laying it bed, and yet feel the compelling emotion to just start the next chapter to see where it would lead and what it would lovingly reveal. [A desire that led me into actually finishing the book in just three nights!]

Thus, and in closing, this book reveals a rather delightful melody that fluctuates within the ancient voices and their offerings within their respective midnight meditations; all perfectly palatable for those thirsty to know life’s whispering secrets.

And so, I honestly, passionately urge you to go out, buy this book, sit down in a quiet area, have a cup of tea nearby, and just allow yourself to be welcomed into all these most glorious meditations from the classics.

About the Author - David Denny was born in Albany, Georgia and moved often during his early years. Early in his life, he felt an urge to be a minister, so he attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Continuing his education, he enrolled in the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary where he earned his Ph.D. in New Testament Studies. He is currently pastor of a quaint Baptist church in Accomac, Virginia.

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