I am glad I made the effort to read Saint Augustine's Confessions. It is not a difficult book, but there are so many ideas to think about that it requires time to process it. The first nine books are his confessions of sin. He reviews his life and how God leads him to Christian faith. These read through fairly quickly. Most of the meat is in the last four books - his confessions of faith. He spends one book considering the memory. After that he begins an in-depth look at Creation. An entire book considers what the words "in the beginning" mean, and another meditates on how God created something out of nothing. The final book looks at the Creation account as an analogy for God's saving work in the world. Overall, Confessions had deepened my appreciation for the Christians that have gone before me, the for depth of thought they put into their faith, and for thier willingness to act on what they believed.