HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I'll never forget the New Year's Eve when I was pregnant and two weeks overdue. My two-year-old, Brooke, was asleep for the night, my husband, Bruce was working one of his two jobs, so I was home alone for most of the evening, and I thought I'd be pregnant forever. Six hours and thirteen minutes into the new year (and a little snowstorm, of course), I was not. Lisa was born, a time-proven bundle of delight.
Maybe that's why I have such a spirit of "expectancy" every time the New Year rolls around!
Each new year I feel like God is handing me 365 beautifully wrapped presents, one for each day!
I'm excited!
Another thing I anticipate every new year is starting over with a Bible reading plan.
When I was a little kid, my Sunday School teacher, Mrs. Paulson, at First Baptist, Waupaca, WI, would show us her Bible reading plan--a nice new little folder with every day of the year and assigned chapters to get through the whole Bible in a year. She used it as a bookmark. As the weeks and months went by she would show us how she was doing, each days reading neatly crossed off with a big, bold line. Different colored inks proved she was doing it on a daily basis, and that she probably lost her pen on various occassions--hurray! She's human!
Made quite an impression on me. I spent most Sundays in January racing through chapters of Genesis during the Sunday morning sermon so I could cross them off on the folder Mrs. Paulson gave me. Sometimes I even made it through February--I believe Leviticus and Numbers usually did me in, or I'd lose my folder.
But 40 years later, here I am still trying. And now, only a computer crash can keep me from losing "the plan." Here's my favorite website for Bible reading plans. I hope you'll try it out this year!
http://www.navpress.com/Magazines/DiscipleshipJournal/
On the left hand column of this page click on "Bible Reading Plans." There's a 5-minute-a-day plan that will get you through the New Testament in a year, and there are a couple to choose from to get you through both the Old and New. Ha Ha! No excuses!
Reading the Bible through (or at least trying) this year will bless your socks off!
I'll never forget the New Year's Eve when I was pregnant and two weeks overdue. My two-year-old, Brooke, was asleep for the night, my husband, Bruce was working one of his two jobs, so I was home alone for most of the evening, and I thought I'd be pregnant forever. Six hours and thirteen minutes into the new year (and a little snowstorm, of course), I was not. Lisa was born, a time-proven bundle of delight.
Maybe that's why I have such a spirit of "expectancy" every time the New Year rolls around!
Each new year I feel like God is handing me 365 beautifully wrapped presents, one for each day!
I'm excited!
Another thing I anticipate every new year is starting over with a Bible reading plan.
When I was a little kid, my Sunday School teacher, Mrs. Paulson, at First Baptist, Waupaca, WI, would show us her Bible reading plan--a nice new little folder with every day of the year and assigned chapters to get through the whole Bible in a year. She used it as a bookmark. As the weeks and months went by she would show us how she was doing, each days reading neatly crossed off with a big, bold line. Different colored inks proved she was doing it on a daily basis, and that she probably lost her pen on various occassions--hurray! She's human!
Made quite an impression on me. I spent most Sundays in January racing through chapters of Genesis during the Sunday morning sermon so I could cross them off on the folder Mrs. Paulson gave me. Sometimes I even made it through February--I believe Leviticus and Numbers usually did me in, or I'd lose my folder.
But 40 years later, here I am still trying. And now, only a computer crash can keep me from losing "the plan." Here's my favorite website for Bible reading plans. I hope you'll try it out this year!
http://www.navpress.com/Magazines/DiscipleshipJournal/
On the left hand column of this page click on "Bible Reading Plans." There's a 5-minute-a-day plan that will get you through the New Testament in a year, and there are a couple to choose from to get you through both the Old and New. Ha Ha! No excuses!
Reading the Bible through (or at least trying) this year will bless your socks off!
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