Sugar had remembered, and gotten down the two Advent calendars yesterday, so today at breakfast Lil' Snip got to open the flap with a "1" on it while Spice read to us from Luke about the angel Gabriel coming to Mary.
I printed out Ann Voskamp's beautiful Jesse Tree ornaments, and copied some devotional readings to go along with the ornaments.
And somewhere in the evening hours, after a deliciously unseasonable day of t-shirts and raking leaves and making angels out of discarded hymnals, a challenge came my way from a distant young cousin of my Farmer - to read the Bible in 90 days.
Intrigued (and yes, convicted by her mention of time spent on facebook!), I printed out the plan and said I'm in. I showed it to my oldest girls, Sugar (who loves to compete) and Spice (who loves a challenge). They thought they'd like to try, too.
Starting now.
It took surprisingly little time to read the first day's chapters, once I'd re-mastered the trick of sticking to a single task (which was surprisingly hard).
Here's a few of the gems that stood out to me:
~ The order of creation (Genesis 1): light (but not sun or stars yet), sky (got its own whole day!), division of water and earth, plants, sun, moon, stars, sea creatures, birds, animals, man. [although Genesis 2 has God creating a man first and afterward planting a garden and forming animals and birds, and then woman].
~ God, bitterly regretting that he had made man (Genesis 6:6).
~ That it was Abram's father Terah who first struck out toward Canaan (11:31) but stopped short and settled in Harran. [also, was the land of Canaan named after Ham's son Canaan, who Noah cursed?]
Care to join me and my girls, anyone? A three-month journey through God's story to us, to rediscover, perhaps, who He is, and why He so deeply loves us . . . ? (And beautifully timed to coincide with Advent, the season of waiting for a Redeemer)
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