For any observant readers out there that have been wondering how my 90-day Bible-reading challenge has been going (and why they aren't seeing updates), here's how it's going:
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l
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l
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[which is a nice way of saying that I'm weeks behind schedule.]
I started out strong. I really believed I would keep up. "It's only a half an hour a day," I remember telling someone, that first week.
It was fun at first. I gulped down Genesis, Exodus, even Leviticus. Reveled in "seeing the big picture." Then in Numbers I started hitting serious genealogies.
I don't do so well with genealogies. I want to skip over them, but can't - it feels too much like cheating. I have to sound out every name. I resort to reading them aloud in order to stay on task. I move a piece of paper down the page, to mark the line I'm on, to help me move along.
Nevertheless, I find my eyes glazing over, make myself go back and read again the lines I've inadvertently skimmed [or skipped].
So.
I'm still plugging along - and will continue to do so, until I finish. I'm not excited anymore (although that could come back, once the genealogies are behind me for good - but that's books and books away ...!). I try to fake it, at least when I'm talking to Sugar, who - of course - is still on schedule (as she has been ever since conception).
That's the update. Anyone who's doing it, too, and fell behind - we can do this.
Remember the tortoise and the hare - ?
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