Of Road Blocks and Honesty
Something beautiful that God made, that i took a picture of today. With all this talk of stirring up my gifts and whatnot, i can hear the unspoken comments in my head, wondering why i haven't included any specific, daily, weekly, monthly Bible-reading or prayer goals. Well, for one, it kind of goes without saying. For two, i have road blocks. I started my most recent read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year program, in about May 2009, give or take a year and some months. So i guess i should call it the read-through-the-Bible-eventually plan. I've read through the Bible several times in the course of my days, but this time, i wanted to specifically, not just read, but soak and understand. Well, when i seek to soak and understand, sometimes i run into parts of the Bible that are sort of more difficult to soak up, per se. I most recently got stuck in Jeremiah. Jeremiah has its moments, it has some really inspirational isolated scriptures, but other part...