Today is Thursday, September 22nd, 2005; Karen's Korner #639

Yesterday's Karen's Korner hit a chord with some of you as several responded in various ways. I wrote about reading the Bible in 61 hours and how if a person would divide the hours by the number of days in a year, he/she could read it through by faithfully reading 10 - 15 minutes every day.
 
Some mentioned liking to faithfully do something like that, and they have; several took yesterday's writing as a challenge. One lady said she has tried to do the daily reading of the entire Bible a couple of times, but has never succeeded.
 
A good friend, Florine Swanson, wrote about her husband Ron reading the Bible from front to back the first time he read the Bible through. "Now he reads bits and pieces each morning," she said.  "He has two daily prayer books and each has verses that they recommend that he then reads in the Bible.  At Advent and Lent he adds additional prayer books.  Sometimes if they relate to me, he has them at my place at the table to read. Ron's father read the Bible every morning.  Like father, like son!" She said he began the daily ritual when he was 37 and has kept with it for nearly 30 years.
 
Jan Cruise of Nebraska related this personal note:  "I bought the Living Bible from Guidepost which was called a one year Bible. It sat for several years and then I was challenged after attending a three-day weekend retreat to dig deeper into the Word. I found it and dusted if off. I read it and passed it on to a friend who read it, then my Dad, then another friend and now my sister-in-law. I just ask that they write their name and the year they read it in the front of the Bible. Oh, another huge blessing, my 96-year-old father who is in a nursing home is reading the Bible for the third time. He reads everyday and is right on schedule. Pretty neat!!!!"
 
 

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