Today is Monday, March 18th, 2013; Karen's Korner #2526

If you live in Iowa, you probably have heard of "Live Healthy Iowa", which has as many Iowans as possible participating a list of ways to live more healthy:  improving eating habits, weight loss, more physical fitness.
 
I am on a team organized by a handful of church members to be more active and keep track of the number of minutes team members walk, exercise, do physical activity around the house, like added housework chores.
 
Our minister's wife/church secretary also organized a listing for anyone in our church who wants to be more 'spiritually fit'. It contains a dozen Bible verses for us to potentially learn; younger kids have a simplified list.
 
Could our adult Sunday School class who ranges in age from teens to the nineties memorize them?
 
We embarked. We say them. Repeat them. Read them. Maybe work on them during the week between Sundays.Then we recite them to a noted 'listener' - together.
 
As someone in the mid-sixties, I wasn't sure I could pound anything into my head and make it stay! While it might be taking longer than when I was much younger, it is working......
 
The Lord's Prayer is on our list and is familiar to most, but the one we are learning has several changed words (i.e. debts/debtors vs. trespasses/trespass) which are denomination recites at times. Not so rote. Makes us think.
 
Right now we are attempting to learn The Beatitudes (Sermon on the Mount); I have never memorized them!
 
So here are a couple; on our 'learned list'. These will be Karen Weld's translation (as I am not going to look them up to verify):
 
"Jesus answered, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
~ John 14:6
 
"Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called Sons of God."
~ Matthew 5:9
 
Know what the biggest thing about learning/memorizing some thing like this?
 
Thinking/believing we can!!
 
Can you do it? Like us how about trying it??

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