Love-God Progress

In this post, I laid out my goals for 2013 in very broad terms:

1. Love God.
2. Live Connected.
3. Serve All.

I am attacking #1 first with a plan to read the Bible through in one year.  I have heard of such plans but never attempted them before.  A co-worker of mine who blogs over at Heart, Soul, Tummy is doing it and I thought it would be a good idea to join her.  Our plan has two parts - a few chapters of the Old Testament and then a section from the New.  It's chronological, which I have never done before, but I'm enjoying it so far.

She got it out of the back of her Bible, so she just made me a copy.

It's interesting how passages that you have read or heard your whole life mean something different to you in different phases of life.  I read things so much differently now that I'm a mother.  It's like there's a whole new layer of me that these stories travel through to get to my head and heart, and that layer strains out things I overlooked, or simply didn't have the experience to recognize.  Rachel's behavior in the old testament has always seemed so childish, but now that I'm a mother, I think I can give her a little (but certainly, not a lot) more credit.

Also, at church we are studying the first year of Jesus' ministry and calling it "Obscurity."  So our new testament study is lining up nicely.

#1.  Love God.  Forever in progress.