No, I haven’t fallen off the edge of the earth. I realize that it has been way too long since I have written. No excuses. It was summer, what can I say? I’ve hiked in the Smokies, I’ve run in weather too hot to breathe in humid Memphis, I’ve walked the crowded streets of New York, I’ve seen 17 black bears in the wild, too many deer to count, and watched as my husband glanced backwards at me and barely missed stepping on a rattling rattle snake three miles out on a trail run. I was appropriately speechless.
Hope that your summer was grand. Here in the South, school has been in session for more than a week (always the hottest week of the summer), and we are only in mid-August. Back to the books.
Actually for many of us, it should be back to the Book. Summer time schedules can be ruthless in breaking up routine and stomping it flat. But all is not lost. Carve out that niche of daily Bible reading once again. Hold tight and dig deep. I realize that trudging through the names and numbers and census counts in Numbers, Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah seems like TMI – too much information – but it is in those details that the Bible asserts its authenticity. No one would make that stuff up. These are real names, real genealogies, real places, and a lot of people, not just a nomadic tribe of a few scruffy-looking individuals. Walk right through the midst of that very significant reality. Therein lies much truth. I’d love to hear what you are learning.
For whatever was written in former days
was written for our instruction,
that by steadfastness
and by the encouragement of the Scriptures,
we might have hope.
Romans 15.4
Press on, friends!
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