A few years back, a priest told me that I should be carving out an hour of time in my day just for God. For scripture, for meditation, for prayer, for Him. An hour. Are you kidding me? As a pregnant mom with 3 little children, I told him it was just not realistic. I couldn't get 2 minutes to pee in peace let alone an hour?
The last time I "read" the bible seriously was about 9 years ago and I didn't get as far as I would have liked. It isn't that I don't want to… God has put that desire in my heart. It isn't that I don't think it is important… I long to know Christ through the scripture. I just don't seem to be able to consistently get it done. Laundry and lunches and spills and runny noses seem to trump The Good Book as it sits patiently, quietly, calling me. I know it is a failing in my discipline, but that knowledge doesn't seem to help me much.
So my new solution is...
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