I have loved Scripture as long as I can remember. When I was in second grade I got the notion to read the whole Bible straight through-in the King James Version. I made it to Leviticus before I threw in the towel.
By the time my kids were grown I had read and studied Scripture for decades.
But three years before Dominic ran ahead to Heaven I realized my reading had become rote-I felt like I “knew” all the stories. So I slowed my study to a crawl-only one chapter a day-and I usually copied the whole chapter plus my notes into a journal. I had just finished this time through the Bible in January before Dom was killed in April.
And all that truth stored in my mind and heart was what I “read” for months when my eyes were too full of tears to see print on a page.
Read the rest here: https://thelifeididntchoose.com/2017/10/16/trust-after-loss-access-the-truth/
Your Bible reading story is very similar to mine. I, too, had to learn to slow down. I also had to take a break for a few years to shake all the rote answers out of my head.
Thank you for sharing your story so powerfully.
dw
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