This weekend I made little progress on my completion of Numbers and how I wish I would complete Numbers. I have to admit that it is not my favorite. The Isrealites are frusterating to say the least.
This weekend was spent with my husbands family. Well just the women of his family. His Aunts, girl cousins, mother and sisters. We had a girls weekend at his Grandfathers Lake house. His grandfather passed away a year ago this week and as I have mentioned before he was influencial in my decision to read the bible. I was happy to go to his house and spend the weekend with such wonderful company. My husbands family is quite well versed in the bible and so I was thrilled to be able to have a little bible discussion during the weekend. Even though I didn't get much progress on my assigned readings I did make progress in other ways. I found 3 old bible's at the house. One of the bibles was a gift from Grandpa to Grandma. It was well worn with lots of writing in it and notes tucked inside. These are the types of treasures that I love. I love bibles that feel alive when you touch them. The one's that feel like a part of that person is tied in with the binding. I was in awe at this bible. I loved that he had written in it to her. He wrote God loves you and so do I. It was adorable. I can only imagine what this meant to her.
I'm not sure if others love and appreciate books as much as I do. I love books, old books, books with character and now that I have discovered bibles and their character I love them the most!
This is like stumbling across a piece of history that is so personal and fragile that you are almost afraid to turn the pages but you are so excited to see what verse they loved and underlined on the next page.
I spent an hour or two writing down some of my husbands grandmothers favorite verses and quotes from her bible. I wrote them into my bible and can't wait to share them with my husband.
During my weekend I looked at the bibles of his aunts and cousins. They are well worn with versus underlined, notes from their children and church bulletins stuck inside. These are personal and treasured items. They are priceless. As our weekend was priceless to me. I did discover they had and loved a bible that I hadn't seen before. It is the Life Application Bible. This has very interesting summaries, book information and references that help to understand different parts. On our shopping day I nearly purchased a Life Application Bible of my own but I resisted. I could hear my husband saying..."Honey, I know this sounds horrible but you probably should stop buying so many bibles and be sure that you will be able to read the one's you have." It stems back to my book addiction. That's what I'm blaming it on anyway.
Well anyway I resisted buying the bible. Partially because of my sweet husbands reasonable words and partially because they didn't have the New American Standard Version of the Life Application Bible which is really what I wanted. I don't have any bibles of the New American Standard and thought it would be a nice addition to my collection.
Well maybe someday I will get a Life Application Bible....who knows. Until then I will keep plugging away on my two favorite bibles The Archaeological Bible and The Chronological Study Bible.
Numbers is a hard book for me as well to read. Keeping track of all those people and some of the names I can not even pronounce! What is shows me is however is just how much God cares for the details. The details of our every day life. Because of that I pay more attention when someone at church wants to start a new program. I wonder what God would think of the new program and how it fits in with his master plan. Keep reading, keep reaching, keep growing in His love.
ReplyDeleteThis may be a silly question but are you one of those people who actually writes in your Bible or do you have notebook after notebook of notes like me?
ReplyDeleteIs the New American Standard Version (NASV) the same as the New American Standard Bible (NASB)?
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