Reading Through the Bible

On Feb 18, 2009, we finished reading through the Bible! Aren't we quick readers? We started January 1 (2007).

Ok, so it took us over two years to read through the Bible together. We were on track to finish in less than two years until I misplaced the Bible and the reading schedule during our move in November. Since it was a reading schedule that already jumped around in the Bible (blended reading plan) and we had jumped around in the reading schedule, we weren't able to make a guess where we were and finish it, so had to wait for the unpacking to find it again before we could finish that schedule.

Since then, we've tracked down the chronological Bible I received from my church for eighth grade commencement. The Bible is divided into readings to read through it in a year. We are about 12 days readings into that. It's not looking like we'll make it through by the end of the year or probably even within a year, with as many days as we seem to miss, but we do keep working at it.

Down In The Valley

C sent me this beautiful song today. 1) I want to crow about how wonderful C is, and 2) this is a really nice song. She got it from a book of old folk songs gathered together by a Dr. Gainer. We found out about it while at the WV State Folk Festival.



Yes, it's possibly a copyright violation to publicly post this page, but it's only one page, and the book has been long out of print.

Anniversary

It was one year ago (May 18) on a Thursday evening that Jesse waited out the talkers in the clogging barn, wrestled down his nervousness, and asked me to spend the rest of my life with him! :)

A few weeks ago, I picked up a book on the World's Greatest Proposals. The book is filled with proposals over romantic dinners, as part of suprise weekend get-aways, and even one where the guy pretended to get himself arrested. As I read the many different proposals, I realized that as romantic or grand as some of them may have been, I wouldn't have traded a single one of them for mine.