Life is Long. Read Your Bible.

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Life is Long. Read Your Bible.

Look—life is too long to not read and love the Bible. I said something to this effect to my hair stylist a few months ago, and she laughed and said, “Most people say life is too short.” And of course life is short and we are but a vapor, but I’m right, too—life is long. So very loooooooong. Scripture wouldn’t be overflowing with admonitions to be long-suffering and to persevere and to be steadfast if it weren’t.

So, this is my counsel to you, particularly when life feels very long: Read your Bible.

But here’s the problem—reading it makes you want to read it, so you often have to read before you want to read it. So if you are in the camp of people who want to want to, but don’t quite want to yet (do you get what I’m saying?), I have a few solutions to ease you in:

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The Bible Is a Story

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The Bible Is a Story

My elementary school music teacher loved strawberry pie. She craved it, she told us, until one fateful day when the last bite of a long-awaited slice was corrupted by a bad strawberry. The rotten taste shifted her life’s pie-eating trajectory, and years of bliss were negated by one wayward berry: She no longer craved strawberry pie. “That’s why the last note of a song is so important,” she said.

I can’t remember a thing about my elementary school music teacher, except that strawberry pie anecdote. I’m as concerned as you are that this story has been tucked away in the crevices of my brain for two decades. Why is it so easy for me to remember? Why am I able to respond so fully to the question, “Caroline, can you explain Mrs. McNatt’s aversion to strawberry pie?” yet the question, “What’s the equation of a line?” leaves me flummoxed and RIDDEN WITH SHAME?

Is this evidence that my high school education completely failed me? No, I think it’s less serious than that. 

I think our brains are designed for stories.

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6 Podcast Episodes for the Hungry Soul

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6 Podcast Episodes for the Hungry Soul

Anyone else feeling a little frazzled? A friend and I were commiserating recently that though it's such a luxury to have access to so much incredible content (especially the free stuff!), it's easy to get overwhelmed. Especially if you're a greedy little content gobbler like me. I WANT TO READ AND LISTEN TO EVERYTHING.

My love it when friends do the filtering for me by sharing their favorite Instagram posts, blog posts, articles, sermons, and podcast episodes. So this is me, being a friend, and sharing some of the favorite podcast episodes I've listened to in the past month. Each of these fed my soul in their own way, and I'm hoping they'll do the same for you.

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6 Podcasts for the Hungry Soul

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6 Podcasts for the Hungry Soul

Podcasts are my best friend (ACTUALLY, I AM CONVINCED THE PEOPLE ON THESE PODCASTS ARE MY ACTUAL BEST FRIENDS, RIGHT GUYS? LET'S HANG OUT SOON!). It's because my work as a stay-at-home mom demands a lot of my body but often not a lot of my mind. While I'm folding laundry or cooking dinner or burning dinner, it's so fun to be able to listen to edifying content that's less commitment than an audiobook (although I love a good audiobook and for the record, I also love commitment. HI LUKE! YOU'RE MY BOYFRIEND FOREVER!).

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