Lately, I've been away from scriptures but longing for Jesus feeling that he above all else must be at the center. So I've decided to get back on the Bible memorization horse. My senior year of college, I memorized Phillipians with my roommate and haven't really gotten back to memorizing since then. I started Mark after college but didn't really get anywhere. So I'm going back to Mark and again using the
suggestions from the pastor of the church I attended in college. At three verses a day, six days a week, with a 10% slush fund as the pastor suggested, I should finish memorizing the book of Mark around my 31st birthday.
So feel free to ask me where I'm at but be careful because if you ask me next spring, you will hopefully need to be prepared for a l-o-n-g recitation. If you want to join me, that'd be all the cooler.
Also, I'm working my way through the couch to 5K running program which I started in late May. Technically, I should have completed it already, but it's been hard to work around the mini's schedule. Nevertheless, I'm on "week 7" running 25 minutes continuously. Given that I'm lugging around an extra 20 pounds and was really out of shape with squishy post-pregnancy hips, I'm pretty pround of my progress.
Feel free to ask me how that's going too. My goal is to get out of the house and run 3 times a week. I let going out of town last week throw me off, but I'm determined to get back to it.
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It's great to hear that you are still running. Let's shoot for Virginia Beach 1/2 in 2010, and see if we can get all you East Coast folk back!
inspiring, to both of these pursuits! I remember Piper also writing about how to memorize scripture in his book When I Don't Desire God...see p119-123 and especially page 122 ("How Do You Memorize A Whole Book?"). The book's available for free online, though he also has a few other thought pieces about the topic on his main web site. It's similar advice to your pastor's, I think...I always got flubbed up on the repeating yesterday's verses bit, which I guess is key to contiguous memorization of verses. happy going!
lol! Okay, upon a brief reread I realized the two texts are similar because Piper actually quotes from Davis. :P but there's still additional Piper adds to it too, I think. good stuff.