My second article for the magazine (as I mentioned, I believe) is coming together quite nicely. Yesterday I drove about 30 miles doing two interviews and getting it all down on my handy Sony voice recorder. (While still nerve-wracking, little by little it is getting easier, I think--this "being-a-professional-journalist-after-a-31-yearinterruption" thing.) I've been in touch with my contact at the magazine, getting further instructions, and today should start replaying the recorder, taking notes, getting quotes.
This all is doing wonders for my devotional life. This morning I've again been praying fervently and reading a smattering of scripture, including Daily Light on the Daily Path online. (Daily Light, by the way, was put together hundreds of years ago and strings together related verses in a brief morning and evening devotional format. I first became acquainted with it when attending a Christian boarding school in the southern U.S. For the evening "vesper" service they sometimes would read to us from the Daily Light in lieu of a sermon, naturally to our delight. It's another one of those items I used to look down upon--"they're taking too much scripture out of context"--but about which I now say, "Hey, sometimes you need to cut to the chase, get to the kernel, the meat, the nut, the center, the point, the gist, in a hurry, this being a spiritual emergency and all...") Nothing in particular jumped out today, but it was calming just to insert those words into my fevered consciousness.
I was musing today about starting one of those regimens whereby you read through the Bible in a year. Years ago I used to read the Bible front to back on a regular basis so that I knew my way around it much better than I do today. It became quite legalistic in the circles we were part of so I laid off it, but it could well be time to start again. When you've been reading scripture regularly, doing your best to "get something out of it," even when nothing particularly hits you at the time, it's got to be a good thing. ("Garbage in, garbage out" must also be true in reverse.)
This all is doing wonders for my devotional life. This morning I've again been praying fervently and reading a smattering of scripture, including Daily Light on the Daily Path online. (Daily Light, by the way, was put together hundreds of years ago and strings together related verses in a brief morning and evening devotional format. I first became acquainted with it when attending a Christian boarding school in the southern U.S. For the evening "vesper" service they sometimes would read to us from the Daily Light in lieu of a sermon, naturally to our delight. It's another one of those items I used to look down upon--"they're taking too much scripture out of context"--but about which I now say, "Hey, sometimes you need to cut to the chase, get to the kernel, the meat, the nut, the center, the point, the gist, in a hurry, this being a spiritual emergency and all...") Nothing in particular jumped out today, but it was calming just to insert those words into my fevered consciousness.
I was musing today about starting one of those regimens whereby you read through the Bible in a year. Years ago I used to read the Bible front to back on a regular basis so that I knew my way around it much better than I do today. It became quite legalistic in the circles we were part of so I laid off it, but it could well be time to start again. When you've been reading scripture regularly, doing your best to "get something out of it," even when nothing particularly hits you at the time, it's got to be a good thing. ("Garbage in, garbage out" must also be true in reverse.)
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