2 Big Goals for 2009

First Goal: read through the Bible this year

Our church, Lutheran Church of Hope, always has a yearly overriding theme that the sermons and mission projects revolve around. This year the plan is to read through the bible in a year. Our church went through this several years ago, but it wasn’t the right time for me. I believe I was pregnant with Lucy and was busy chasing 18 month old Megan around. I tried to start, fell behind after the first week and pretty much lost motivation after that.

This year, will be different! I want to figure out a way to make this into a family affair. Hope is offering a small group study for adults, but am in search of a way I can tie all of this together with our kids. I found a children’s Bible that has a 5-7 minute passage to read aloud with the girls at night. If I make it part of our nightly routine, it will become more meaningful for them as they hear the same readings at church. Lucy and Megan are at the right ages where if they sit through church I feel like they are somewhat internalizing some of the message. I am excited to give this a try.

I do have to say that I started reading to the girls a few nights ago and it did not turn out to be a brief 5-7 minute reading as planned. The Bible readings were on creation and question after question popped up. "If God created everything, then who created God?" "Why did he make the snake in the Garden on Eden be evil?" "Was God alive with the dinosaurs?"

Hmmm... so much for the fluffy stories of Noah parading his animals into the ark and Baby Jesus being born in a manger. I'll keep you posted on our progress. ;-)

You can read about my other 2009 goal here.