Fall is a great time of year. Mild weather, beautiful foliage in pale yellow, vibrant russet and jack-o-lantern orange soon followed by the crunch of leaves underfoot ; the first taste of hot apple cider, and Pumpkin Lattes; a trip to pick apples and baking apple pies immediately thereafter; the joy of picking and decorating pumpkins, a great Trunk-Or-Treat event on our church lot; Football season and bonfires-it's all so magical to me.
Autumn is also the time when many families settle into more structured routines as school begins again. Be you a student or the parent of a student, it is a time for letting go of the relaxed schedules of summer. If you have no students in your home, and the need for buying school supplies for your household has long passed, the idea of the new school year can still old something tied to our childhoods, in the renewed desire to learn and grow. It just seems like the right time, doesn't it?
As I type this I have a learning goal in mind for the women of The Word At Shaw. So many of us learn better on a deadline. I think it hearkens back to when we were in school and a bouquet of sharpened pencils would have been a perfect gift. As an adult I've noticed that If I sign up for a fitness event, the looming deadline does more for the consistency of my workout than purely wanting to be more physically fit. I've talked with many girlfriends who agree. One such friend has a hash-tag entitled, "running on a deadline"" because signing up for a half-marathon this fall has her feeling the workout consistency.
That said, I would love it if each of us could commit to reading two verses per week-day in our bibles, beginning on Monday, September fifth and ending on Friday, October twenty-eighth.
That is forty days of reading two verses per each Monday-Friday (weekends off), for a total of eighty verses.
I'm not asking you to memorize; just read. Make a note of verses you read which speak to you, or are most pertinent in your life. In fact, feel free to post some of your favorite verses into the comments section of this blog. Also, please post in comments that you plan to do the verse challenge.
I will be doing the verse challenge too, and am looking forward to sharing what I find in my reading, and even more so, learning what you find in yours.
Blessings, Lorilise Scarborough
