setting off
The road ahead is unknown, clearly, but only to me - only to us. There is one who does know the road ahead, who knows the smooth downhill runs, the tight corners, the holes in the road, the slicks, the breakdowns, the beautiful vistas, the roads of rain and storm.
God.
He knows it cos he planned it.
So where is this particular part of my journey planning to be heading - along the road through the bible - each night I read the bible - I started 10th Jan 2004 and resolved to read every night and is so doing 365 days later end up having read the whole bible. Not cover to cover - I am not that sort of a traveller - no, I get bored of the one place easily and so I flit from place to place, person to person, book to book - I am following a reading plan outlined in the book - live like a jesus freak - when I read it I realised that I wanted to live a life more full on for God - and I knew that if I want to be on that journey then I needed to be close to God and to be close to God I need to be reading.
Up until now I have not missed a single night. Which surprises me - but when I started this journey I knew it would be a one day at a time journey and I asked God to help me - to help me to take the next step in the journey even when I didn't want to, even when I just took the step for the sake of taking the step - even when I didn't want to listen to God, let along speak with him.
And God has honoured my resolve by granting me YES to all those things - and so often I have found that when I do have a day when I set out on the next part of the journey reluctantly, hesitantly, like a dog sitting down and being dragged along - they have been the most special journey's of all.
So let's now set out together - I have been traveling dark paths in my journey of late - but I have decided to keep a travelogue, a diary of my journey through the bible and how it impacts on the bigger journey of my life.
God.
He knows it cos he planned it.
So where is this particular part of my journey planning to be heading - along the road through the bible - each night I read the bible - I started 10th Jan 2004 and resolved to read every night and is so doing 365 days later end up having read the whole bible. Not cover to cover - I am not that sort of a traveller - no, I get bored of the one place easily and so I flit from place to place, person to person, book to book - I am following a reading plan outlined in the book - live like a jesus freak - when I read it I realised that I wanted to live a life more full on for God - and I knew that if I want to be on that journey then I needed to be close to God and to be close to God I need to be reading.
Up until now I have not missed a single night. Which surprises me - but when I started this journey I knew it would be a one day at a time journey and I asked God to help me - to help me to take the next step in the journey even when I didn't want to, even when I just took the step for the sake of taking the step - even when I didn't want to listen to God, let along speak with him.
And God has honoured my resolve by granting me YES to all those things - and so often I have found that when I do have a day when I set out on the next part of the journey reluctantly, hesitantly, like a dog sitting down and being dragged along - they have been the most special journey's of all.
So let's now set out together - I have been traveling dark paths in my journey of late - but I have decided to keep a travelogue, a diary of my journey through the bible and how it impacts on the bigger journey of my life.
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