Snowing, large flakes coming down, not really sticking – at least not yet, but it is reminding us how pretty snow is, and  that it is winter and to be expected.

No wind, unusual for us, it is coming straight down and very softly.  Cats are sitting in windows watching and probably thankful they are hunkered in a warm place.

Carla is supposed to have Wed through Fri off, but they are getting two trucks in tomorrow – a mix up at the warehouse – so she may get called in.

Doesn’t make much difference to us, we don’t go out on New Year’s eve – and usually she stays up to welcome the new year – I figure it will be there in the morning so go to bed.

She will be home in plenty of time.  It will be the first time she has had the first off in years.  So, she will have to put up with the football games on television.  We will just do a tray of meat and cheese and veggies to eat during the day, none of us have to busy ourselves.

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Are you making New Year’s resolution and including reading the Bible through in 2016?

May I make a suggestion, because even if, like me, you have made that resolution but failed in the past to doing this (not as a substitution for devotions and meditations, but as a desire to read the Bible) I can tell you what has helped me.

For several years I determined to read through the Bible from Geneses to Revelation.  Sometimes I was able to keep on track for a couple of months – but most of the time I faltered, couldn’t catch back up and gave up.

A few years back I discovered Biblegateway.com with a number of devotions and several read through the Bible in a year reading plans.

I know there are some others out there, but this is the one I use and it works for me.  Using these plans it only takes about 10 to 15 minutes a day to read the daily posts that let you read the entire Bible in a year.  With this plan I have read through the Bible, in a year, at least 4 or 5 years, now; and will continue doing so.

You can even get an audio version on some of them.  I have always read the Bible, but I found that most of the time I went to certain books and there are some books I never read – and I never heard any preaching on them.  There are some real gems of wisdom in those books and they augment and expand what we learn in other books of the Bible.

It is just one more way of listening to what God says and growing in Him as we read all of His Word.

Later, Art :-)

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