I love to read! As a kid growing up in the summer I could be found in the library as often as in the swimming pool which happened to be conveniently located in the same community center !!! How simple was that…
I enjoy fiction and read many different genres, from murder mysteries to slapstick geriatric crime stoppers. Books for me are an escape, I might be in India with the greatest detective agency money can buy trying to figure out who kidnapped the Maharajah’s daughter or I am in New Jersey with the worst bounty hunter known to man, her gun toting grandma and ex-prostitute sidekick Lulu.
There are books for learning, growing, gardening, cooking or for more of an in depth look we have biographies or simply a coffee table book full of beautiful pictures and places of interest to enjoy or possibly use to plan your next vacation. I venture to say there’s a book out there for everyone and the first one that comes to mind is the Bible…
BIBLE…Basic. Instruction. Before. Leaving. Earth!!!
Boring!!! The bible is boring, it’s just a bunch of thee’s and thy’s and thou’s … God telling you everything you can’t do anymore…Yah, I don’t think so…Hmmmmm, maybe but have you given it a chance? You might be surprised…
Do you enjoy historical romance or war stories? King Authur, Guinevere and Merlin…the bible has armor, swords, battles, sweat, betrayal…look up Samson or David and Goliath to name a couple.
There’s a king who fell in lust for a beautiful woman and had her husband sent to the front lines of a raging battle, you can guess where that went and ended up. There is jealousy, deceit, trickery, included is great wisdom as tho Archimedes were setting on your shoulder. There’s magic and sorcery; miracles and phenomenons… earthquakes, great floods and even giant burning rocks of sulfur thrown down from the heavens as Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed by fire.
The greatest story ever told is written in the Bible…The 4 gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These four disciples each wrote of their encounter and walk beside Jesus. In these 4 books contained within the 73 books within the One Big Book you will meet, encounter and begin your walk with Jesus also…
There’s a spirit within the pages of the bible that come alive when you crack open that binder, breathe in the smell of the paper and let his words engulf and transform you. There are stories within stories to get lost in and it’s the greatest chronicle of love ever written.
I challenge you today, pick up your Bible…go to the concordance in the back and look up a word and follow it to readings…if you don’t have a bible please message me and I will see that you receive one…I hope I’ve piqued your curiosity. Go take a look there are a lot of great characters in the Bible just waiting to meet you…Have a blessed day and happy reading! Thank You for joining me. 🥰
Sunshine On My Shoulder 