Introduction

About a year ago I created the title and was planning some of my postings for this blog.  I was going to start once the children were back in school last year.  My idea for the blog was to encourage those that barely knew the Bible to start reading.  I was going to start with Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  I was coming up with additional ideas for posts and then...

2012 started off with my very dear friend Amy passing on.  She had been sick for a little over a month, but I didn't realize how sick she actually was.  Because Amy was so young, I thought she was going to get better.  It is one of those things that I don't understand, but I know it isn't for me to question God.  So I gather strength and take the steps of living without my dear friend.

Through Amy some new seeds were planted.  I have gotten to know her family better and with some people that I already knew I have become friends.  Her father-in-law and I had some conversations on the Bible and he suggested I read the book of Revelation backwards.  It does give  a new and different perspective when you read the books of the Bible backwards.  So I read Revelation starting with Chapter 22 and then took it to the next step and read Jude, 3 John, 2 John, 1 John Chapter 5 - 1 and so on up to Luke.  I'm still reading Luke.  Last month I was thinking about Amy and how she loved the book of Matthew.  I wasn't sure where I would be by the end of the year, but I decided that I am going to stop wherever I am and start the new year reading the Book of Matthew in memory of Amy.  I'm not sure why Matthew was her favorite book.  I am sure Amy and I talked about it and just as surely I am sure I forgot.  I know I had wanted to ask her again why that was her favorite but suddenly she was no longer here to have our little chats and garner nuggets of wisdom. 

Will you join me?  Will you start January 1 reading Matthew 1?  I hope so.  I invite you to come back and visit this blog for encouragement, and sharing.  God's is Love.  So with this in mind, lets be loving and forgiving toward one another.

See you again January 1.  In the meantime please pray for my friend Amy's family including her 10, 11 and 21 year old children, her husband, mother, brother and extended family.  Pleases pray for the families in Connecticut and for our nation.  We need healing in our nation.  I try and pray each day for God to heal our country, to heal the broken hearted and with this remind myself to forgive others, to love others and certainly to not hold grievances and be bitter.  We need lots and lots of loving.
 Smiles!