A Temple Made Perfect

[Note: I originally wrote this in the fall of 2017, the first time I listened to the entire Bible in a year.]

Just get to the point, God!

I’ve been reading Ezekiel lately. And by “reading” I of course mean “listening to” because Mama Ain’t Got Time To Read. Most of the time I’m incredibly thankful for my audio Bible because it allows me to spend time in the Word of God during a stage of life when I otherwise wouldn’t. But there are times when the audio Bible starts to get inconvenient, and those times are mainly the sections of the Bible where I would totally skip over skim if I were actually reading it on paper. (Don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about! Show me someone who says they love it when they reach the third set of genealogies in Chronicles, and I’ll show you someone who’s breaking the 9th commandment.)

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Welcome to My Writings

Oh goody, another blog! Said no one ever.

A couple years ago, a good friend said to me, “You should really start a blog.” I responded with an extravagant eye roll and: “The world needs another white lady blog like it needs a hole in the head.”

This exchange tells you 2 things about me:

1 – I should really be nicer to my friends. Didn’t need to bite her head off, Steph!  She was trying to compliment and encourage you. A simple “thank you” would have sufficed.

2 – I’m under no delusion that my voice or my writing is crucial to society.

So why am I starting a blog when it’s at best a completely unnecessary hobby and at worst a vain exercise in self-glorification?

Short answer: Because I want to. I like writing.

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