Today is Day 14 of the Bible in a Year (you can tell because it’s the 14th – this is pretty easy in January!) so it’s ‘break time’ and therefore accountability time too. I’m up to date at the moment. I fell behind by a chapter at one point but caught up on the toilet. Too much information? I was going to tell you about Monday when we had the plasterer in. I needed a No 2 but the plasterer was doing the room next to the toilet and I just can’t go under that pressure. What? Oh. Sorry. I’ll move on. Psalm 2 today.

I’ve just reached the end of Genesis 40 and have started the story of Joseph in Egypt. The beginning of the build up to the Exodus really.

The main thing I’ve noticed through this lot of readings (apart from how badly the readings are distributed – Genesis 27 to 31 in one sitting was tough!) is that there are a lot of messed up things going on at the ‘beginning of time’! So many times people seem to take things into their own hands to try and sort things out. And there are so many repeated mistakes too – people don’t seem to learn from their mistakes. People keep pretending their wives are their sisters or decide to sleep with servants so they have offspring and all that. The book seems to be about messed up family really. God still works through them and blesses them though. Interesting. Sometimes I get the impression that God’s there blessing people but shaking his head in dispair at the same time.

Nothing too deep or serious this time. But one thing I would like to point to is a book my sister lent me called “God’s Big Picture” – it’s by Vaughan Roberts and is a great introduction to the narrative that runs through the Bible. It has been great to start reading it alongside starting out on the Bible in a year. I’m pretty sure God’s Big Picture won’t take me a year to read as it’s “a good size for a book” but I am also sure it will be helpful to keep the overall picture in sight, especially as I move into the sections of the Bible that may not be so interesting to read.

Anyhoo – first real challenge this week as we’re on the Yardley Family Christmas this weekend – changes to routine (however good!) are usually what get me on the whole bible reading discipline type thing. I’ll keep you posted.

And one more thing – Ali (see earlier post) posted something pretty cool the other day – it’s about a project called Postsecret – I won’t go into the details here but do check out his post.