Listening

I've been used to read the Bible - usually in the NIV or Living Bible versions. They are easy to understand and I can read through the Bible in about 6 months if I apply myself. I have an NIV large print Bible that I bought in 1975. I've literally read the covers off of it and duct taped it back together.

No, I don't want a new one. I have tried more than once to use a different copy of the same book. My old one is the one I used to teach out of. It has notes and marks on almost every page. I'd have to go through a new version page by page and transfer all my notes.

For the last year and a half, I've tried something a little different.

Youtube has various versions of the Book in audio. I've been listening to the King James Version while I crochet prayer shawls for hospice. I might miss some things if my mind wanders or if my pattern requires that I count stitches more carefully than usual, but sometimes I pick up points that I'd never seen before. Then I go into my print version and do more studying on that section.

It's very interesting to see one thing and hear another. I'm learning things I'd not picked up on previously.

Try it sometime. Listen to someone read God's Word into your ears and see if a phrase or sentence doesn't pop out in a new way.

"Faith comes by hearing and hearing  by the Word of God." Romans 10:17

Exciting Times

Everyday I listen to what's happening in the world and look up, because my redemption draws near. (Luke 21:28)

Lately archaeological finds are catching my interest. Things that have been hidden - not just for centuries, but for millenia - are coming to light.

For so long, the tensions in the Middle East and Russia have prevented people from doing a proper search for Noah's Ark. I remember a couple of documentaries in the 1970's and 80's about possible finds, how the ark had split in half and partly slid down the mountain.

I even remember on of the grocery store junk papers proudly displaying the headline "Noah's Diaries Found". Seriously?! It's been 4000 years of hard weather on a mountain top. Unless it was enscribed on stone tablets like the Ten Commandments, it wouldn't have made it this long. Even then, stone crumbles after so long of enduring heat and cold.

Les found a very interesting video on Youtube and I just watched it. It shows a deep scan of a formation somewhere in the "mountains of Ararat". The nearest village is called The Village of the Eight. The scan shows cavities in the formation which are empty or mud-filled like rooms and the ship's ribs are easily picked out.

Is it Noah's Ark? A ship laid out on top of a mountain nowhere near any water? You decide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10diTOvszYU

May God bless us all.

Kathi