I'm into my third week of reading the Bible cover-to-cover. Our church has embarked on this journey together - to read the Bible in 90 days! I've tried reading the entire Bible before, but I've never made it past Deuteronomy. Today, I made it to Judges! This was just what I needed - accountability to the whole congregation, a Sunday class to discuss the readings each week, and a definite end date. So far, so good! It helps that it's winter, and that I have quiet afternoons to get the reading done. It takes me about 30-35 minutes each day to read approx. 12 pages. Some of the reading has been surprising, some of it a review, and some questions have been raised in my mind on certain days. It is stretching me, I'm growing in my faith, and I will be happy and thankful to have reached this goal in about 74 days!
Well, I sure don't get surprised very often, but Saturday night was a huge surprise to me! I thought I was heading to Hesston for an AGCO Christmas Dinner with Chelan. He told me we needed to drop something off at Ben and Tina's house (my cousin), first. Okay, no big deal! While we were there, Ben said they were about ready to go out for dinner, did we want to come along? Surprisingly, Chelan thought about it and wanted to do it (clue #1 that something was up). I kept saying that we couldn't skip out on his dinner, but Chelan insisted that going to Wichita for dinner would be much more fun. I even said, "This seems like something you had planned!" However, I'm always up for dinner in Wichita, so I agreed, reluctantly!! We enjoyed a meal at Hangar 1 Steakhouse and I thought that was the end of it. But, on the way home, Chelan asked if we could go by the new arena since the inaugural concert was there that night -- Brad Paisley! I thought it would be f...
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