Lagging Behind.....

You know, I had been doing SO well. 

I was totally committed to "Reading the Bible in 365 Days" and never missed a day.

I hit 201 days....... and missed 202.  By about 10 minutes.  By the time I was ready to read, it was past midnight and I missed the count for the day.

That was when we still lived on 550S.  But something deflated in me after that and I just haven't been able to stick with it.

Now granted, I have accessed the YouVersion app for 60 days straight since then.  But I haven't read the daily devotion and scriptures.

Why?

I just don't know.

We didn't have the internet so I couldn't read the three passages from the Bible on my iPad without internet connection.  I could on my phone, but it was just hard to do.  Then I remembered that I had my Bible close by, not packed away in a box, so I used it to read the scriptures and checked them off on my phone after I finished.

But still I got behind.

There have been days when I have just been too tired to read.  My eyes won't focus.  My mind is just tired.  I am physically exhausted.

So the Bible reading has gone by the wayside.

Not only that, but I started a new OBS with Proverbs 31 and I can't keep up with that either.

For some reason the chapters just seem so repetitive of books I have studied before.  Nothing really new, just the same things said in a different way by a different author.

I even volunteered to be in charge of the Take a Break Tuesday prompt for our private Facebook group with the OBS, thinking that would force me to be more involved.

Wrong.

I have read two chapters of the book.  I am using the leader's suggestions for the prompts I have done, and they must not be too interesting because NO ONE has responded to them.

Talk about being discouraged.

I need to go now.  I am reading Day 261 right now.  The title of the devotional is "God is Nice and He Likes You."  I had to smile as I read through the opening paragraphs because once again, there was a reminder of Mom.  She always told us that God would be so mad at us for our behavior, that He was disappointed in us, and we were such bad girls that how could we even show our faces in church. One of her favorite lines was "And you call yourself a Christian?" as she snarled insults at us.  Today's passages explain how much God loves all of us, He is good to us, and we are His precious children.  So different from what Mom threw at us. 

Have to get busy with my reading because .... I don't want to be 11 days behind!