Hiding Psalm 27 in My Heart

Photo Credit:  Jody Ohlsen Collins--used by permission

Happy Sabbath Everyone!

I hope you are having a chance to rest and spend some time with God today.  I love the Sabbath!  It is, in my opinion, the very very best day of the week.  A time we can say STOP to our crazy-busy lives, a pause in time, a weekly holiday with our Creator and Redeemer.  And we don't have to feel guilty about not doing or working during these sacred hours, because our Creator actually TELLS us to pause and rest.  He tells us the most important thing we can DO is to BE with Him--it is not an achievement we must strive harder and better for.  He just wants to spend time with us--because He loves us.  Breathe.  In.  Out.  In.  Out.  Sigh. . . Can't you just FEEL the stress of the week start to depart?

Anyway, I wanted to take a moment and tell you all about the new memory challenge I am participating in.  It actually started this past Monday, so I am a bit late in sharing about it, but it is still not to late to join us if you would like to!  :)

We will be memorizing Psalm 27--the whole chapter, but it is not too long and our pace will be a very doable one verse a week.  We will even be taking off for Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks, since often we are so busy with extra activities during those times.  Anyway, so even though this first week is already over, it would be super easy to hop in and join us--and I promise that you will be blessed!

If you are at all intrigued, hop over to the Do Not Depart site and read all about it.  You can find the link here: Memorize Psalm 27
Also at that link you can find free resources to print off and help you in memorizing.  I have especially been helped by the first letter helps.  I like to print out the chapter I am working on, and then print out the first letter helps, and then glue them back to back with glue stick.  Then I run them through my little laminator--this is not necessary, but is only because my background is teaching and I can't help myself.  I love laminating things! ;)  Anyway, that copy I can carry around and ask my daughter to quiz me sometimes--I turn the sheet with the first letter helps on my side, and the full chapter on her side, and she checks me as I recite my verses.  I also laminate the chapter and post it in my shower, then laminate the first letter helps and post those on the opposite shower wall.  I have found this as a good way to review myself every day when I am getting clean.  Soap washes on the outside--God's Word washes on the inside! ;)  You would be amazed at how much you can learn just reviewing each day in the shower!  And I am going to be standing in the shower anyway, I might as well make good use of the time!

Well, that's it for this little invitation.  Go read all about it at the link I gave you--it really won't be as hard as you think, and I promise you will be super blessed!  Don't worry about whether you can finish the entire chapter or not.  Each verse of God's Word that is hidden in your heart will be a blessing--so I hope you will consider joining me! :)

~Susan