Callahan WordWork

 If you read the last post in this series, hopefully you are committed to dwelling in the selected text in order to hear what it has to say. This post will give you some techniques and strategies for that process. Here we go! 1. Read aloud/ use an audio Bible.  When the Bible was written, nobody could afford to have a copy of it. Books were extremely expensive because everything had to be hand copied. Therefore, the Scriptures were written to be heard in a public reading rather than read silently. The Bible is for our ears. That means that when we only read it silently, we are likely to miss some of what is there. Luckily for us, there are tons of great audio Bible resources out there to listen to (I use an app called Dwell. It requires a paid subscription, but it has a ton of useful features that free resources don't have, and paying the subscription motivates me to use it), and most of us are able to read aloud. I find that hearing the passage helps me notice repetition, emp...

My wife Hannah and I are differentiated by a few guiding paradigms, which I call our Great Divides. They are unshared goals or values that often, if not always, come into conflict with one another. So far we have discovered two pairs of dueling desires (I suspect there are more to come), but the Divide featured in this story is Adventure vs. Comfort.  My desire for and attraction to adventure interrupts Hannah’s pursuit of comfort daily but never is it more prominent than when we are deciding what to do in our free time. So, naturally, they are almost always jockeying for position when we are on vacation, and our recent road trip to Oregon was no exception. We were staying with good friends of ours in Roseburg. As they were planning to leave for their own vacation on a Thursday morning, Hannah and I decided to camp in the nearby Umpqua National Forest for the remaining two nights of our excursion.  Our Thursday night campsite was located on Highway 138, the main drag through t...