Diary Of My Bible

January

Wow, what a year this is going to be.

I'll spend quality time daily with just me

and my Bible. I have 365 days to get started

and I know I'm going to complete the Bible

this year. My New Year's Resolution.

(Yes, I'm new without blemish, no pages

soiled nor marked. I think thy like me all

new and fresh.)

February

This is the month for love and loving.

I must read how to love and be loving towards

even the unloving. (Yes, love...my owner just

loves to look at me and pass me by unless

there's a quarrel and a reason to look inside.)

March

With Winter passing and Spring in the air

I must read a few pages to fill my spirits need

for being cheerful as the birds start their singing.

(Spring, Yes... they just spring from their bed

look over and see that I'm still there without a

leaf of my book being turned. They said,

"it was Spring", but they treat me like I'm Fall

and falling away from their mind.)

April

Daylight Savings Time is here and I'll have

more daylight to stay awake and read without

becoming sleepy. (Sleepy is exactly how I'm

treated. Like given a sedative and just waiting

for it to wear off. Company comes by, Easter is

in the mist, and my pages get turned to the

Resurrection of The Savior.

Do they notice I need to be read?)

May

I find some comforting words of praise, I think

I'll tuck them right into my Bible. That's always

a good place for memories. (Ouch! Doesn't

anyone realize that I'm not a storage chest

for safe keeping, but my words need to be

placed upon their heart, and that's the safest

spot, never to vanish, tarnish, nor taken away.)

June

Graduations and Weddings, I just know there's

something about marriages within these pages

and new beginnings for the graduates.

(Here they go again, announcements, thank you

notes, do they even care to check me out and

know that I'm filled with valuable information

for unity, bonding, joining together of

man and women?)

July

Vacation, Camp, away from home for a week

or so. I must take my Bible for I know I'll find

time to read and memorize what I set my goals

for in January. (The old suitcase trick... yes,

I somehow got lost in the shuffle and I'm on

vacation, but I've been on vacation all

year thus far.)

August

I can't find my Bible...

Has any one of you noticed it?

Well, I know the last time I had it was...

Oh, yes, in July. I must check the suitcase.

("Get me out of here!" and they say I'll be read..

They can't even remember leaving me hidden...

still on vacation.)

September

School, back to basics. I plan to get into a

Bible Study soon as school starts and I'll have

a real reason to read. (No! Not again,

Schoolbooks and papers hide my cover,

STOP!

They'll never find me. Maybe I'll drop

to the floor and get noticed.)

October

Fall is in the air, maybe I'll sit and read

some of Proverbs. It's been said that a chapter

a day and I could finish within the month.

That's good! (I get picked up, pages turn and

there's a breeze against their face. Suddenly, something catches their eye. Was it a picture,

or a few words that filled their longing?

Well, whatever... I got read.)

November

Thanksgiving. A time to be Thankful for

what the Lord has done, and what He will do.

We have dinner at my place this year.

I'm going to read a real Thanksgiving.

The Thanks for Jesus' Birth.

(Lookout, someone is really going to gather

some scripture and announce my being. I'm

going to be held in the palm of someone's hands.

I'm going to really be noticed. Will anyone

want to investigate my contents?)

December

Christmas and remembrance of the

True meaning.

I must open to the Birth of Jesus and the

coming of the King's. I pause and think how awesome God is to do so much when I've

given so little. How He came empty and

how He accepts my emptiness and me.

A loving, unselfish, comforter in all things.

(Under the tree I go. Same old, same old..

Some how I get lost within the trimmings, the

presents, the songs, the glitter... they fail to

know the really true present is what they

cannot see, and that the words upon my

pages is the light at the top of their tree.)