Last month, I invited you to consider memorizing the epistle of First John with me this year.
I know this is a stretch, even a reach, for many of you: a whole book of the Bible? (Gulp.) But I’m here to say that if I can do it, anyone can.
Last year my friend Susan made me a booklet with my memory work pasted onto each page. I can’t do that for you, but I have made a template you can download, print, and cut and paste into your own little notebook. We’ll be memorizing no more than four verses each week, and just three most weeks, with a few review/catch-up weeks thrown in for good measure, which means we’ll have all 105 verses of 1 John memorized by mid-October.
If that sounds daunting, it is.
But it’s also completely do-able, one verse at a time.
For those of you who are game, here’s the template. And here’s a cheat sheet to help you with your memory work (okay, so it’s not really a cheat sheet; it’s a helpful hints sheet, but that only alliterates; I wanted to rhyme).
If you’d like to join the fun (and yes, it really is fun…some of the time…), and you haven’t already left a comment or sent me an email, please do so: I’ll be sending out monthly emails to encourage and exhort you to keep up the memory work. And you’ll be holding me accountable to doing the work as well.
Let the reaching begin.
I am nearly ready to raise my hand. Keep up the “It’s fun!” “It’s easy, or at least do-able.” You just might convince me, but over the summer?!?! My routines go out the window in the summer. Ugh.
Oddly enough, “105 verses” sounds less intimidating than “the whole book of 1st John.” Maybe because of the thousands of things I had to memorize last year in anatomy and neuro. Ok…I’ve downloaded the template and the tips. Scary.
I think I want to join! Sorry I am just now getting caught up on blogs, I was busy having a baby this past week 🙂 but I now have lots of breast feeding time on my hands so if I am not too late I want to join you!
Last year, I memorized about half of the book of Colossians, using Scripture Typer and the first-letter method. Sadly — about mid-way through the year and the Scriptures — I gave up. No excuse, really. I just gave me. Got “busy.”
Your effort here is getting into me. Maybe I should phrase it this way: The Spirit is getting into me, through your words.
Kimberlee! Thank you SO much for doing this! After some prayer and good conversation, we have decided that Dan and I are going to do it together! We are definitely in! I am very grateful for the accountability piece as this will be the first memorization of scripture in a long time. Thank you again.