Hiya and welcome to my blog! Well, it’s not really a blog. It’s more of a Bible study, blog, journal, writing practice, counseling and research reporting hybrid. Let me explain.
Back in highschool (which seems like a lifetime ago now) I was an avid writer. Any time I was assigned a research paper, I would always max out the requirements. Instead of settling on 3 pages double-spaced with a 14 size font, I would pull out my handy dandy tricks. Frequently, I would run through the paper and change the size to 12, 1.5 spaces, or move the period sizes down as small as I could without it being noticeable. I guess you could say I’ve always had quite the blabber mouth.
Well, one day the annoying girl with the long reports went to college. There, I discovered a little class called Survey of the New Testament and I was hooked. As a budding Christian and research addict, I loved being presented with difficult questions and being let loose on the Scripture to find the answer. Sometimes those answers were unsatisfying and grey, but every once in a while, it felt like a lightbulb went off in my head. It was a feeling of extreme satisfaction to feel like I had dug deep and found a gem within Scripture.
Eventually the class ended and I went on with my life, but the love for that type of heavy research never left. I frequently found myself telling others about how I wished I could take another class like that and I felt my desire to go to seminary grow and grow. I would search harder and harder for answers to questions big and small and found myself irritated whenever I felt like I wasn’t learning enough. I was truly addicted to the Word. As God would have it, I had two children very young and seminary was just not in the cards. But that’s where the idea for Adalia came in.
See, eventually I became so frustrated that I all but gave up. I did private Bible studies and discussed what I learned with my mom, but that still wasn’t making me happy. To make matters worse, COVID-19 came crashing into the South and ruined my opportunities to go to church. It was then that I went from being in a rut to downright backsliding. And here I am today.
So instead of allowing myself to backslide, I am making decision. I am going to rededicate myself to doing another Bible In A Year challenge and this time, I’m going to blog it all. SOAP every chapter, if you will. I pray that this experience will both bring me back to God’s presence, teach me about the Word and myself, and allow me to regain the passion I once had. Let’s get started, shall we?
Because I just recently finished my first full read of the OT, I’ll be starting in the NT. Without any further ado, let’s go!
Adalia 