Daily Reading

My previous church emails the scriptures daily. What a great idea!! If you're interested, click here. You can still catch up :-)
January
Program 2

Date -Old Testament Reading -New Testament Reading -Gospel Reading

January 1 Genesis 1,2 Matthew 1 Mark 1
January 2 Genesis 3,4,5 Matthew 2 Mark 2
January 3 Genesis 6,7,8 Matthew 3 Mark 3
January 4 Genesis 9,10,11 Matthew 4 Mark 4
January 5 Genesis 12,13,14 Matthew 5:1-26 Mark 5
January 6 Genesis 15,16,17 Matthew 5:27-48 Mark 6
January 7 Genesis 18,19 Matthew 6 Mark 7
January 8 Genesis 20,21,22 Matthew 7 Mark 8
January 9 Genesis 23,24 Matthew 8 Mark 9
January 10 Genesis 25,26 Matthew 9:1-17 Mark 10
January 11 Genesis 27,28 Matthew 9:18-38 Mark 11
January 12 Genesis 29,30 Matthew 10:1-23 Mark 12
January 13 Genesis 31,32 Matthew 10:24-42 Mark 13
January 14 Genesis 33,34,35 Matthew 11 Mark 14
January 15 Genesis 36,37 Matthew 12:1-21 Mark 15
January 16 Genesis 38,39,40 Matthew 12:22-50 Mark 16
January 17 Genesis 41 Matthew 13:1-32 Luke 1
January 18 Genesis 42,43 Matthew 13:33-58 Luke 2
January 19 Genesis 44,45 Matthew 14:1-21 Luke 3
January 20 Genesis 46,47,48 Matthew 14:22-36 Luke 4
January 21 Genesis 49,50 Matthew 15:1-20 Luke 5
January 22 Exodus 1,2,3 Matthew 15:21-39 Luke 6
January 23 Exodus 4,5,6 Matthew 16 Luke 7
January 24 Exodus 7,8 Matthew 17 Luke 8
January 25 Exodus 9,10 Matthew 18:1-20 Luke 9
January 26 Exodus 11,12 Matthew 18:21-35 Luke 10
January 27 Exodus 13,14,15 Matthew 19:1-15 Luke 11
January 28 Exodus 16,17,18 Matthew 19:16-30 Luke 12
January 29 Exodus 19,20,21 Matthew 20:1-16 Luke 13
January 30 Exodus 22,23,24 Matthew 20:17-34 Luke 14
January 31 Exodus 25,26 Matthew 21:1-22 Luke 15

Also found this very thought provoking poem on a blog. It could describe any life experience:

WELCOME TO HOLLAND
by
Emily Perl Kingsley.

c1987 by Emily Perl Kingsley. All rights reserved

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."

But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."

And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.

But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.