Bible Study Group

Happy summer! I am happy for it even though the bugs seem to love me this year. Thinking about all the sunshine and buzzing busyness has got me full off wide-awake energy. As most of you already know, we have bible study at my house, usually Sunday at 2. We use a template that Heather and Steve Routh taught us. The study guide formula goes like this. First we read a passage, say “John 3:16- For God so loved the world the He gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life, For God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world from him.” We would ask each other what we liked and didn’t like/found confusing. I would mention that I like how it says I wont perish but have eternal life, if I believe. Then, we would read the passage again, and discuss what the word teaches about people, and God. I would say, that the scripture teaches us that people need a loving God, and that we would perish without Him. It also taught me that God sent his son to save us. Then, we would read the passage a final time and ask ourselves how we will personally obey and who will I share what I’ve learned? My answer would be, I will obey by listening to God's word and by telling whoever will listen. So this is the basic outline of what we are doing at bible study. Sometimes we try and sing, and once in awhile I will cook something. Hope to see you here at my house, have a productive and busy summer!

Pope Vannoy

by Renae Zackar

Big bookshelves lined with big dusty illustrated encyclopedias.
Reading at a table made of lumber sawn from a spruce tree, sanded down to a shine, varnished smooth.
Sunshine through the window making the wood grain pattern golden.
Pipe tobacco sweet in the air.
Gardens outside with vegetables and a few flowers as a border.
Big fuzzy bumblebees flying back and forth.
A turnip pulled out of the soil, washed in one of the big rain barrels under the point in the roof.
Supposed to be a vegetable but sweet as fruit.
Big lazy cats basking in the sun in the middle of the dirt path,high on catnip.
Sun shining through the trees warming the mud puddles, squishy between the toes of bare feet.
Warm water and hot sand.
Burnt marshmallows.
Squiggly things hiding under rocks.
Small wiggly fish in an old tin coffee can.
Tundra full of berries and king of the hill.
Tall green grass and blanket forts.
The feeling of endless time and limitless freedom.