Getting Ready to Start the Year with Daybook of My Personal Faith
Daybook of My Personal Faith came out in the middle of summer, and many who now have it, have already started reading it, including me who wrote it.
And yet as we come closer to the end of the year, I find myself getting eager to start it again on January 1st. That’s when you usually start reading a daybook.
I tried to write it so you could start anywhere, and in fact, you can. But even for me there’s going to be something special about starting again in January. This daybook builds. For instance one of the days in January you go outside and take a picture, and then each month after that you do it again, so that by December you have a rotogravure of photos from each month of the year. Each of the months has a short Bible verse to memorize, and so by the end of the year, you will have twelve in your brain filed under “Bible Verses I Know.”
The Daybook is more than just reading (as the photo-taking shows.) There’s a plan to it. Each month has new words to a well-known hymn; a recommended book for that month; a chant to sing; a mandala to color; something about the power of music; something about peace and justice; an old hymn to read out loud; meditations; some kind of active worship; poetry; something about prayer; a favorite quote of the month; new poems on the Ecclesiastes verses about time; and a grace for the month. So there is variety.
In the middle of all those things, Daybook was also designed to spur the reader to think about your own faith and what’s important to you. For each of us have pieces of our faith that are unique to us.
So…read on…day by day in Daybook of My Personal Faith.
