Something Greater than an App Streak
Beginning at the end of 2023 I began to build a Bible habit on YouVersion. My life was a mess...at least to my standards for myself, and the standard of the Word. I'm not one who likes an electronic Bible, I prefer holding the printed Bible in my hands and living my life out of it. Soon, I had a streak of months, I had earned badges for finished reading plans, and highlighting and notes and completing Daily Refreshes. Soon my streak hit 751 days in the Word earlier this year. Then an evening and night of struggling with my eyes and my streak was broken! It disappointed me so badly. I reached out to a good friend in Oregon a few days later, and she said, "Just listen to yourself!" I would never talk so cruelly to anyone but myself. I came to find out I had a tear in my right eye, astigmatisms, far sightedness in my left eye and my vision had declined to the point of needing progressive lenses. I'm getting older. I couldn't open ...