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How To Fit Your Bible Into Your Life

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How do you fit your bible into your life?
Stop.
Right away.
From the daily struggle of trying to fit your Bible into your life.
You heard me.
Stop.
What?
Really?
But…?
Yes… stop.
I speak out loud… to myself… in my heart… and I get it.  Yes!  That’s it!
Traci – Stop trying to fit your Bible into your life… but live in a way that the Bible becomes your life.  Your very breath.  Your next thought.  Your next touch.
See me in the smiles and in the tears.
Touch me in the times when ordinary becomes extrodinary.
Taste and see that I am good, He says in spilled forth, red lettered WORD.
Hear the Living in a baby’s coo and a mother’s cry to you at 3 am.  “I don’t know how to be a Mommy, dear Lord!  Help me!”
Smell me as your true worship, on bended knee during the mundane is lifted up like a sweet aroma.  
You see… we need to stop trying to fit the bible into our life… and make it our life!

Oh Taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that puts his trust in me. Psalm 34:8

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear. 1 Peter 3:15
 
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Comments

  2. Hi, I just happened to stop by this blog. The song that’s playing in the background is comforting and refreshing! It’s been a really rough day and my soul needed a little uplifiting. Your Bible advice page was perfect.

  5. Traci, I love your blog because you always bring it back to God. Your pictures are beautiful and Scripture selections are perfect! Have a wonderful day!

  9. Hello Tracy, thanks for following my journalingjunkie blog. I am a follower of your already and your posts often chaleenge and always encourage me.I adore the photos you have included in this post, these words were just what I needed to hear – a much needed balm for my soul.
    Busyness and mothering can be very wearisome at times.
    If you’d like to visit me – my own blog is http://www.semplydone.blogspot.com, more personal and family stuff than the scrapbooking one.
    Thanks for taking the time and making the effort to reach out and connect, I appreciate that.

  13. Yes! This is an awesome post, God is dealing with me not to male my time with Him an after thought or a token but to make it the air I breathe &’the food I breathe- to change from the token to the necessary, the vital.
    Here He is again whispering into my ear through. This post,
    thank you for blessing me with this message today,
    Biggest hugs
    C

  14. Traci,
    Thanks so much for stopping by my blog! Your blog is such an encouragement and you have a new follower (and friend!) in me! Have a great day!

  15. Hi Traci, I was looking at your blog last night and was called away. So now I am back and I have to say I have really enjoyed your place. I feel like you are one of my girlfriends when I read your posts. I especially like the one about leaving our husbands in the dust. So true. Thanks for connecting! You’ve got yourself a devoted “follower” now.

  16. Hi Traci,
    Thanks for your comment on my blog. It’s nice to “meet” you. I really do like the (In)Courage blog and it’s been a great way to meet others. Good luck with your training and with your first 5k!! how exciting!!

  18. He is everywhere…and we seem to make it so hard…come like a child and they seem to know how to see His wonders everywhere…just listen to them…I hear Him everyday through my four year old, what a blessing!!!
    Enjoyed…thanks for sharing

  19. What a great post 🙂 Your photos convey a lot by themselves and your words just add so much as well.

    Glad to have you visit and introduce yourself, its great meeting new bloggers this way.

  20. I so needed to read this today as I struggle to find quiet times w/God… I’m so glad you stopped by from InCourage so I could visit yours… Beautiful!

  21. Hi Traci,

    Just wanted to stop by and thank you for stopping by my blog with a sweet comment! I’m following you, too now. I’ve poked around a bit here just now and see you have a peaceful and encouraging place! Your words of advice here about making the Bible our life are wisdom- thank you!

  24. Wow. I really needed this sweet reminder to day. Very inspirational! You are a great writer — and thank you for allowing the Lord to speak through you! (That is living the Bible)

    Thank you for stopping by my blog and making such a sweet comment! Absolutely let’s connect — maybe we can do a blog post swap?

    I am now following you too!

    Blessings,
    Bella

  25. Hi!! I popped over here after seeing that you had dropped by my place…and I am so blessed that I did because your post brought tears to my eyes. I am on a similar journey…one that learns that I don’t have to inject God into my day, but rather that I need to inject myself into His. 🙂

    Beautiful post…can’t wait to get to know more about ya!!

    Many Cali hugs,
    Bina

  27. Oh, Traci, you are speaking my language! I clung to Ps 1:1-3 during a dark period of my life a few years ago and treasure my time in the Word more than anything else. Thank you for stopping by my blog today! I enjoyed reading the 1st few posts and will stop by again soon to read more. And I’ve added you to my google reader. Grace and Peace, Christine

  28. Traci, thank you so much for stopping by my blog! I’m so glad that you found me through InCourage!

    What a beautiful post. I will definitely be following you from now on 🙂

  30. Hi Traci…saw your comment on my blog. Thanks for stopping by.

    Living it! What a great way to frame that in your post!

    Renee

  32. This is so good, Traci! Nice to meet you too! I’m glad (in)Courage brought you to me because I’ve been blessed by my visit here.

  33. Thanks for stopping by my blog Traci! I noticed your daughter Riley spells her middle name with an ‘s’. Elisabeth – with an s, is my middle name too! Don’t see that very often! Your post was encouraging!

  36. Wonderful to meet you through (in)courage…and I’m blessed by this…The times I have been consistently and daily in the Word have been the most rewarding in my spiritual walk…truly a time of listening to all He had to say…I am slowing getting back into the groove of daily time in the Word and how refreshing it has been. It’s a discipline that never disappoints!

  37. My daughter had some of the same thoughts today as she posted on her blog the following quote. I share it here and the link to her site.
    http://amylunde.blogspot.com/

    “The whole purpose of the Bible, it seems to me, is to convince people to set the written word down in order to become living words in the world for God’s sake. For me, this willing conversion of ink back to blood is the full substance of faith.”

    – Barbara Brown Taylor, from her book, Leaving Church
    It is a great quote and like your post today, gives us a lot to think about. Too often we park our Bible on the coffee table and don’t even think of them until we pick them up for church on Sunday. May the words that we read, meditate on, study and memorize permeate our lives in such a way that we become His hands and feet in a hurting world to show love as He has loved us first.
    Thank you, Traci, for these thought provoking words today.
    blessings
    ~a

  38. I love this! 🙂 thanks for stopping by my blog…I love yours, your header is beautiful!! And your kids are pretty cute too. 🙂

  39. Thank you for stopping by and saying hello on my blog, your words were very kind. Your blog is beautiful, and your thoughts are perfect! How wonderful is Our God! How blessed we are to live amongst His miracles!

    Have a blessed evening!
    Val

  45. Hi Traci, Thanks for stopping by my blog! It is so lovely to meet you.

    And I loved this post. Such a wonderful reminder to see Him in all things because He truly is everywhere we look!

    Blessings.

  47. Traci ~ Thank you for finding me through
    (in)courage. Your blog is inspirational (not necessarily ordinary) and the photography is
    great. ~ DebC

  49. Thanks for visiting! I love how incourage brings sisters together from all over the world. Keep up the encouraging work!

  51. This is something I try to model for my children. I could sit down with them each day and read from the Bible…but I’m trying to teach them the truths in a real world setting so that it becomes a part of their life instead of just something they’ve memorized. Lovely post!

  52. Nice to “meet” you! Thanks for stopping by my blog…this subject is something God is teaching me right now. Thanks for writing about it so beautifully!

    I look forward to meeting you at Relevant! : )

  53. “Live in a way that the Bible becomes your life…” Amen to that! Like you, I too have a passion for scripture and the treasures for living found there. Lovely blog! Thanks for sharing today.