Tuesday, October 14th

October 14, 2008, Tuesday, 2:08 PM, 32 degrees and snowing

To ALL of our many, many friends!
The "trip" of reading, waiting, listening and "checking" has officially started. I thought it would take us a day to get settled in...but in actuality it took three days...simply because of the weekend and the weather! "Weather, in Alaska?" Monday morning we woke up to fresh snow and it was absolutely beautiful. But the snow also made for some pretty treacherous driving. Through a series of events to long to explain here, I was able to be a Grandfather and make sure our three Alaskan Grandchildren made it to school over the icy and snowy roads. Sure brought back many, many memories!

As I wrote to one person, "We are here not only to discover the God of the heart, but also to fully discover the Heart of God!" We believe that this is critical for this next chapter of our lives. Consequently we have put ourselves on a loose, but defined, daily schedule. This includes reading the Scripture, praying, discussing the options currently on the table before us and also making sure our hearts are open to whatever the Lord might have for us in the future- that "whatever" possibly being something(s) completely out of our current view and understanding.

It is my purpose to read the entire Bible while here in Alaska. If I have added them up correctly that means reading all 1,189 chapters of the Bible. So I am reading 26 chapters daily. This time in reading the Bible I am not reading it "cover to cover" as good as that might be. Rather I am reading according to the natural divisions of the OT and the NT. So here is the daily reading schedule:

• Law 4 Chapters
• History 5 Chapters
• Psalms 3 Chapters
• Other Poetry 4 Chapters
• Major Prophets 4 Chapters
• Minor Prophets 2 Chapters
• Gospels 2 Chapters
• Acts/Revelation 1 Chapter
• Pauline 2 Chapters
• General Epistles 1 Chapter

That adds up to 26 chapters per day. I have been especially drawn to the readings from Job, Isaiah, Hosea and Romans. All of the other reading has been good, but these four especially are speaking to me. When Hosea writes, "I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something alien" (Hosea 8:12) I could not help but think of our very current situation. "Many things" of the Word of the Lord are considered to be "alien" to our "modern" culture!

Well, these are some things we are thinking and doing in the very, very early stages of this portion of our '"Chronicles!" May God's peace be on you all!

Graydon and Judy from Twin Lakes in Alaska