What I learned about God in the Old Testament

My husband and I are checking one item off our bucket list this year—we are reading the entire Bible, cover to cover, with the help of the Bible in a Year podcast. It’s not that we hadn’t read the Bible before. In fact, there are many books that we are extremely familiar with. But there are others that just bogged us down … you know the ones. Any book with extensive and repetitive sacrifice rituals, lots of unfamiliar geographical names and regions, but especially the long genealogies and lists of family members with almost unpronounceable Hebrew names.

As a teenager, I gotta admit, I’d skip right over those verses to get to any chapter that would advance the storyline. But now as an older woman, I’ve been trying to soak it all in as Father Mike Schmitz tackles the hard stuff—like pronouncing all of that without stumbling or stalling! He does a wonderful job too, for which I am very grateful.

As we’re working our way through the Book of Chronicles, with its many extensive lists of sons and family members, I find my mind wandering. A quick look over at my spouse and I can see his eyes getting heavy and a regular breathing pattern emerge. It’s still hard getting through these parts of Scripture, even when someone else is doing all of the heavy lifting!

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