Friday, June 2, 2017

Diary of a Bible

May this not be your story.


January 15th:
“I’ve been resting quietly for a week. The first few nights after the first of the year my owner read me regularly; but now, he has forgotten me, I guess.”

February 2nd:
“Cleaned up. I was dusted today, along with other things, and put back in my place.”
February 22nd:
" My owner used to me for a short time after dinner. looked up a few references. Going to Sunday school ‘tomorrow.’"
March 7th:
" Cleaned up. Dusted, and in my old place again. I have been down in the lower hall since my trip to Sunday School."
April 2nd:
"Busy day. My owner led a Christian Endeavor meeting and had to look up references. He had an awful time finding me, although I was right there in my place all the time."
May 5th:
" In Grandma’s lap. She is here on a visit. Today she left a teardrop on Colossians 2 : 5-7.”
May 6th:
"In Grandma’s lap again this afternoon. She spent most of her time on 1 Corinthians 13, and the last four versus of the 15th chapter ."
May 7, 8 and 9th:
"In Grandma’s lap every afternoon now. It’s a comforting spot. Sometimes she reads me, sometimes she talks to me."
May 10th:
"Grandma’s gone. Back in my old place again. She kissed me goodbye."
June 4th:
"Had a couple of four-leaf clover stuck in me today."
July 1st:
"Packed any trunk with clothes and other things. Off on a vacation, I guess. "
July 7th:
"Still in the old trunk."
July 10th:
"Still in the old trunk, although nearly everything else has been taken out."
July15th:
"Home again and in my old place . Quite a journey, although I do not see why I went, I was never taken out of the trunk."
August 1st:
"Rather stuffy and hot. Have two magazines, a novel and an old hat on top of me. Wish they would take them off."
September 10th:
"Cleaned up. Dusted and set right again."
September 22nd:
"Used by Mary a few minutes today. She was writing a letter to a friend whose brother had died and wanted an appropriate verse.”
October 1st:
"Back in my old place again. Not even dusted this week. I seem to be used only for emergencies. Wonder why they bother with me at all?"
Author Unknown
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