The Beginning - Laura

Welcome to The Word Incarnate blog.

We (Lee & Laura) are a young married couple (no kids, no dogs…) who are committing ourselves to read. The Bible. And blog about it. Sound boring? Well, it was Lee’s idea…but we don’t think it’s going to be boring! In fact, we are expecting it to be epic! We are expecting things to happen, like when you dip a tea bag into boiling water—something changes, a transformation occurs, a cup of tea ensues. Subtle but refreshing!

We begin this journey through the Word of God at the beginning of 2010. I (Laura) am excited about new things for a new year. I don’t usually make resolutions because I find it virtually impossible to discipline myself to stick with anything. (I think it has something to do with my personality but I hesitate to diagnose…) But this is not a resolution, this is not a read-through-the-bible-in-fifteen-minutes plan. This is a journey and we will draw the map as we go along.

“Incarnate” is an adjective meaning embodied in human form, made flesh, personified.

God has been made flesh through Christ and we want God’s Word to be incarnate in us. Personified, given a body, a place to live and breathe, to walk and talk.

John 1:14 says “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

Our first stop on the Bible journey is Galatians. We chose at random from a jar containing the names of each book. I’m going to be honest, I’m glad we have a short book to start with. It would have been pretty overwhelming to kick off with Isaiah—it’s good but it has 66 chapters! Our plan, as it currently stands, is to read, pay attention to the ways the scripture intersects with our lives, and write about it. We may read from a variety of different versions of the Bible (our favorites include ESV, NIV and The Message), we may take a long time or we may go through each book quickly. We hope to post regularly. We aren’t trying to explain the Bible, plenty of people do that better than we can. We are hoping to share thoughts, intersections, crumbs that God is leaving for us like clues to his personality.

Peace,

Laura