Step 1 - There's an App for That

This has been my verse this week.  I had decided to make it a goal to learn some new verses and refresh some that I knew but didn't necessarily fully remember so I started looking for an app.  I didn't want to randomly search for verses and I figured someone had probably made an app.  I found Verses - Bible Memory by Verses on the app store.  They had King James Version which I was looking for, though I believe they have other versions for a fee if you use something else, and had verses by category.  My qualifications for choosing an application was that it 

1) had to be free

2) had to include the KJV

3) had to have preselected verses.

I didn't want to go the trouble of having to look up verses to memorize or type them in.  Did I mention I have a 3 year old and a 4 month old? This fit the bill and even had little games to help you learn the verse.  You can start by tapping to reveal parts of the verse or listen to the verse, then you can reorder parts of the verse, use a word bank to complete the verse, or type out the whole verse (well, actually just the first letter of each word.)  I will admit the word bank slips me up a little because the words move every time you select a word.

Anyway, I loaded the app, selected a few categories like Money and Marriage God's Way, Growth in Christlikeness, Set Your House in Order, and Being Christ's Disciple and started checking out the verses.  Some of the verses, I already knew like Proverbs 22:7 - "The rich ruleth over the poor and the borrower is servant to the lender." but I didn't know the reference and I found out pretty quickly that I had to know the reference to pass the type it out section.  You have a little green circle for each verse that fills in as you correctly do the verse.  It was very rewarding to see it fill in.  I believe you have to do all the activities to fill it in completely, but I haven't had the app long to know that for sure.

It was actually fun!  Tomorrow, or I guess technically later today, I will share the verse I'm currently working on.

God is in the details moment - Tonight, my husband had to stay over for work which he does once a week, and it was my turn to stay home from church with baby Caleb since he hasn't been cleared to be in the nursery yet.  Caleb had a great first part of the evening, even rolling over for the first time from his belly to his back and then was just inconsolably crying.  We tried feeding, burping, rocking, putting to sleep -- he wasn't having any of it.  When my mom and dad came home with SJ, my 3 year old, Caleb stopped crying, let my mom hold for a while so that I could go lie down with SJ and help him get to sleep.  This does not happen often and we were able to spend a little time cuddling and talking before he went to sleep.