from dust beautiful things

A few years ago, for the first time ever in my life - and first time ever in more than 30 years of my up and down, faltering Christian walk - I started a one-year bible plan. My relationship with the bible had, up until this time, been awkward, to put it mildly. I had never really learned how to read God's word, and had a long history of picking it up, uncertain of where to start, completely…