My First Cross-Reference!

Scripture Reading and Hair-Drying

These go hand-in-hand, am I right??

Well, my answer is YES!!

I have struggled all of my married life to be a consistent scripture reader.. Of the personal study-type. We have always done a pretty good job as a family, and it is nearly impossible to compare myself with Davy and his consistent, in-depth, detailed, diligent scripture study. {really, he's amazing}

To tell a little back-story, when I was younger {I'm guessing 12ish?} our ward had a scripture-reading program, where each ward member would receive a certificate for 30-, 60-, 90-, 6 month, and 1 year scripture reading - with NO misses. Our family took on this challenge. I think somewhere between the 90-day and 6 month mark my parents may have missed a day, but my sister and I kept going. We each received the 1 year certificate. We kept on going. It became quite a feat. I remember once, we were spending the night at my Grandma Ruth's, and my mom called at about midnight {on the ONE phone in the house} and remembered we had forgotten to read that night. WHEW!! She saved us from a miss!! I may be mistaken in my remembering, but I'm pretty sure my sister and I went 6 YEARS without missing a day. Pretty incredible, I'd say! Unfortunately, I think once we missed, we just kept on missing.

Fast forward to my whole marriage. As I stated before, my husband is a diligent scriptorian. I have been his cheerleader. I have always been impressed with his example. I guess being impressed was as far as I would go. I wanted to do my personal scripture study. I just didn't want to do anything about it.

Skip ahead to about April 2009. I was incredibly morning-sick. I could hardly make myself stand up. In desperation, I moved a folding chair into my bathroom so I could sit while I dried my hair. Somehow this evolved into my using the scriptures on my iPhone to read while I was drying my hair. VOILA! Somehow, this.. THIS was the key!

Now, I'm not saying I haven't missed a day. I have, for sure, but for the most part, I am a very consistent reader now! I'm not sure what it is.. uninterrupted time to myself? the white-noise blocking out other distractions? being stuck in one spot for that 10-15 minutes? I'm going to have to answer, D: All of the above. In addition, it feels weird, even wrong, if I'm NOT reading my scriptures while that hair dryer is on...

{and can I say - I'm retaining, and even enjoying The Book of Mormon? It doesn't even feel like a chore!}