STILL ON REVELATION 6:5

 This is part of my journal entry for today.

Rev. 6:5 Again? Hopefully, a great many will see in me a mirror of a child of God who desperately wants to follow Him but finds it tough going, constantly falling down and having to get up, dust himself off, and look around to see a sign post saying he has to start at the same place, AGAIN.

Um, may I share personal stuff about my memory work? Not everyone will be able to use it, I know, if you don't share my temperament. This is just what happened to me so would be applicable for others who aren't memorization naturals but are writers like myself.

1. Whenever God gave me strong truth from the Bible, I wrote it down as well as everything about what it meant, why it was important. 2. Then when sharing about it with a friend, I made sure to open the Bible to that portion and wrote it out again. 3. When journaling about that day and mentioning the talk, I turned to that scripture passage to write out the verse word for word. 4. Later on when recalling that fellowship, I wrote down the scripture again, usually realizing by this time I knew where in the Bible it was and needed to refer to it less to write it down accurately. 5. Frequently, I ended up unconsciously learning related surrounding verses/passages of the verse I ended up memorizing (no; I hadn't actually set out intending to do so!).

People who memorize chapters at a time and are known for their intellectual abilities make what I do look like a snail's trail. But over the years, I think this has ended up sticking with me because these verses are the truths God gave ME, even if they seemed to be "just a few a year."

But for some reason, that kinda snowballed. I don't know how it actually happened. Maybe in Heaven, He'll explain it to me, because it's not supposed to have happened; somewhere in there, I wanted to do some "patchworking together" of passages that were special to me and ended up with larger "quilts" of chapters and books.