Bible Bucks
One of the things that we’ve put in place this year is an incentive to encourage our older kids to read their Bible every day. We told them that we would give them $100 on January 1, 2011, if they each read their Bible every day between now and then. For each day that they skip, we’ll deduct $10. Of course, we couldn’t very well expect them to commit to this plan if Lindy and I weren’t equally committed to it. For my own reading, I thought I’d pick up in a section of the Bible that I’ve never read, the book of First Kings.
Gotta love how 1 Kings starts out…here’s my summary description of chapter 1.
David is really old, and he’s really cold. They put on all his pajama’s, but he’s still cold. What do his advisors do? Do they say, “Let’s heat up some potatoes and put them at the bottom of the bed”, or “Maybe one of the engineers can figure out a way to bump it up a few degrees in the royal palace.” No. Their plan is this: “Let’s search for the hottest virgin in the whole kingdom, and have her come into the palace and lay in his lap. That’ll get the old blood flowin’!” Brilliant plan! Give that staff a raise!
Now, apparently it wasn’t a sexual thing, because it says that the king did not “know” her, but it is an interesting way to start the book of 1 Kings. Oh, and the Bible is silent on whether or not the plan actually worked to warm up the old king. Apparently that detail is not important to the writer.
Ben and Emma both started their reading in Genesis. We’ll see what they say when they get to the first chapter of First Kings.