If Your Bible Could
Speak, What Would It Say?

• January: A busy time for me. Most of the family decided to read me through this new year. They kept me busy for the first weeks, but they have grown lax now.
• February: Clean up time. I was dusted yesterday and put in my place. My owner did use me last week. He had been in an argument and needed some refrences.
• March: Had a busy day first of the month. My owner was elected president of the PTA and used me to prepare a speech.
• April: Grandpa visited this month. He kept me on his lap for an hour reading ICorinthians 13. He seems to think more of me than some others in this family.
• May: I have a few green stains on my pages. Some prom flowers pressed in my pages.
• June: I look like a scrapbook. They have stuffed me full of newspaper clippings - one of the girls was married.
• July: They put me in a suitcase today. I guess we are off on vacation. I wish I could have stayed home, I know I'll be closed up in this thing for at least two weeks.
• August: Still in the suitcase.
• September: Back home and in my old familiar place. I have a lot of company. Two women's magazines and four comic books are stacked on top of me. I wish I could be read as much as they are.
• October: They read me a little bit today. One of them is very sick. Right now I am sitting in the center of the coffee table. I think the Pastor is coming by for a visit.
• November: Back in my old place. Somebody asked today if I were a scrapbook.
• December: The family is getting ready for the holidays. I guess I'll be covered up under wrapping paper and packages again...just as I am every Christmas.

(Author Gene Baker)