So, what am I doing?

Reading the whole Bible in 2013…………..Hopefully

So here we go guys! Put on your scuba suits, because we are diving right in.

I’m an averagely nerdy, 15 year old girl, living in the South of England. Not surprisingly I love Doctor Who, the Green Brothers on YouTube, Taylor Swift’s albums and a good strong tea. Being in year 11 its starting to hot up, choices and decisions are behind every classroom door, academic and personal. I have friends who have known their life ambitions from the moment their heads popped out the womb, but unfortunately I have always lacked expertise in the ‘making big decisions’ area. I’m a sort of career junkie, hopping from one idea to the other, in my 15 years of life i have wanted to be, a zoo keeper, a marine biologist, a spy, an author, an actress, a sheep farmer and my most recent ambition a photographer. My careers teacher loathes me for making her find lots of information about one job, only to have me come back the next lesson with a new idea. It took me 5 years of secondary school to have me finally decide on my A Level choices the day before the deadline! I’m going to be taking; Art, Geography, Photography and Religious Education.

It’s the one thing that has always puzzled me, religion. Church for me growing up was all mums with push chairs and kids sneaking a bite of crayon, and no one seeming to be taking religion that seriously. So I decided if I’m going to do the whole Christianity thing properly, I’m going to have to do it myself. I started getting more involved in church and found a whole side of it I had never even glimpsed previously, because before then I was hiding in the back pew, scratching my name into the wood. After three years I have: been confirmed Church of England, joined a really lovely all girl youth group (just a goss fess over hot chocolate and cake), completed a week of work experience with my youth leader, bought a ridiculous amount of Christian music, been to soul survivor once and overenthusiastically persuading all my friends to come with me next year. Most importantly in these last three years I have found someone who will never leave me, loves me unconditionally and listens to me babble on and on. I found God. I am so grateful for the help I have had along the way, youth leaders, friends and my Matt Redman CD.

2013 is rapidly approaching now and as I write this, sitting on my bed in my doctor who pyjamas, my bible is creating more and more of a dusty cover. I have read the bible at church and with other friends, but I have never taken the journey in myself. I am afraid that my usual life will get in the way: school, friends and my tumblr addiction may just swerve my path away from God, but let’s hope not!

January 1st will be the start of our year long journey, just pray we can make it till next Christmas without getting completely lost in the forests of books and versus that we are going to encounter in the Bible. I’m finding my way through the Bible in the hope of also finding myself and I would only be too happy to share this bumpy ride with you.