Comments on: Loose Ends

By: Emilie

Emilie — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:22:47 +0000

Hey BooMama! I am Faith’s mom and I was thrilled to finally get to “meet” the “infamous BooMama” through pictures on her blog. She was so excited to meet you while at Market in Atlanta this weekend!

I have been reading your blog for some time, but have never left a comment before now. What made me decide to write was the post about Kay Arthur’s Bible. I LOVE that you got a picture of it! I am a big fan of hers and have done numerous studies of hers in years past. My Bible is all marked up with, YES, colored pencils –as she taught us to do in our classes. I am a huge fan of writing in my Bible. I even write sermon notes in the margins of my Bible. It’s so neat to look back years later and see the date and what God was teaching me at that point in my life. I also hope that it will leave a “legacy” for my children one day. They will see certain passages that meant a lot to me and times that I prayed specific passages for them.

I use the International Inductive Study Bible (Precept Ministries) that Kay recommended years ago. I have had it since the mid ’90s. It has wide margins to write in and lots of room to put your own thoughts down. It even has instructions in the front of the BIble on “how” to mark your Bible in different colors!

Thank you so much for sharing this post. You definitely got a picture of the Bible of one of our Heroes of the Faith!

By: Joy

Joy — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:12:31 +0000

Well maybe she has more than one Bible and one of which is “colored up”!!! I know in our house we have many Bibles. Some we highlight, others we don’t.

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By: Kelli

Kelli — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:16:04 +0000

Thanks for the pic of Kay’s Bible. I live in her hometown and go to Precept regularly. Last time I was there, I sat right behind her as her son David was teaching and I couldn’t even pay attention for trying to get a glimpse of her Bible. I couldn’t get a clear shot ’til her cell phone started ringing and disrupted the whole class. Then I beheld it. I think the Lord did that just for me:)

By: Julie Todd

Julie Todd — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:15:12 +0000

I studied under Kay Arthur for years. I started going out to Precept, which was then called Reach Out Ministries in the late 70′s. I was in junior high. Growing up in Chattanooga, I was able to attend Bible Studies in the Red Barn, which is no longer there, for years. It was a small Bible study, maybe 50 teenagers.

Then she moved into Precept and I was at the first one she did.
I remember the colored pencils… I’ll be honest with you…I DIDN’T LIKE OBSERVATION WORKSHEETS. OK, I’m not meaning to shout, just letting that emotion out. I think the first Precept I did was on Romans.

I am grateful that Kay taught me how to take apart the Bible and learn how to study it. I still use the skills that she taught me 34 years ago.

Later I moved into volunteer work out there at Precept, typing her correspondence and working at retreats..

Lots of fond memories of my Precept days.

She did love those colored pencils!!!

Julie

By: Missy @ It's Almost Naptime

Missy @ It's Almost Naptime — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:59:14 +0000

Sophie, I just read your bio.

Every few months my mother-in-law makes chicken a l’orange. Walker’s grandma’s recipe, to boot. And everyone ooos and ahhhs over it and I just smile and try not to gag while I take a few obligatory bites and eat lots of side dishes and rolls. It’s just so. not. good.

I am glad to know that you understand the trauma I must periodically endure and that next time, you will be supporting me in spirit.

love, Mis