Bible Reading with Miss Pear

When we were preparing for Miss Pear's arrival two years ago, we knew we wanted to be able to read her Bible stories, but could not find a children's Bible story book that met the standard we had. We did not just want pictures, we wanted God's Word! The more we talked about it, the more we realized that we wanted Miss Pear to have a Bible of her own, right from the start. We did not want to have to explain the difference between Bible story books and the Bible. So we got the

NIrV - The Adventure Bible for Young Readers, Hardcover

and we are thrilled. It was waiting for Miss Pear when she came home from the hospital, and Mr. Pear wrote "welcome to the world" inside it.

We started reading to Miss Pear while she was nursing, just a section or two. Then as she began feeding herself solid food we began reading to her in her high chair - both to take advantage of a captive audience who could not reach the book, and to pass the time! I am not much of a breakfast eater, so we still read Miss Pear's Bible to her at breakfast. Right now we are just working our way through the Gospels, again. We like reading to her about Jesus! As she grows we will read further, but for now we just keep working our way through the Gospels.

Miss Pear likes this time, she knows that we pray before we read, so as soon as she sees us opening her Bible she goes into her prayer posture (head bowed, hands about an inch from her cheeks, peaking up at us) and waits for us to pray.

We just read a section or two once or sometimes twice a day, so we are not breaking land speed records, but Miss Pear is nourished with the Word, and I pray that the seeds we are planting now will grow into a mighty harvest.