The book of Joel

Rereading the book of Joel made me see things a little bit differently than I did before. I started to have mental pictures in my head that I hadn’t gotten while reading the first time. I could see each line being played in my head. Going outside during class on Tuesday, really made the experience a whole lot better by seeing God’s creation outside and to read his scripture was surprisingly peaceful and calming to say the least. I have never really thought that having that type of scenery would make the reading come alive. I always heard about people saying that it’s great to read outdoors, or just sit outside, but I never felt lead to try it. So standing outside on Tuesday and looking out into the lake and the sunshine with the cool breeze made this whole reading experience personally better. If that wasn’t assigned to me I probably would have never done it. For myself, I absolutely love to read, indoors that is, but to read outside was nice.

            As I read the section on the first page where it talks about the splinters on the fig tree really stood out to me as I read on Tuesday and even again today, I became more connected on the lines that talked about nature because right in front of me was God’s very own creation. I began to look at the details of the trees and flowers, which I would have normally would have just walked right passed instead of looking at detail. Although I didn’t look at a fig tree, I looked at a palm tree but still saw the similarity in it and began to correlate the writing from Joel and the Palm tree that stood before me. Furthermore the experience of reading the Bible more than once in front of God’s very own nature was a great experience and I saw many different flavors in this text that I hadn’t before.