How do I practice my love for the Bible Lesson? As Elizabeth Barrett Browning might have put it, . . let me count the ways." Sonnets from the Portuguese, XLIII
First way: I try to capture the flow of thought as I read the Bible Lesson. I find it handy to jot down the thrust of each section in the white spaces around the list of citations for that section in my copy of the Christian Science Quarterly.
Second way: I try to read the Bible portion of the Bible Lesson each week in one or more translations other than the King James Version and make clarifying notes in the margins of my copy of that version. Usually I enlarge these annotations by using the "Working with the WORD" column of this magazine plus Bible dictionaries and commentaries.
