I have found Bible memory very usefull, so many times it has come in handy when thinking about something, or talking with someone.

God bless all you rebelutionary’s
~Sparky (A Home School Graduate)

Is there a specific reason why are you guys memorizing the verses out of consecutive order?

Here’s a couple quotes from John Ruskin to encourage us:

“My mother forced me by steady, patient, daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart, as well as to read it every syllable through, aloud, hard names and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once every year; and to that discipline – patient, accurate, and resolute – I owe, not only a knowledge of the book I find occasionally serviceable, but much of my general power of taking pains, and the best part of my taste in literature. From Walter Scott I might easily, as I grew older, have fallen to other people’s novels, and Pope might have led me to take Johnson’s English, or Gibbon’s, as types of language, but once knowing the 32nd of Deuteronomy, 119th Psalm, 13th of 1st Corinthians, the Sermon on the Mount, and most of the Apocalypse, every syllable by heart, and having always a way of thinking with myself what words meant, it was not possible for me, even in the foolishest time of youth, to write entirely superficial or formal English, and the affectation of trying to write like or George Herbert was the most I could have fallen into.”

“I opened my oldest Bible just now . . . yellow, now, with age, and flexible, but not unclean, with much use, except that the lower corners of the pages at the 8th ch. of 1st Book of Kings and the 32nd ch. of Deuteronomy are worn somewhat thin and dark, the learning of these two chapters having caused me much pains. My mother’s list of chapters with which, learned every syllable accurately, she established she established my soul in life, has just fallen out of it, as follows: ‘Exodus 15 and 20; II. Samuel 1st ch., from 17 v. to end; I. Kings 8; Psalms 23, 32, 90, 91, 103, 112, 119, 139; Proverbs 2, 3, 8, 12; Isaiah 58; Matthew 5, 6, 7; Acts 26; I. Corinthians 13, 15; James 4; Revelation 5, 6.’ And truly, though I have picked up the elements of a little further knowledge . . . in mathematics, meteorology, and the like, in after-life, and owe not a little to the teaching of many people, this maternal installation of my mind in that property of chapters, I count very confidently the most precious, and, on the whole, the one essential part of all my education. For the chapters became, indeed, strictly conclusive and protective to me in all modes of thought, and the body of divinity they contain, acceptable through all fear or doubt; nor through any fear or doubt or fault have I ever lost my loyalty to them, nor betrayed the first command in the one I was made to repeat oftenest, ‘Let not mercy and truth forsake thee.’”
-Quoted in Marshall Mather, _John Ruskin: His Life and Teaching_, 9-10 (19

Sarah: That’s great to hear how well you’ve been doing. Keep fighting!

The reason we memorized Romans 8 out of order was because our family was memorizing Romans 8:26-39 together, so we did that first, and then started working on the earlier verses.

Elizabeth: I’m so glad you’re memorizing and that your brother has been able to help you. That’s great.

Brian: Go for it, brother! We’ll be asking you if you accomplished your goal when we see you in Sacramento. You do the same for us.

Nathan: It’s great to have you with us! Thank you for the amazing quote, that is quite an encouragement and an inspiration.