100 Posts on PeaceLedge -- And Mega Memory Month is Back

Maybe it's fitting that this 100th post is a return to memorization. (Or maybe I'd have thought it fitting no matter what the topic was!)

Scripture memorization is something that I've worked at off and on for a long time, starting with Sunday School and Catechism classes, moving into Bible Studies and personal Bible times.
Fourteen years ago, while Dear Man and I were missionaries in Russia, our team made a specific commitment to memorizing Scripture, focusing on the passages that went with our "Scriptural Roots of Ministry" weekly team Bible Study.

After at least a dozen weeks of choosing different passages of, probably, 1-6 verses, I decided that I wanted to try something more cohesive: memorizing the book of Philippians. I started on it in Krasnodar, and made it through the first 2 chapters. The team accountability helped tremendously as I knew that each week I'd be called on to recite the new verses I'd learned as well as portions someone else picked from what I'd previously learned.

When I returned to Canada, I tried to keep it up, but going it alone was a lot harder, and slowly I began to slack off. So as of today I have Philippians 1 quite securely in place, chapter 2 more fuzzy, but there with promptings, and the first 16 or so verses of chapter 3 aren't too bad either.

All this to say that:

Ann's sea coral MMM button

It's Mega Memory Month again!

Here’s the info on how to participate, pulled from Ann Kroeker's MMM blog post:

1. Pick something you’d like to memorize. Something long. Something formidable. Something mega. (Mega to you may not be mega to me–simply challenge yourself relative to what you’ve tackled in the past.) Could be poetry, a famous speech, or a passage of Scripture. Your choice.
2. Announce it on your blog whenever you like. If you find out about MMM late or forget about it until halfway through the month, no problem. Jump in and do what you can in the time that remains.
3. Leave me a link (in comments or via e-mail) that will take readers to your own blog’s MMM post. Non-bloggers of course may participate as well. I'll update this post and place names and links in a prominent spot.
4. Please include the new MMM button to tie us together visually. It helps interested readers find and join the challenge!
5. Start memorizing!
6. Consider a final celebration project. I’m encouraging MMM participants to come up with some kind of end-of-month project to celebrate how far they’ve come. MMM Celebration Day will be on the last day of January–Saturday the 31st.

(I hope you realize that all the occurrences of "me" and "I" in the instructions are referring to Ann. She's the lovely soul who is hosting this event.)

My goal for MMM January 2009 is to solidify the first 2 1/2 chapters and to add on to the end of chapter 3. I really want to do this, so the motivation is there, but I know that it will be work of the greatest kind. By the grace of God, I will move ahead with this and have these precious words inscribed in my heart.

So here goes. Will you try it, too?