{"id":3936,"date":"2012-11-01T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2014-11-07T11:21:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T19:21:49","slug":"thirty-days-of-bible-study-for-busy-busy-mamas-day-1-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/thirty-days-of-bible-study-for-busy-busy-mamas-day-1-getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Thirty Days of Bible Study for Busy, Busy Mamas&#8221;, Day 1: Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Get the book! <strong>Thirty Days in Colossians 3<\/strong> is now available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/details.aspx?id=128\" target=\"_blank\">paperback<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/details.aspx?id=128\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00CA6K6MO\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00CA6K6MO&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=doorposts0b-20&amp;linkId=7UVPNZTGWABAH66Y\">Kindle<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=doorposts0b-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00CA6K6MO\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> book.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1013\" title=\"Bible-reading-for-moms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bible-reading-for-moms1-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Bible reading for moms with young children\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bible-reading-for-moms1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bible-reading-for-moms1.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Do you have trouble even getting a <em>shower<\/em>, let alone finding the time to read your <em>Bible<\/em>?<\/strong> This month-long series of posts is for you! For thirty days, we&#8217;re going to look at just <strong>one <\/strong>chapter of the Bible and study it, one little step at a time. If you&#8217;re willing to try for five minutes a day, even if it&#8217;s in 30-second increments, you should join us as we work our way through Colossians 3. (For those with more time for study, you&#8217;ll walk through one approach to Bible study that you may want to use in your own Bible study after you finish this series.)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no pressure. No one&#8217;s looking over your shoulder. This is just an opportunity to do whatever you can manage. When we&#8217;re done, you&#8217;ll know this one chapter better than you did before you started, even if you only manage to finish one day&#8217;s worth of study! And maybe you&#8217;ll be inspired to keep trying!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the plan for Day 1: <\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>1.<em> Gather supplies<\/em> listed below and put them all in one place.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Bible, in your preferred translation<\/li>\n<li>Notebook, small notepad, or even a single sheet of paper &#8212; just something to write on. It doesn&#8217;t need to be fancy.<\/li>\n<li>Pen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Other optional supplies:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Colored pencils or pens.<\/em> Even crayons would work! We will be marking different words in different ways. Different colors are easiest (and awfully pretty), but don&#8217;t go buy anything special. If you don&#8217;t have coloring options, words can all be marked in different ways with just one pen.<\/li>\n<li><em>Computer printout of Colossians 3<\/em>, if you don&#8217;t want to mark in your Bible. Use <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/\">www.BibleGateway.com<\/a><\/em> or other online Bible study sites for this.<\/li>\n<li><em>Audio version of the Bible<\/em> (or at least Colossians 3), if you want to be able to\u00a0<em>listen <\/em>to the passage on busy days. Download the chapter onto an iPod or MP3 player at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bible.is\/audiodownloader\">www.bible.is\/audiodownloader<\/a><\/em>, or listen on your computer at . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/resources\/audio\/?book=1&amp;source=8\">BibleGateway.com<\/a> (choose your translation), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/kjv\/colossians\/3-audio.html\">Biblestudytools.com (KJV)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nlt\/colossians\/3-audio.html\">Biblestudytools.com (New Living Translation)<\/a> are options for listening on your computer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>2. Think about <em>where<\/em> you want to do (or <em>can <\/em>do) your study.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Is the <em>bathroom<\/em> the one place where you get a few minutes of peace and quiet? Put everything in a basket in there.<\/p>\n<p>How about in the <em>kitchen<\/em>? Can you squeeze in just a <em>little <\/em>reading while stirring a pot or waiting for the microwave?<\/p>\n<p>In <em>bed<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>In the chair <em>where you nurse the baby<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>In the <em>car<\/em>, while someone else watches the kids?!<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to think about the place you are most likely to have <strong>5 minutes to read <\/strong>(not necessarily all at the same time). <em>If everything is there waiting for you, you&#8217;ll be much more likely to do your study.<\/em> Be strategic. Keep a basket of playthings for the children nearby, if you&#8217;ll be doing this while they&#8217;re awake.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>3. Think about <em>when <\/em>you want to do your study.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This may not be realistic at this stage of your life, but if you <em>can <\/em>designate a time, you&#8217;ll be more apt to do the study. Remember, you will only need about five minutes a day.\u00a0If you want to spend more time, you can, but <em>five minutes a day is more Bible study than <strong>no<\/strong> minutes a day!<\/em> Take what you can get!<\/p>\n<p>Can you get up just <em>five minutes earlier <\/em>each day?<\/p>\n<p>Can you talk your <em>husband <\/em>or an <em>older child<\/em> into watching the kids for five minutes sometime each day, or could you do your study right <em>after the children are in bed<\/em> (before anyone thinks about needing a drink or going potty)?<\/p>\n<p>How about reading <em>before checking email<\/em> or going online?<\/p>\n<p>Or can you catch five quiet minutes during the <em>baby&#8217;s during-the-night or early-morning feeding<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Could you start a <em>quiet time<\/em> in the afternoon with all the children on their beds with books or quiet activities? Before you start housework or any other tasks during this time, grab your Bible and do your study!<\/p>\n<p>Or how about a short <em>&#8220;blanket time&#8221;<\/em> each morning, with little ones playing quietly on their own individual blankets while you study for a few minutes?<\/p>\n<p><strong>One of my favorite approaches when our children were little <\/strong>was to have everyone else pull out their Bible storybooks and have <em>their own &#8220;Bible time&#8221;<\/em> while I had mine.<\/p>\n<p>Or better yet, <em>invite your older children to join you<\/em>! Read aloud for them, and let them watch you highlight words, or if you&#8217;re brave, let them do the marking for you!<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you can&#8217;t do it any other way<\/strong>, try to grab your five minutes in <em>smaller snatches,<\/em> and put your study materials in the place you&#8217;re most likely to accomplish that. Do whatever it takes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>OK! We&#8217;re ready! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You have your materials, \u00a0your preferred location, and your time. All the posts that follow this one will be short and to the point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow we start reading! <\/strong>See you then! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-container rtsocial-container-align-left rtsocial-icon\"><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-icon \"> <div class=\"rtsocial-fb-icon-button\"><a title=\"Share: &#8220;Thirty Days of Bible Study for Busy, Busy Mamas&#8221;, Day 1: Getting Started\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-icon-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.doorposts.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F11%2F01%2Fthirty-days-of-bible-study-for-busy-busy-mamas-day-1-getting-started%2F\" target= \"_blank\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-icon\"> <div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-icon-button\"><a title=\"Tweet: &#8220;Thirty Days of Bible Study for Busy, Busy Mamas&#8221;, Day 1: Getting Started\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-icon-link\" href= \"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=%22Thirty%20Days%20of%20Bible%20Study%20for%20Busy%2C%20Busy%20Mamas%22%2C%20Day%201%3A%20Getting%20Started&via=@doorposts&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.doorposts.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F11%2F01%2Fthirty-days-of-bible-study-for-busy-busy-mamas-day-1-getting-started%2F\" target= \"_blank\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-icon\"> <div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-icon-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-icon-link\" href= \"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/thirty-days-of-bible-study-for-busy-busy-mamas-day-1-getting-started\/&media=https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/rtsocial\/images\/default-pinterest.png&description=\"Thirty Days of Bible Study for Busy, Busy Mamas\", Day 1: Getting Started\" target= \"_blank\" title=\"Pin: &#8220;Thirty Days of Bible Study for Busy, Busy Mamas&#8221;, Day 1: Getting Started\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/thirty-days-of-bible-study-for-busy-busy-mamas-day-1-getting-started\/\" title=\"&#8220;Thirty Days of Bible Study for Busy, Busy Mamas&#8221;, Day 1: Getting Started\"><\/a><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"rts_id\" class=\"rts_id\" value=\"3936\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"rts_media_nonce\" name=\"rts_media_nonce\" value=\"3774797533\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wp_http_referer\" value=\"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\" \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the book! 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