Preserving our Verse Cards

Bible Bee prints the verse cards on the last couple of pages of the study book.  You tear them out, separate them, and use them to study the memory verses.  The problem with this is that we don't sit still at the table to do our studying.  We study in the van, on the playground, in bed, by the bonfire,--well, you get the idea.  Therefore, we have a tendency to bend, tear, stain or otherwise destroy our verse cards!  I'm just as guilty of this as the kids, by the way.

So I took all of our cards today and covered them with clear contact paper.  Then I punched holes in the corners and put them on key rings to make them harder to lose (or easier--lose one, lose them all!).  Here is a picture of what they looked like when they were done.

Bible Bee has 24 passages for us to learn this summer.  That's 47 verses total.  We'll be carrying these around a lot this summer to be able to keep reviewing them and really get them into our hearts for the long run.  

Bible Bee is a competition.  It lasts the summer.  But for our family, Bible Bee is so much more than that!  It is a chance to get the Bible into our hearts in a fun way, knowing that hundreds of other kids and parents are working on these same verses.  There is something about working on a project with someone that is encouraging, even if you don't even know who all those other people are.  

Bible memory and study is a priority in our home, even though we're busy with a zillion other things (see my other blog, Simplifying My Days, if you want to know what those other things are).  It's part of living in light of eternity.  I'm reading a book by Warren W. Wiersbe right now, and I came across a great thought.  We need to be living in the future tense.  My newest life phrase!