As we approach scripture, sometimes we need to slow down.

Here's Nancy De Maswalgamuth.

You can never know the heart of God if you don't know the word of God.

And you won't know the word of God if you just skim hastily through its contents

and don't learn to read the word thought by.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy Demas Welgler, author of The Quiet Place.

For January 3rd, 2024, I'm Dana Gresch. In this era of technology and social media at your fingertips, you probably take in volumes of information and very quickly.

It might tempt you to do everything quickly.

But there are times when you need to stop and savor what you're reading.

Nancy's here to explain.

As we were growing up, I'm the oldest of seven children.

There are certain skills that my dad wanted us to learn and encouraged us to make a part of our life.

And one of those skills was speed reading.

He felt it would be a blessing in life to be able to read quickly, and I am so thankful for that ability and the training but as he

encouraged us to learn to speed read he reminded us that there were two things

that you should never speed read one is love letters and the other is the scripture, the word of God. And if you've ever

received love letters, you know that especially in those pre-marriage days when you didn't have email and

couldn't talk on the phone as inexpensively as you can a day and some of you can remember

doing your courting through correspondence.

And when you would get that letter,

there was no way you were going to just rip it open

and hastily skim through it and toss it aside.

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