You're listening to the Jeff Kaven Show episode 242, The Insight Journal, a Ford Nox for Truth.

Hey, I'm Jeff Kaven's. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible?

All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. It's the Jeff Kaven Show.

I love meeting with you on a weekly basis as I get to sit in my office, whether I'm out in the woods, you know, which I'm not today, but in my office at home, and sitting here and thinking about communicating to you, some things that are going to make a big difference in your life, whether it's Bible study or studying the catechism or applying the truth to your life, living as a disciple.

Or sharing Christ with other people. I've been about this now for a long time. And since I was 18 years old, my life has really centered completely around the Lord Jesus Christ and studying, reading, and teaching, and I've just never found anything in life that's so captured my heart as the Lord.

In fact, Emily and I, when we met, we were 18 and 17 years of age, and we got married when we were 20 and 19, and we got married really with the idea that we would serve God together.

And so this has been my life, all of these years. And one of the beautiful things about the podcast here is I get to share some of this with you, and in getting your email and your comments, you get to share with me.

And I love that relationship. You know, as I am sitting here in my office, I've got hundreds and hundreds of books that I have read and some that I have not read.

And I also have a stack of several stacks, actually, of mulski notebooks and other kinds of small notebooks. And in those notebooks over the years, I have, I've written down a lot of things.

There is, there's schedule things. There is things about weddings and baptisms and reminder lists, things to do and all that.

And then tucked in there among all of the ordinary things are some interesting quotes that I really wanted to write down at the time.

And I might have heard a talk or heard something on TV or a great quote in, in a movie or, you know, in a book.

And so I have been collecting those for a lot of years. And then I also started to develop a file in my computer where I would keep track of quotes and insights for living that I thought were very, very valuable.

Well, you know how it is over the years, you start to collect these things and all kinds of different folders and journals and files in the computer.

And here we are 43 years later. And I've got them everywhere. But I, but I realized not too long ago that I really didn't have one place where I could really put the goal or the insights or those truths that I never wanted to let go of.

And I actually started to do something a couple of years ago in, in making one notebook, the place where I could keep track of those insights and the gold that I, I didn't want to forget.

I just didn't want to forget it. In fact, I wanted to pass on these insights and this, this spiritual intellectual gold, you know, to other people like my children or my, or my grandchildren.

Father Mike Schmitz this last year, we've been through quite a ride with Bible in a year. And we've been able to produce a number of, of tools that will help people in a Bible in a year.

But over the years, Father Mike and I have been talking about journals and ways of keeping track of really the insights in our life that we don't want to let go of.

And so we started doing, you know, a type of journal where you can, you can write in there and half the journals for ideas, half is for daily things and in just a whole smattering of different kinds of ideas.

In the end, I think we both agreed that, that there really isn't that place where everything goes and we, we know that when we grab that small notebook or journal, that everything in there is gold.

Everything is so valuable and we want to keep track of it. Well, this year we put together something that I would like to share with you and tell you a little bit about it.

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