Carrie Ward decided to read the entire Bible with her preschool-aged children, one chapter per day.

Then she figured out how long her plan would take.

And so I actually got out a pen and paper and did the math on it, and I factored in days that we might be sick or we might not be able to read.

It was going to take me eight years to read the Bible, and that was overwhelming.

For a person who is a slow reader and not very disciplined and all of these things,

I was just like eight years seemed overwhelming.

But at the same time, the desire didn't go away. And I said that night, I want to do this.

Could you pull it off?

We're about to find out.

You're listening to the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Wednesday, July 16th, 2014.

All this month, Revive Our Hearts listeners are getting to know all the authors in the

True Woman line of books. Today we're focusing on an author who goes by the nickname an Everyday Mama.

Here's Nancy to introduce the program. Do you ever feel like you're trying to read the Bible to your

kids and they're not hearing

a word you're saying?

Well, that's how Carrie Ward felt when she began a quest to read the entire Bible to

her children.

Here's some of what we heard from Carrie yesterday.

When we started to read, I'm sure I told them today we're going to read the Bible and I thought they would be

really excited and they were sort of not understanding what was going on. But I began to read,

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed and all their hosts. Mom, can I more toast?

Sure. Just a second.

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