Patricia Szymanski

Someone had asked me if I was ok because I don’t write blogs anymore.  I am better than Ok.  If I am on the computer for any time other than work it is on the www.readingthebible365.wordpress.com blog.  I just don’t have any time for this one anymore.  I will admit I love the lessons I would [...]

Isn’t it funny that we sometimes ask the obvious Questions in life.  Here is an example:  When you meet someone that you have not seen in a while and they have lost weight, what do you say to them? “Wow, look at you…how did you lose the weight?”  Are we really expecting a surprise answer?  [...]

Have you read 1 Timothy?  I read it this week for the first time.  It is a short book, which saddened me because it was so good (aren’t they all though).  Paul wrote it to a young man, probably what we would call a boy who was a new Christian,  and was left in  Ephesus, a major [...]

If you read your Bible you know that the Lord directs you were you need to be.  He may put you in a verse, a chapter or a book.  Sometimes I am in and out, other times HE plants me there for a long time. 
Well,  all week long he has had me in a slooooooow [...]

Want to know something that surprises me…it surprises me how easy it is to understand the Bible.  I bought my first one at the age of 33.  It was overwhelming.  The paper is so thin and the words are so small.  Then I opened it and it really is simple to read. This morning I [...]

The reason I am looking forward to reading the Bible is because I want to read the  parts I have never read before.  However, every time I read it is like I never read it before.  This morning I was in very familiar scriptures; parables in Luke and Matthew then I flipped to re-read the [...]

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw [...]

Yesterday the Lord just camped me out in Exodus (no pun intended).  Chapter 32 to be exact. The Golden Calf. What started out as just a simple read and a little concordance look up on the “stiff necked” people…which by the way the Lord says 3 times! If he repeats himself, we should pay attention.  If you don’t [...]

You know exactly what I am talking about.  One day you will be in Heaven (hopefully) and you might be asked a plethora of questions (by the way Catholics picture St. Peter in this scenario).  If you already have practiced your answer….that’s not a good sign.  Let me give you an example:
God: How come I [...]