My Best Year (Spiritually Speaking)

In Sunday morning's sermon, the preacher asked when was your best year spiritually?  My answer was this past year.  In January of 2016, I made a resolution to start a personal Bible study plan and actually stick to it through out the entire year.  I have always done something along these lines, but have ALWAYS allowed life to get in the way.  The typical strong start would last a month or so, but by mid year I would be discouraged and behind because I had allowed different things to get in the way of my personal Bible time.  

But not this year!  For the first time since I completed a "Read Through the Bible in 1 Year" program (quite a few years back), I actually stuck to and completed a personal Bible study plan.  Some weeks were really hard but even with those hard times I was able to stick to the majority of my weekly plan.  I did different things each day to try to keep myself from getting in a rut and it worked well for me.

I participated in the Revive Me in 2016 a 52 week Bible Study, you can begin here:
Revive Me, Week One
I also began Bible Marking different topics.  I got started here:
Bible Marking at Come Fill Your Cup
Since I was new to this, I did one topic every week.  A new topic is posted every month or so but there are (at this time) about 8 pages of topics, so you have plenty to do while you wait for new topics.
I read different spiritually minded articles mainly from these 2 websites:
Come Fill Your Cup
The Colley House
And I listened to different Pod Casts from here:
The Light Network
The podcasts are especially great for those days when it is just hard to sit down and have quiet time, which is very often when you are a SAHM with not-yet-school-aged littles.
I also read our Ladies Devotional and Ladies class books that we did this year with our church family at Southaven and prepared for the children's Bible class I teach every Sunday.

I am hopeful and praying that this year will be another spiritually successful year.