Ever since last fall, I have tried something different in my personal devotions. Rather than reading my way through books of the Bible I selected ten blocks of scripture and set out to memorize them over the course of the winter. I printed them out and stuck them in my car, the pockets of my jacket, and used them as bookmarks. I began the day with an hour focused on memorization and prayer, but throughout the day I would visit and revisit the passages. I was surprised at the ways God used them in my life. At times it felt eerily conversational in a way that I had only rarely experienced before in my walk with God. You would think that after spending a week or two with a passage of scripture that it would stop yielding fresh insights, but not so. God kept speaking to me in new ways even months after I had first committed a passage to memory. With each portion of scripture, I had the same experience. It was like crawling into a cavern through a narrow opening, but then as you went further in the passage opened up and it just kept going and going, widening out and surprising me with all that it contained.