The Book of Joel

Today was a very interesting day. I realized that speaking out loud helps you a lot with understanding the text instead of just reading it. Which is only one of the ways you can experience literature. This class is making me realize that there are endless possibilities with what you can do with literature. And sometimes you can just get creative with it. Anyways, when I read in my head I would just breeze through it and if I didn't understand something, it's almost as if I had just skipped over it. I was just reading the words but not actually comprehending the words. Kinda weird I guess but none the less true. I actually sometimes have to read it two or three times to actually understand what I'm reading. Actually with poems I think I have to read it about a million times just to understand one line, but I guess that's the point of poetry...to make you think a lot about something. But reading out loud somehow made me think about everything and made me understand just about everything. I guess I can't just read it, I have to interact with it. Maybe not everything but more than I did while reading quietly to myself. So today I learned something! Thank you Mr. Corrigan.
Probably my most favorite lines from Joel is when it says, "Now return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving kindness and relenting of evil." I stopped for about 5 minutes on that verse just to really let it sink. And that upon being in nature and looking at what God has made equals awesome experience! And even though it was getting really hot and almost to the point of being miserable outside, it was still amazing.