As an enneagram five I have an almost insatiable thirst for information. I always loved that quote from A Little Princess,
“difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn’t read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books—great, big, fat ones—French and German as well as English—history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
I can relate. I couldn’t tell you how many books I’ve read in my lifetime. All sorts. All the time. They have been my companions, my escapes, my comforts, and helpers.
I also love to know how things work. WHY things are the way they are. I feel so blessed to live in the internet age! Want to know where the word pretzel came from? You can find out in a few minutes. Want to know how to take apart a dishwasher? The internet has got that! Want to learn a new hobby? Yep, got you there too. Truly, there has never been a time where knowledge was more accessible.
And so now I find myself studying Greek. If I had to take a class and be graded on it I wouldn’t do it. I prefer things at my own pace, my own schedule, and no one checking up on me to make sure I am doing things perfect. When in the history of the world would I have been able to do this though? It really is amazing.
This interest started because of an interest in Biblical word meanings. I wanted to dig deeper into some of them, as well as the history of the times when they were written, and well, I don’t think I know how to dig shallow. When I dig I go deep!
So come along with me if you like. I’m starting in Matthew, and I’m going to work my way through, probably chronologically rather than the order they are in the Bible (which, by the way, at least in the Pauline letters, is from longest to shortest.) We’ll see how long it takes. I’m on no one’s schedule but my own. I just want to hear what God has to say to me in these books.