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When he shared his goal, I wanted to jump up and down. My husband tried to renegotiate the deal. Jokingly. I started something when our grands became old enough to memorize scripture that my parents had instituted with our sons. $1 per verse. A child doesn't often see the value of scripture memory, but we who are older realize how important it is to hide those verses in your heart as young as possible. The effort to memorize in youth is so much easier, even if the understanding of and value placed on the scripture grows with age. When we have our family call on Sunday afternoon, our west coast grands frequently will have a verse to share. (The grands in town often share their verses when they come for Fabulous Friday.) I now have a spreadsheet to keep track of which grand has said which verse. No payment for double dipping. But it had been awhile since they had a verse for me. So I was a bit surprised when one grandson told me he...
