5 Surprising reasons why you cannot memorize that verse

You just cannot memorize that Bible verse! You’ve tried everything from pasting a print of it on your bathroom wall to writing it multiple times. But no, each time you need to quote it out of your memory you fail. Just how do those preachers and teachers commit so many verses to their memory? And why can’t I? Sounds like a familiar situation? Read the following and you will know why can’t you memorize bible verses (or for that matter any other text that you are trying to learn by heart.).

 

 

You cannot memorize it because:

1. You are trying to memorize it: Since you are trying to memorize a particular verse all you are trying to do is pressurize your brain somehow add this particular verse permanently in your memory. The problem is, you just cannot inject things like that into your memory. Try to learn from the verse, try and know what it speaks to you. Simply trying to mug it up will never help.
2. You are committing it to short term memory: You take a verse, read it 5 times, close your eyes and repeat it exactly without seeing it! And you are happy you memorized it, and never ever go through that verse/text again. A few weeks later, when you need to reproduce that verse out of your memory, you are lost. So what just happened? Hadn’t you successfully memorized it? Well actually, yes you had memorized it, but only for a short term. When we see a something and remember it to be recalled only a few minutes/hours later, it goes into a short term memory. So the verse that you did memorize went to that short term memory, and then you never even refreshed it by reading it more often.
3. It has no personal relation with you: The things that we remember till our death are the ones that are very personal and close to us. The same is for Bible verses, if its just a piece of text you want to memorize so that you can impress your friends then you better not expect to remember it for a lifetime. On the other hand, if this verse touched you in a personal way, helped you out of a tragedy, strengthened you in the times of trouble, you are more likely to remember it without any efforts.
4. You do not use it frequently: Even if you do manage to get it into your head, the Bible verse may not be used by you frequently enough and slowly it slips out of your memory, sometimes without leaving a trace behind. Once you have memorized a verse try and use it as frequently as possible, in your prayers, in your conversations, etc.
5. You are not reflecting on it: How do you expect you learn something by heart, that you don’t know the meaning of? It is difficult to memorize a bible verse, if you haven’t got a clue of what it means and what is it trying to say. So sit and reflect before trying to cram it!

Now you know the big why! So stop memorizing and start personalizing the biblical verses that you want to learn by heart.

Cow Dodge

DODGE ME IF YOU CAN!!!

Move along Angry Birds, Cow Dodge is the newest game in town. I play it regularly its super fun and super easy to learn and play. The rules of the game are simple

1. Select a vehicle of your choice
2. Drive it to your destination
3. On the way you either meet cows, buffaloes, herds of sheep and goats and of course pedestrians and other vehicles, you have to dodge them all.
4. You get to dodge an entire herd of raging bulls at the boss level.
5.  5 points for dodging each cow
6. 10 points to dodge a buffalo
7. 50 for a herd of other cattle
8. 2 points if you don't kill crazy crossing pedestrians
9. Points for how quickly you reach your destination.

Clear? Isn't it fun enough? I play Cow Dodge daily, morning while going to office and evening while returning home, weaving my way through the endless stream of crazy animals on road!

What about you? Have you played Cow Dodge too?

Warning: The world's ending

Yes it is. No don’t run for your life right now. You still have time to read this before the world actually begins to end! You are not getting what I am saying, eh?

Well, I am not one of those 2012 how-will-the-world-end theorists. Neither am I from some sort of a religious group that has successfully formulated the exact date and time by the help of some ancient cryptic text for the end of the world to come. I already here the groans of those who have come here to find another far fetched end-of-the-world theories.

But I am not going to deny the fact that the world is going to end. It will folks, it will. But not this year, and not the way you may have imagined. There will be no freaky earth quakes the eat up entire nations, no magma exploding out off non-volcanic craters, no great floods that will swallow the continents entirely, no alien armada that will suddenly attack earth, no meteors and asteroids bombarding the planet, no moon crashing on earth, no sudden severe changes in temperature that will wipe out all life, no planet X is going to come and hit our planet, no mysteries ‘web-bot’ predictions are going to come true, no zombie attacks, no mutant animals gone wild and definitely no nanobots are going to take over the world.

That does not mean that the world is not ending. It is ending as I write this, slowly dying an inevitable death. The world will end. But not as we perceive its end, wherein all life form will be terminated or the entire planet will be destroyed. The world that we know and are so attached to will cease to be: and change will come, so different, so alien that we will not be able to recognize it were we to come back and see the world. The same way as a primitive man would not be able to recognize our world as the same place he’d lived on and that we are the same species.

So go on and live your life without worrying about the end of the world, the world is coming to an end, but not in your life time!

My Quotes VII

I am back again with few more quotes! Hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed putting them down!

• Sometimes being yourself is the toughest challenge.
• Using few words is the sign of wisdom.
• Be like water. It shapes itself according to the vessel but never loses its property.
• Bloom where you are planted, but not into a cactus.
• We can only think freely when we have broken the bondage of our social conditioning.
• Charity and Pride cannot live inside the same heart.
• Humans only practice ‘keeping others before you’ when facing the line of fire.
• Evil has many heads. Make sure yours is not one of them.

Read. Reread. Ponder. And comment if you like any of them.

The older posts related to the quotes will be found here:

 

My Quotes VI

My Quotes V

My Quotes IV

My Quotes III

My Quotes II

My Quotes I

My Quotes VI

Few more posts for you…

 

• You are defined by who you laugh with, and what you laugh at.
• Humanity without humility is meaningless
• There is a difference between striving for perfection and being obsessed by perfection.
• Lead where needed. Follow where required.
• Life is a boat that sails on the waters of eternity.

It's Friday

There's a skip in my walk
A grin on my face
A tune on my lips
Cuz it's Friday!

There's cheer in my talk
Of weariness no trace
The world's on my finger tips
Cuz it's Friday!

No more looking at the clock
No more sitting in a daze
No more hunting for comic strips
Cuz it's Friday!

Monsoon

Drop by drop it falls
From the darkened sky
Hear the peacock's call
As he dances, his feathers fly

O! Look at the farmer
See the joy in his heart
The weather, like a charmer
plays his miraculous part

The season of monsoon
how fair it is
Just like a boon
Just like eternal bliss.