I don't know whether it's a feature of becoming an old lady but I've found that, just like my mother at around the same age, I've recently become very interested in Bible memorisation. We tend to load children with short texts to memorise and there is nothing wrong with that, however, I've discovered that it is easier to memorise one long passage than a number of isolated verses. As a child any kind of memorising filled me with dread. I don't know if that was just laziness on my part or whether I genuinely found it harder than most but I have certainly found that memorising now (with no pressure of saying the text out loud to a class full of Sunday School peers) is easier than I thought. My husband bought me Thomas Meyer's excellent book The Memorization Study Bible which just the whole New Testament set out in a format designed to make memorisation easier, together with some hints and tips on techniques from an expert memoriser. However, I think you can do it just as easily without any special aids if you want to. Maybe that is the key that I didn't have as a youngster!
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