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Sad! I freak out when I forget or can’t find my bible. No lost bible here! (ok, that’s not exactly true but I have gone BACK to church to get it if I’ve left it.) True!

Great job, as always, Curtis! Framanda? How did you come up with that?! I can’t wait for GPLTHNRE to open (though I thought it started with an i like iPod?)
Breakdancing worship eagle piñata = the most amazing thing (at first I typed “thong”!) in the universe … where can I get one?! I too HATE forgetting my Bible… I think this has moved me to love on those poor orphaned Bibles and adopt them! Forget starving AIDS children – this is a mission! =P
Keep laughing,
Jx

Someone needs to post a entry on “crap that was donated to the missions yardsale”.
Seriously. Really? You think THIS hard plastic “sit under it” hairdryer is going to sell?? Or maybe the complete 1982 collection of church financial metting videos? And the 90 thread count pre-pilled sheets? That ain’t no tie dye pattern.

wv-clogs-precursor to Birks. Just as ugly, although NOT as ugly as Croks.

This was hilarious!

“big eyed Precious Moments angel babies…” ROFL!!

Do people really lose Bibles? I can’t seem to get rid of them, especially the small NT Bibles that they give away. You can’t just throw it away you know, so they just hang out in some drawer.

Yes, with computers, I do have a "go to meeting Bible". It was left the last time I "went to meeting" & will be with a friend until "go to meeting again".
I started to go pick it up immediately, thinking they might think I don't read it. Instead I called & explained I use the computer at home for Bible reading.
I don't have an "i-phone" b/c too many teens borrow my phone. So when I'm able to have a phone (with a Bible program, a keyboard & a clam phone) then I will take it to "go to meeting" at the church.

Word Verfication: lecingi
French for the singer

However we do run a clothing (& anything you can imagine) store. We get tons of Bibles that we either give away there or at the ministry.
The Bibles that really bother me are the ones with a special note in them encouraging the owner & exclaiming their love & prayer for the owner.
I wonder if their friendship & faith was tossed aside as easily as their Bible.

Word Verfication: andimin
(and dimming) Andimin the lights makes the room more romantic.

I have lost several bibles, but I have MANY at home.

This was a very clever post! I enjoyed it .

I wonder if that lost & found Bible has seen my debit card…I don't know how I managed to leave that at church. Anyways the gold lettering name on the front of the Bibles is genius…my Bible has narrowly missed lost & found plenty of times because my husband insisted I get my name engraved. He knows me so well.

I’m totally with Warren. Bibles seem to breed like rabbits in my house. And it feels sinful to toss old ones or freebie, cheapie ones. Seems to come with the territory of being married to a minister. Not only does he buy every single new translation, but people think that because we’re in ministry, they need to GIVE us Bibles for Christmas. Seriously?!? (That, along with all manner of TACKY Jesus paraphernalia–anybody want a Last Supper light-up clock?)

I lost my Bible at Thanksgiving. Left it at the church dinner. Been asking all over about it. It doesn’t have my name in gold but does have it inside. It isn’t the Bible I use all the time but it is thin and has a concordance I like to use occasionally.

WV defloti= what happens when I am caught misquoting the Bible

I got really defloti when Sam told me that scripture was from Matthew not John. Made me feel like I really goofed up again!

Oh, thank God! You found my Bible!

True story.

I did my internship for my BA about 4 years ago. I accidentally left my thin line Bible, at the time my favorite Bible to use while preaching now I don’t even use a Bible I just print my scriptures out. Three years later I was visiting my family for Christmas and my sister brought my Bible to me. I had wondered where I lost it but could never seem to find it. The Sunday after I got my Bible back I was given the opportunity to preach the PM service. The board went to the Pastor and asked about me becoming the new YP. A month later I had moved halfway across the country and finished my credential process in record setting time.

Turns out my Bible really likes it here and just couldn’t stand the thought of moving so it hid in the church until such a time as it figured it could get a permanent relocation.

I lost my bible sophomore year of high school at my church. I’d had it since I was like 8 and in addition to my short lifetime of bible lesson notes, it had all those notes you pass with your friends during church about the cute boy in front of you in it. names were named… and my friends and I were boy crazy. it would have been mortifying if anyone in Youth Group found it. I hunted for probably a year through all of the various lost-and-founds… to no avail. Someone probably had a good laugh, but I still hope it wasn’t someone I know.

WV: Singic. When you know what song the worship leader will choose before he plays it.

hilarious! and so true.

whats crazy is back in the day me and my friends used to peruse the lost and found at church and look through the bibles for any money or sunday school homework (that we left at home and were supposed to have that day). one time i actually ran into a massive precious moments bible with a plumpy ivory white cover embossed with gold letters and precious moments characters big facededly portraying bible scenes…
and for the record: a breakdancing worship eagle pinata? amazing.

wv: gltumbs
the postion of you thumbs in relation to your gluteus maximus

I shed a solitary tear for all the Bibles I’ve lost through the years when I read this.

Do lost Bibles go to heaven when they die?

Found mine one time next to the unwashed green bean casserole dish.

Brad,

All Bibles Go to Heaven. So do American flags. And waffles.

The boy scouts have taken great leadership in laying out the rules for disposing of old American flags. I think there’s even some kind of ceremony involved. Clearly we have the same problem with Bibles.

We need a Christian organization that can help us determine the proper ways to care for Bibles that are retired from use. I think it would even be appropriate for them to wear dashing little bandanas and they could earn patches until they earn the status of worship eagle scouts.

If I’m not mistaken, there are organizations that will distribute used and extra Bibles. I understand there is a need for them in prisons and also in countries where English is being taught as a second language.

I choose to not have my name engraved on the front cause then if I happen to leave my Bible somewhere every person that walks by will not know that it was me. Yes, me the one who is so nonspiritual that I would leave my Bible somewhere. If someone is so concerned to give it back to me, they can look on the inside.

Framanda – love it! You should write your own baby names book.

WV – colonrat
That needs no explanation.

I have a Bible with my name in gold on it. (When I got married, it was a BIG DEAL to get my new name on a new Bible.)

Times have changed. I read MY Bible at home, but it rarely leaves the house.

I’m really absent-minded, and I have enough to hold onto at church already:

Purse, planner, Kid #1’s jacket, Kid #2’s stuffed animal, Kid #3’s hand (or else she wanders off), one umbrella (of which I’ve gone thru a dozen), and three “claim stickers” for above-mentioned kids.

Fortunately I go to a mega-church that assumes nobody has a Bible, so they provide them under the seats (theater-style, with cupholders).

Oh yeah: I also have to hold onto my coffee cup.

WV: bosti
How they say too many in Spanglish:

“Nosotros have bosti biblias aqui.”

I do usually see a Precious Moments bible in the lost and found.

The big eyed angel riding on a sheep cracked me up. And I do use Crosswalk a lot now to look up scripture, but my Schofield study Bible and my NIV/Message parallel Bible still get a lot of use. One thing to consider for the future; my father passed away in 1995. He LOVED God’s Word and had a lot of Bibles. Some of my most precious possessions are Bibles that he had used; one was in his jacket the day he died, and several were just plain worn. They had passages underlined, scraps of paper with verse references and notes… sort of a spiritual journal that he never even knew he left behind. So, USE your Bibles.. mark your favorite passages, write your insights. What a legacy for your chldren….

like Alison, I’m married to a pastor and we have a veritable cornucopia of Bibles in this house!

This year for Christmas we got a ceramic statue of a family with 4 kids and guess what? we only have two. Are they trying to tell us something???

I actually have an ESV pocket Bible that I got from the lost and found. Does that make me a bad person? One of the pastors said that the guy who left it (his name is on the inside of the Bible) was long gone and not coming back, so I took advantage.

wv: gnanbo-Rambo dorkier, less popular cousin.

I’m a little disappointed nobody has created a blogger identity named “Framanda Alvins” and posted an apology to the bible.

Oh well.

Losing your Bible in the lost in found? Ridiculous. But to be honest, I have to give props to Framanda for at least bringing a Bible. At my church they put the verses on the screen. I’m not even sure everyone has a Bible.

And I have helped out in the lost and found department a couple of times. No lost Bibles. But a lost checkbook was in there once and don’t think that movie “Blank Check” didn’t cross my mind. I know. I’m bad.

Ja-Ra Good for you! If it was his only Bible, he would have been back for it (I’d hope). Assuming it’s not, he should feel priveleged if he ever finds out another is using it.
Framada- Glad that you now know where to find your Bible.

All these commenters stating that their Church’s lost and founds have precious moments Bibles has me wondering…
1) Do you all just go to the same Church?
2) Are people trying to get rid of there precious moments bibles in some sort of humane way?
3) Where do you go to Church? I like precious moments and would love to give a free precious moments Bible a good home.

Too funny! The name and the scary big-eyed precious moments baby riding a sheep, and the p.h.a.t. Bible cover were the best. Thanks for posting!

hahaha! poor little bible! where on earth did you come up with the name framanda? that’s so fun! also, nice touch by adding the creepy precious moments angel in there!

Or maybe there’s a secret rehab place where rejected Bibles go for therapy?
“Hi, I’m Framanda’s NIV and I have been lost for 3 months”.
All other Lost Bibles :”Hi Framanda’s NIV!”.
“Umm, I just want you all to know I’m not REALLY *lost*, I just hopped in the bag of some high maintenance housewife who NEVER opens her Bible carrying case…she just carries it to look good and get invited to rich people’s homes…I hate the name Framanda, so I came here to get it scrubbed off. I’d really just like directions to wherever I can get rid of this lame name?”.
Moderator of meeting, also known as King James :”Well alright then, hey Single Denim Covered Message Bible, can you show Framanda’s Bible to the Extreme Cover Makeover section?”
SDMB:”Yuh huh!”

The End

My husband’s pocket Bible went through the Maytag and did not survive. So he bought a new one and after a few weeks noticed there was someones name written in the TO:___ spot in the front. How weird is that? He says he prays for her and really wonders why she obviously returned it to the store. So this is a found Bible from a perhaps lost soul….

I need to go pick up that teething ring sometime.

Maybe we need a post on the dilemma of what to do with bibles you don’t want but are too worn to give away. Throwing them out doesn’t seem quite right.

I think I need my eyes tested. When I first read the headline I though it said "Leaving Babies in the Lost & Found" which might have been a rather different article altogether…

So my church isn’t the only one with 107 Bibles in the lost and found. Maybe people don’t want to do the walk of shame to pick up their lost Bible?

Take them out of the lost & found, put them out on a table & give them away & maybe somebody will recognize theirs & take it home. Either way they are being used. Or take to a ministry that needs Bibles.

Word Verfication: eralmit
a limited time

Mo, great idea!

so… is it embrassing when your boss at church returns your bible to you and says, “uh, this was in the lost and found” and you respond, “i’ve been looking for it for months”

really? so, does that mean you weren’t reading it for all that time?

no…. i have other bibles… its just, this was my favorite.

uh huh. right.

and i really love jennym’s bible support group in the lost and found. funny funny.

the verses are on overhead here, so I’ve stopped bringing my Bible to the service. So if I do want a Bible (sometimes I’m not sure of the context of a verse used in the sermon) I go get one from the lost and found. At least they’re getting some use.

(Actually, one I grabbed for that purpose was a Thompson Chain-Reference, so I kept it. I also got a cover for my Bible that way.)