Apparently I do have a favorite book of the Bible

I struggle with doing quiet times. I do them maybe twice a month. One of the reasons is that I find Bible reading boring. Been there, read that. Yes, a verse can hit you in a way it hasn't before, or you can notice something you haven't in the past, but they're the same words.
And I never know what to read. Try the Gospels - wow, Mark sounds familiar. Oh yeah. Because it's short Luke. The Epistles - you can always get something from the Epistles. Yeah, all those Bible verses you memorized in high school - a.k.a. rote. The Prophets - haven't read them in awhile. Yeah, reading about destruction coming on Babylon or Israel doesn't really spur one on when trying to get out of a bored phase. Samuel and Kings - battle, battle, battle. The Law - boring. Wisdom Literature - mih, good for about 3 chapters. Revelation - well that's just weird.
So I guess I just try again and start at the very beginning. It's a very good place to start. Maybe this will be the time it sticks. 
Inevitably no. It doesn't.
But.
I usually eventually finish Genesis. You'd think by now that this of all books would be the one I'm most tired of. I've read it so many more times that the others. But it's the one book I don't get tired of. (Okay maybe the Creation story a little bit. But that's because I had to memorize it in elementary school, so I know it word for word.)
As I realized this the other day, I started asking myself why this would be. And it hit me. Genesis is all story. No parables interrupting the narrative, no exposition, no poetry, no laws, no prophecy, no conquering anybody. Genesis is the one book of the Bible that is all story. Have I heard these stories all my life? Yes. But a good story never gets old. How many times have I read 'Les Mis'? How many times have I read 'LOTR'? I love stories. Why do I love ruins? Because they tell stories. Why didn't I mind touring battle fields with my dad when I was little? Because there were stories. Why were my favorite subjects in school always English and History? Because of stories. 
This is why I'm drawn to Genesis. Not necessarily because I don't want to read anything else so I settle for it, but because I want to read it, or at least know I won't mind reading it. I won't get bored. I won't glide over the memorized bits. I won't get distracted in the middle of it. I like stories. Even if they're the same old ones, I like stories.

So last night...

I was sharing a room (a Bible school dorm room, actually) with Drax the Destroyer (the man, not the fish) and two other people. I had a bigger space than the rest of them, so after a couple of months it was time to trade and I had to switch corners with Drax, whose bed was half in the closet because his corner was so small. Suddenly it dawned on me that he would probably get my dresser, too, which meant that I would have to clean it out and figure out what to do with all my clothes, since I would now only have the half closet space for everything. But then someone told me that he wasn't going to make me switch all that and I could keep my three drawers. Because he only wears pants anyway.

ouch. that stung.

"For years literature had seemed like an adequate substitute for religion in my life." - "The Cloister Walk," by Kathleen Norris