While I'm unsure who designates these things, next week, November 23-30, is National Bible Week. (More resources are here.) Appropriately enough, it coincides with Thanksgiving. Regardless of whether one is reading an adventure, a teaching, or a lament in the Bible, it has a way of centering you, letting the stresses of the day fall off, allowing you to think and feel again. It is indeed a Living Word, speaking to our own situations.

So as the child's voice said to St. Augustine, "Take up and read!"