How do I pick a favorite?

Jeff tagged me for a meme going around in which we share our favorite book of the Bible and why. This is impossible for me since my favorite tends to change, depending on the (spiritual) season.

In one season, it was definitely Kings - the trials and misadventures of David as God prepared Him for His purpose, even under the corrupt rule of Saul. And Joseph's similar preparatory misadventures in Genesis.

And lately, it's Luke - especially the beginning which focuses on the birth of a paradigm-shifting move of God, birthed by a barren old lady and an unwed teenage mother (Elizabeth and Mary, respectively). Currently, my favorite passage in this portion of scripture is when the angel shows up and talks to Zacharias. And he says, "your petition has been heard." (I've heard it preached that the word 'petition' there means things you have prayed for but have since given up on.) And "your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son." The end of barrenness. New, reproductive life. The mothering (and fathering) of a generation that engenders great change... I am really returning to the message that Jesus (and John) preached: the message of the spiritual reality of the supernatural kingdom of God, and that it's near, directed toward, and in constant interaction with this world.

And Hebrews - especially Hebrews 11 with the list of the cloud of witnesses and what they overcame by faith, looking for "a city whose architect and builder is God." And how crazy their radical obedience appeared to others - especially Abraham and Noah. Abraham left not knowing where He was going. And Noah built something for a future time that didn't make sense in the current context, but was a vehicle/container for what was to come. These all had a sense of reality that was more anchored in the kingdom of God than in anything else; "the conviction of things not seen."

So, ya... I guess that's an unconventional answer. But, those are my favorite portions of the Bible right now. It's bound to change with the seasons...