What’s a book, movie, or TV show that you wish you could experience again for the first time?
The Bible—a collection of God-breathed writings, useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16). I encounter God’s words daily—a lamp for my feet, a light on my path (Psalm 119:105).
In reading the Bible, I hear what God says to me; in prayer, I speak back to Him. Through this communion, I have built a close, living relationship with my Creator. Knowing more of Him enriches my life, and following His precepts has ceased to be a “duty”—it has become a genuine delight.
I find that reading Scripture repeatedly is like peeling a large onion, layer by layer—each turn offers fresh tears, new insights, and deeper understanding. Every day, I come to the text not to repeat, but to renew my experience, constantly growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
So to answer today’s prompt: I don’t have a book I wish I could experience again for the first time—because I have the Bible, the only book I ever desire to read and experience again and again, each time as if it were new. But I do have a play I wish I could experience again for the first time—the living drama of my own life.
Reflecting on my own journey, I wish I could have started on a clean page in the Father’s household. May this poem of an actor’s life help uncover the real meaning of living:
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✨ “Who Is Me” ✨
An actor’s life, a stage-bound play —
Truth hides where fictions hold their sway.
When masks are worn so long, so deep,
Each role I take — myself I keep?
To play so many, I lose my own,
A stranger to the self I’ve known.
Who is that “I”? Where does “me” start?
This question haunts my inmost heart.
Restore the real, the true, the free —
But who would know that “me” is me?
A lifetime sold to every part —
Yet all my sales buy not myself.✨
en yan hua fang 