But really, what if you start thinking some of the obscure verses are less important because they're not highlighted and underlined? What if you sort of stop reading those ones? Or what if you start skipping the underlined ones because they already grabbed you so maybe you've learned everything you need to from them? The whole thing makes me break out in nervous sweat.

Thanks for thinking of me Jon

The pages of my current Bible are too thin for standard Highlighters, so only one verse is covered in lilac goodness. I do use multi-colored pens for marking the pages. The different colors are for the different churches, TV shows and books as well as what I find in personal study. I usually bracket the passages the pastor is speaking about and then underline and circle the “important” parts (usually anything in bold on the screen).

My Bible is also “Pocket” sized (although, the only pocket it fits in is the back pocket of my very plus size carpenter jeans. There’s a joke in there somewhere…), so I always carry it in my main purse along with my blank book that I glued a sheep to the cover of and I use for notes (I also have a separate pen for notes, but they are all in the same color).

I wanted to buy one with space in the margins for note-taking, but haven’t. My fiancé thinks it’s better to make notes in something like a compositionjournal, to avoid mucking up the Bible. I think he’s not that big a fan of writing in books in general.