Since most of us get 24 hours each day, and that time generally passes at 60 seconds per minute, why do you think you’re not choosing to sit with your Bible each day?
What is the barrier? It cannot be lack of time – perhaps you perceive other things to be more important to you at this point? Or are you afraid (at some level) to enter sacred space and time on a daily basis?
And one should be afraid. This kind of practice changes lives. People who were comfortable pursuing modern lifestyles with western comforts end up in 3rd world countries with parasites and helping indigenous farmers learn to water their crops. Maybe you should just give up on this goal and be safe.
Eight verses in one month is a good and healthy pace – if one is sitting and meditating on each verse, allowing it to sink deeply, one word and one breath at a time. It might even be a good pace if one is doing word studies or prayerfully enacting Biblical Imperatives.
But, if you’re trying to read the entire Bible, you’re stuck. But it sounds like you already know that.
Will it help you get unstuck to make this goal more precise: “Read one chapter of the Bible each morning before work”? Or to make it about sharing what you’ve read, “Daily: read a bible text and share my meditations on it at 43T”?
Do you need a teammate who will hold you accountable? Is the whole Bible too large of a project right now? Maybe you could exclude the begats … or focus on a single book, like Amos or Mark.
Perhaps a contemporary book like The Prayer of Jabez or The Four Agreements? Or maybe a shorter ancient sacred book, like the Tao Te Ching (which only has 88 chapters or so).
I only just discovered you an hour ago and was happy to see that you had repurposed 43T to suit you.
