finish a Bible reading plan

Part of the reason I haven’t kept up with the plan is that there’s too much O.T. and not enough N.T. I’m going to change that. Also, I think I’m going to give up on lock-pace timing; instead of 1 chapter per day, I’m going to allow for 1 portion per day or multiple chapters per day depending on what is speaking to me in a particular passage.

Just finished Exodus.

I won’t catch up this year, but I’ll start working on this once school is over and I will finish reading through the Bible at the time I had originally planned. I happy to have a plan—it feels better than leaving it all to chance.

I never get to it in the morning. If I were willing to pack my lunch the night before, I might have some time in the mornings. But at night, I want some leisure. I resent working all the live-long day only to have more to do’s on my list at home. What with cooking dinner, washing dishes, school work, and a little leisure, I’m not very willing to set aside time for Bible reading too. It’s a lousy attitude I admit and doesn’t honor God or benefit me or anyone else in the end. But sometimes I get so sick of all the demands that life makes. I want to run away. If I would just chip away at this a little at a time, I could still make my goal before the year ends, but with school, in all honesty I probably won’t push myself. So, I’ll probably have to revise my goal for the coming year and I may as well quit burdening myself with guilt I’m not going to respond to anyway.

But I don’t plan to try catching up until I’m out of the class I’m currently taking.

Back on track with my Bible reading.

Hope to get caught up by time I go back to work on 3/9/07.

As posted elsewhere, the class I’m currently taking is kicking my fanny, so I’ve got about 10-15 chapters to get caught up on.

I’ve got a few chapters to catch up on with the starting of my class. Plan to do some extra reading tonight.

Most of the Bible plans I’ve seen have people reading 3-5 chapters a day. I’ve done that a couple of times but always feel like I’m missing good stuff when I read that way—it’s just too hurried. But if I don’t have a plan at all, I also miss stuff I need; I believe ALL scripture is inspired. That’s why I devised a plan based on some found on the Internet (will try to cite references later). My plan lets me read one chapter each day 5 times each week. It takes a long time to finish but allows me to catch up if I get off schedule. Also, I alternate readings from different parts of the Bible so that I get a mix of Old and New Testaments, history and poetic writings, etc. It suits me. I’m behind in my reading for 2006 and need to catch up a bit.