Better Late than Never...

In January of last year, my church started reading through the Bible to go along with a two year, all-the-way-through-the-Bible sermon series. To aid in this, we offered One Year Bibles, and I bought one of them. I intended to finish per schedule on December 31, 2004. As it turned out, I soon fell behind, and despite a few weeks where I read two days worth of readings at a time, I found it was hopeless. As it would turn out, I ended up three months and twenty seven days behind schedule.

Does that twenty seven days sound familar? If it does, that's because today is the day I finally finished. Sure, I should be over a quarter of the way through my second time around, but I'm happy to have made it through once. Tomorrow, I suppose, I shall start back on January 1; part of me thought maybe I should try a different reading schedule and return to this one at the beginning of 2006 (thereby again syncronizing my reading with the actual calendar), but I really liked how this Bible organized the readings and I don't think the dates matter all that much, so long as you can remember which one you did last (or use a bookmark).

At any rate, I'd recommend the One Year Bible to anyone looking for a convenient way to read through the Bible. I have the NLT version, but they have it in other editions as well. Even if it takes you the better part of a year and a half, I think you'll find it works out pretty well.