Change of plans

Due to…circumstances…I don't think the cleaning schedule thing will work for February.  I still am putting some scheduling techniques into practice, and I have created a schedule, but this isn't the month to focus on maintaining it.  I blame the army.  I can usually blame the army when I'm annoyed.

So, new plan.

A few weeks ago, I got it in my head (after listening to the Rick Warren podcast) that I needed to read the Bible this year.  Like this is the year. I will be 30 next year and I've never read the entire Bible.  I've read good chunks.  I've gone to Bible study groups.  I've attended church regularly.  I even carried my devotional around with me for first 3 months of 2012 because it was the beginning of a deployment and I needed that reassurance day in and day out.  

It was "put on my heart", so to speak, to get myself in gear and start reading.  I started two weeks ago.  

No matter how you go about it, you will finish the Bible in a year if you read 3 chapters a day.  I chose to take the historical route; reading it in the order it was written. Some days I might be able to read more and jump ahead.  It'd actually be be wonderful to finish it in less than a year, so we'll see. 

While this will be an overarching, year-long task, I'm going to make a special effort to make sure I concentrate on it this month.  It's desperately needed right now, as some days I feel like I'm barely holding it together (more to come at a later date) and I need this to ground me and give me routine, faith, and hope.  

March might see publication of the cleaning schedule. Or maybe I'm just so terrified of implementing a cleaning schedule that I've decided that reading the entire Bible is a less daunting task.  Suppose we'll see.