Books Read In The Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

Books are listed by author (or series creator),
 and not necessarily in the order read.

"Mother Angelica's Private

and Pithy Lessons from the Scriptures" #

introduced and edited by Raymond Arroyo

reserved for Sunday

"Secrets  (Brookville C.C. No 4)"

by Tziporah Elian

[children's/young teen fiction, Jewish, series]

"The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down"

"The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Real"
by Neta Jackson
[Religious fiction, series, Protestant, multi-denominational and non-denominational]

(I figured out why the Yada Yada books 

appeal to me. It's in this post.)

This time around, I'm also going
to read ALL of the spin-offs

"Every Day Is A Gift

Minute Meditations for Every Day
Taken From the Holy Bible
and the Writings of the Saints"
Introduction by Rev. Frederick Schroeder 
 daily devotional reading for 2016 

"Blueberry Muffins: Everyday Stories of God's Love"

by Colleen Spiro

[nonfiction]
(Kindle book)

reserved for Sunday

"Walden"

by Henry David Thoreau
[nonfiction]

A Bible-Reading System That Works For Me

After some trial-and-error... mostly error... I've finally found a Bible-reading system that works for me.

First of all, here are the things that I'm not doing this time around:

1: I'm not trying to read the entire Bible within a set time period.

2: I'm not reading the Bible from cover to cover.

3: I'm not following a prescribed reading list, program, or chart.

This is what I am doing:

1: I'm reading the Bible by type of book. Right now I'm doing St. Paul's Epistles (I'm reading Romans at this time; next will come 1st Corinthians.)

2: In addition to reading the Bible by type of book, I'm reading 

the Psalms, about 1/2 column a day.  And before I go to bed at night, I select and read a Gospel passage.

3: I'm using four translations.  They are, in alphabetical order:

The Contemporary English Version

The Good News Bible

The New American Bible

The Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition

these Bibles are side-by-side in a large red shoe box.

I find that using several translations gives me a deeper understanding of, and insight into, the Scriptures, and also makes me think more about what I'm reading, and how it relates to me personally.