Week 26 Ecclesiastes
I start reading Ecclesiastes today and right away get reminded of something that happens in bible-reading. It’s that I read something and I get it, and then maybe right away, maybe right in the next verse I see something that doesn’t make much sense to me.
It’s a bit like this: Ice cream. Txhjkow. Hydro-electricity. %%%dppyo8. Herd of elephants. Thhg &44) kkol. A kind of bible-reader’s parkour. I land on a spot where I’ve got some pretty solid comprehension then I hop over a gap where I’m feeling baffled. I move ahead and then stall. Think I know…think I don’t.
Reading any kind of Not-So-Easy material I can pretty much figure on this happening – this mix of getting-it & not-getting-it. Today I get that reminder when I start Ecclesiastes.
Not-so-easy reading more-or-less insists that I try to understand. Entertaining reading is more appealing because it puts understanding way down on its list of requirements.
Note: month-end reading report. It’s the last day of June (so 50% of 2022 is in-the-books). I calculated that I’ve read 54% of the bible. When I finish with Ecclesiastes I’ve got a heavy diet of prophets through the hot days of summer. Isaiah & Jeremiah – two of the longest books in the bible – are up ahead. Since my plan is to finish the OT by August 31 I’ll have to pick up the pace a bit.