Week 52 New Year’s Eve
Tomorrow is Sunday, January 1, 2023.
In one way December 31 can be an optimistically-forecastive day. But it can also be an annoyingly subversive day because even if I feel pretty good about accomplishing my reading goal for 2022 (and I do) I’m also staring into the not-necessarily-friendly face of 2023. Tomorrow I start all over again. Right back at square one.
I try reminding myself that the 365 days of 2023 don’t all happen tomorrow. Tell myself that things work on the One-Day-at-a-Time Model.
My plan is to read 100 chapters per month – about three-a-day. Just like last year I’ll add one psalm per-day to the schedule. The psalms are a nice change-up. The other good thing about tacking-on a psalm is that I’m consistently reading four chapters a day (which means that bit-by-bit I’m getting ahead of schedule. At that rate I could be close to 150 chapters ahead of schedule by the end of June).
I know things won’t work out exactly according to plan. There’ll be a lot of shuffling adjusting adapting & modifying going on. There’ll be a lot of situations accidents unexpecteds predicaments circumstances emergencies and like that. 2023 will randomly mutate on me. No question that some days will be better than others.
So anyway I decided to read Psalm 1 today as a way to get a small jump-start on tomorrow. It’s a good psalm…one of the bible’s reminders of a stark & basic & simple contrast between everyone who’s ever been.