Week 21 The Psalms
In one way I’m glad to be finished reading the psalms. But in another way it seems too bad. I’ve been reading one psalm per day since January and I’ve gotten into a bit of a nice reading-rhythm.
I remember that a couple of years ago I read where a guy suggested devoting time each day to a psalm. Not just a couple of minutes. He recommended spending 30-minutes of reading & reflecting time. I thought it was a good idea and wondered about trying it. But in the end I didn’t.
There are 150 psalms and if I spent 30-minutes a day on each psalm that alone would be 75 hours. I remembered that it takes a bit less than three days to read the whole bible – something under 72 hours. So if I decided I wanted to read the bible and also spend 30-minutes a day on a psalm then I’d be increasing my ‘bible’ time to about 150 hours a year.
Thinking about it I figure I’d have to make a choice: a) read the bible through or b) think about / meditate on one psalm each day. But I realize that would only be the case if I decided that 75 hours was my ironclad maximum. If 75 was negotiable I could carve out time from one of my time-waster commitments. I have a couple of those.
Note: D. Bonhoeffer made the 30-minutes per psalm suggestion.