Read the Bible in a year!

I've been MIA for awhile....sorry!  Luke has been up here visiting for the past 2 weeks, and I'd been spending every moment I could with him, enjoying him while I can!  While I've been gone we started a new calender year, so Happy 2011 to everyone - I hope this is a great year for you all.  I sure hope this is a better year for Luke and I - I'm hoping this year brings us back together, living together again in the same country (ahh the little things, eh?!) and back to being a normal husband and wife, living in marriage the way God intended!  Oh, how I miss that!  We are always thankful for your prayers for our situation, and I will update whenever anything changes.

Whether you do new years resolutions or not, and I personally don't, I think a new year always makes you reflect on the past and how you can change and what you can do better.  I'm planning a number of things that I can do to better myself, one of them being my newest project - reading the Bible in a year!  My friend Lena made a comment about it on Facebook recently, and it got me intrigued, so I followed through on the site she had recommended, Bible Study Tools, and made my account and created a plan of action for reading the Bible cover to cover in 2011!  I'm actually really pumped about it - this has been something I've always wanted to do, but never have....so I'm really excited!  If anyone wants to do this as well, through this site, it's really simple and breaks it down for you day to day, so there's really no guess work involved at all.  You make an account on the website, which is free and very simple, then you go to the "Bible Study" tab and click on "Reading Plans" which gives you a break down of the different approaches you can take with this project.  You then click the button that says something like "get started" or something like that, near the bottom of the page, and it allows you to say what date you want to start, and which Bible translation you use, etc....and then it creates a day to day monthly list of what scriptures to read.  I happened to choose the classic plan, which is 3 or 4 sets of scriptures everyday.

I don't think it's personalized or anything, so I was planning on posting my month on here, in case anyone wants to join in and not be bothered with the whole making an account thing! :)  So here's my reading schedule for January (and even though I started yesterday, I said I wanted to start on January 1st, and I just did 2 days worth of reading yesterday and today, so I am all caught up now).

January 2011
Jan. 1  -  Luke 5:27-39; Genesis 1:1-2:25; Psalms 1
Jan. 2  -  Luke 6:1-26; Genesis 3-5; Psalms 2
Jan. 3  -  Luke 6:27-49; Genesis 6:1-7:24; Psalms 3
Jan. 4  -  Luke 7:1-17; Genesis 8-10; Psalms 4
Jan. 5  -  Luke 7:18-50; Genesis 11; Psalms 5
Jan. 6  -  Luke 8:1-25; Genesis 12; Psalms 6
Jan. 7  -  Luke 8:26-56; Genesis 13:1-14:24; Psalms 7
Jan. 8  -  Luke 9:1-27; Genesis 15; Psalms 8
Jan. 9  -  Luke 9:28-62; Genesis 16; Psalms 9
Jan. 10  -  Luke 10:1-20; Genesis 17; Psalms 10
Jan. 11  -  Luke 10:21-42; Genesis 18; Psalms 11
Jan. 12  -  Luke 11:1-28; Genesis 19; Psalms 12
Jan. 13  -  Luke 11:29-54; Genesis 20; Psalms 13
Jan. 14  -  Luke 12:1-31; Genesis 21; Psalms 14
Jan. 15  -  Luke 12:32-59; Genesis 22; Psalms 15
Jan. 16  -  Luke 13:1-17; Genesis 23; Psalms 16
Jan. 17  -  Luke 13:18-35; Genesis 24; Psalms 17
Jan. 18  -  Luke 14:1-24; Genesis 25; Psalms 18
Jan. 19  -  Luke 14:25-35; Genesis 26; Psalms 19
Jan. 20  -  Luke 15; Genesis 27:1-45; Psalms 20
Jan. 21  -  Luke 16; Genesis 27:46-28:22; Psalms 21
Jan. 22  -  Luke 17; Genesis 29:1-30; Psalms 22
Jan. 23  -  Luke 18:1-17; Genesis 29:31-30:43; Psalms 23
Jan. 24  -  Luke 18:18-43; Genesis 31; Psalms 24
Jan. 25  -  Luke 19:1-27; Genesis 32-33; Psalms 25
Jan. 26  -  Luke 19:28-48; Genesis 34; Psalms 26
Jan. 27  -  Luke 20:1-26; Genesis 35:1-36:43; Psalms 27
Jan. 28  -  Luke 20:27-47; Genesis 37; Psalms 28
Jan. 29  -  Luke 21; Genesis 38; Psalms 29
Jan. 30  -  Luke 22:1-38; Genesis 39; Psalms 30
Jan. 31  -  Luke 22:39-71; Genesis 40; Psalms 31

So hopefully I can continue with this and really make it a year long project!  I'm excited about it :)  I will continue to post the schedule at the end of each month, in case anyone else is following along with me.  If you are, I would love to hear from you!

I'm working on editing photos from my visit with Luke, so expect those soonish.  Take care all!