Exceedingly Curious

This year I’m reading the Book of Mormon. Here is a sample of my reading schedule, with dates and pages to be read. Note that by the middle of June, instead of two pages a day, I’ll read one page a day for the rest of the year to finish on time.

Last year, my wife and I read the entire Old Testament (minus the Song of Solomon) following a chart like this–but with more pages to read per day. This year we are reading the New Testament. Here’s a sample of our schedule with dates and page numbers. Like my reading of the BOM, we started the year reading two pages a day, but eventually dropped to one page for the schedule to fit the year.

I like reading by pages instead of chapters because it gives us a consistent and digestible dose of the Scriptures each day. Reading by chapter sometimes gives too little and sometimes, way too much.

This year I am singing my way through the hymn book, one hymn per day, as part of my morning devotional.

There seem to be more hymns that I don’t know–or sort of know– than ones I do.  I sight-sing fairly well, so don’t need to go to the Church’s website to hear how an unfamiliar melody goes, though I go there to listen to some anyway.

Here is my hymn singing schedule for the year, which I keep in a hymn book near my desk:

There are, of course, only 341 hymns, so by December 7, I’ll be done.

Here is a text file of the chart. You could start on any day and loop back to the beginning. The chart may be useful to track things other than hymns. Days of the year blank chart