Luke Progress Report for 5 August, 2023

Hello :)

This is my progress report for the Gospel of Luke as of 5 August.

I started this journey on 5 May of this year, and at that time I promised to give a progress report once a month.

I decided to simplify the report data. In the image below, you can see a table showing each chapter of Luke which I'm working on and then in the next column, the average progress percentage for all the verses in that chapter.

I want to be clear, my goal here is not to be able to recite the Gospel of Luke. I very much admire the other people here, who have made recitation their goal -- FinalAsgard with Philippians, TheMoviegoer with the Gospel of Mark, and I'm sure there are others of whom I don't know.  

But, my own goal with Luke is to keep my focus on it until I've got all of the verses of that gospel in my review queue, and then to eventually raise them all to the level of 100%. "Eventually" most certainly means years. I can reasonably expect, if I keep to my current pace, that I might have half of Luke at 100% by the summer of 2025, and then perhaps 80-90% of it at 100% by early 2026. These are guesses on my part, based on the hope that I can get one new chapter well into the review queue each month. If I actually do that, I'll be working on Luke 24 in December 2024.

I'm working on other parts of the Bible too -- namely the Gospel of John, Romans, Hebrews, Revelation, and Isaiah. I have a order which I follow in adding new passages -- one of every three is from Luke, one of every nine is from either John, Romans, Hebrews, Revelation, Isaiah, and a "wild card". The order of my queue for adding new passages looks like this:

Luke

John

Romans

Luke

Hebrews 

Revelation

Luke

Isaiah

"Wild Card"

I have another rule for myself: I don't add a new passage until there are less than three passages in my queue with 1 day intervals.  

To put it another way, I never work on more than three "young" passages at a time -- by "young" I mean those with review intervals of one or two days.

I've got everything on a spreadsheet, links to the passages, date of last review, intervals, date of next review. That way I can set my own intervals according to what I feel will work best. I can sort the spreadsheet so that all of the "due" passages show at the top.

Now, here is a screenshot of the progress I've been making with Luke:

In my personal life, I've been re-evaluating my time spent at this website; in the future, I think I'll just post a simple image of my progress in Luke, like the image above, and not say too much else. Starting in September my workload (for my job) will radically increase, and there's another consideration as well.

I've been thinking a lot lately about going back to reading the Bible -- yes, that old-fashioned reading of a Bible printed on paper! -- using a journal in which I write notes and a summary for each chapter, applications for those verses, and also concluding with a prayer. A devotional and study journal, if you will. In the future, I'd like to spend perhaps half of my "Bible time" doing that, doing that devotional / study reading of the Bible using a notebook, and the other half on Learn Scripture.

My goal in doing is to enable my focus to be more on the Lord Himself. Simply the act of using a computer, or a smartphone, has the potential for presenting many different distractions because of the plethora of different activities one may pursue on those devices.  Perhaps it is not a problem for the rest of you, but for me, I often find my focus to be "fractured", if you will.

Here are links to my previous reports:

https://telegra.ph/5-June-2023-Progress-Report-06-09

https://learnscripture.net/activity/256538/ That's a thread with a lot of comments; somewhere around the middle is my report for 5 July.

May the Lord bless each of you as you meditate upon His Word, as you learn more and more about Him and His ways, as You meditate on Him and on Who He is.

Thank you for reading.