A Quick Comment on the nature of reading

A couple months ago I started sporadically riding the MAX to work. This provided me a solid hour plus of straight reading.

This has allowed me to rapidly progress through the Bible from Genesis to (as of today) Luke.

It is interesting to note there are several ways to read the Bible.

One of the more popular and, arguably, useful, ways of course is slowly and contemplatively. Take some time to mull over a verse, follow the train of thought, and see connections that way.

But there proves to be some merit, also, to a more cursory pass through. Reading at a rather frenetic pace of 50 - 60 pages per hour with no time allowed for pursuing tangents allows for an overview that draws together a lot of thoughts perhaps more difficult to pull together when it is months between reading say...Exodus and Micah.

This is not to say it is superior. Clearly, the more time you spend considering what you have read, the more depth it will add to your Spiritual comprehension.

At the same time, much like a class in Western Civilization typically bypasses deep looks into cause and effect in favor of a broad overview, a rapid read-through beginning to end gives a different view than more typical reading patterns.

Just something to think about.