Even in terms of leisure, I’ve formed the habit of filling my day with lots of little activities. For a long time, I’ve been remembering my younger years, and how I might have sat down and read a whole book in one go – in a day or perhaps over a weekend.
These days I’m inclined to read 10 pages, get bored or distracted, and go off and do something else 😀. Perhaps I should consider “mindful reading.” I didn’t know what mindful meant when I was younger, but I think that it’s an approach that we can take instinctively, but we can lose good habits.
Perhaps I shouldn’t think in terms of getting the book finished, but simply to spend most of the day relaxing and comprehending what I’m reading. And I want to gently push aside intrusive thoughts that tell me that I’d be better off doing something else.
Anyway, perhaps I can set a day aside this week 😀. I can pretend that I’m in solitary confinement and that this is the only book that I’ll ever get.
I’m not necessarily speaking of the Bible. I can practice with any book, but I always like to include a couple of hymns in my posts – so here goes:
Hibernia Gospel 
I tend to treat the Bible like a smorgasbord, I dip into it and dip out. My wife, on the other hand, reads it cover to cover and has done several times. She is more disciplined.
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