Khatam (again)

Khatam (Persian, Urdu) means final. I’m not an expert in those languages but I often hear it used when one finish reading a book, such as the Quran. In my case, I just finished reading the Bible, second round. Yay! Even better than last time (I think it was 3 years ago), I’m 5 days earlier. Not bad, eh?

I don’t have certain purpose on doing it, other than I think it’s something that needs to be done. A Christian has to finish read the entire Bible at least once in his/her life time. To dedicate an amount of time everyday to read a passage or two and finish them within a certain amount of time (in my case one year). It’s good to read a lot of portion of the Bible that don’t get read from the pulpit, even on the daily readings. Even on second round I felt surprised to read some parts as if I’ve never read them before. So it was good.

To be able to do this one needs to commit. One can find guides (plenty online) on how to do this. There are plenty of reading program provided. Last time I read from Genesis to Revelation, but this year I followed Bible Tool chronologically. It was interesting to see how some authors recorded a certain event with slightly different detail.

No plan for repeating this program on 2012, as I got piles of books to finish, it’s embarrassing to start something and not finish them. I think I got at least a dozen of unfinished books. So that’s one of my resolution for next year (already start now actually), to finish more books. Then I might take up the Bible again in 2013 (God willing).