Planner Trackers for Bible Reading

 So with 2025 just around the corner I wanted to do my planner trackers. I plan this every year and never use them so this year I got started a few weeks ago and began making my own, customised to what I want, in the hopes that I'll actually use it.

One of the trackers I can never find and have decided to make is a proper Bible reading tracker. I want to do more reading this year and so have created some pages to help me.

One tracker is just to make journal notes about what scripture I've read and what my thoughts were. I wanted it to suit any plan I was doing so I kept it generic.

However I come across bible verses quite a bit and never get to track what I've covered already. My verse of the day email, the bible plan I'm doing, what verses are covered in mass, and the ones I just come across day-to-day. To track those I've created a way to cross off just the verses I've read, coloured in like a habit tracker.

Below is a sample. I'm in the middle of creating them all as PDF files. With one book as a PDF file. As I create them I'll add them up here. So far I've only done the first three books.

 

There are many lovely trackers to cross off or track whole books but none for chapters or verses, at least not that I've found. So many plans jump around a lot so I wanted something that would cover everything. If you want them in Chapter format, I've done that in full first because it was easier. The verse trackers are time consuming to create so I'll add them as I create them. As of December 2024 there are only 3 for now.

They're plain so that you can add your own style to them. They're A4 formatted but PDFs can convert to A5 pretty easily if needed. Each link is a separate PDF which should open in a new window so you don't lose this page.

I'm also aware there are different books in some versions of the Bible. If you want an added book just leave a comment with info and I'll try and add it. I may not be able to add things right away but I'll definitely try.

For the chapter tracker I've included the Apocrypha at the end as a separate page. If you don't want it just skip the last page.

Bible Chapter Tracker

Verse Tracker - 1 Genesis 

Verse Tracker - 2 Exodus 

Verse Tracker - 3 Leviticus 

Update: July 2025

Here are the next few.

Verse Tracker - 4 Numbers

Verse Tracker - 5 Deuteronomy

Verse Tracker - 6 Joshua

Shakespeare and my Essay

Well it's actually happening. I've been watching 12th Night and I'm actually understanding what's going on. It's a miracle! Actually it's a lovely production. A quite old (1979) BBC production with Felicity Kendall. But it's classic Shakespeare and by chance I hired the book of the exact same production which is great to use as a guide. I can hardly wait until tomorrow night so I can finish it and then read some of the notes included with the book I borrowed. Then I will watch it again without following the script. It's great to finally understand some of this stuff.

About my essay. From previous posts you'll know I've been on a literary conquest. Well what I haven't explained is why. I hope to study in 09 and in order to do that I have to first of all read things other than Cleo and the TV guide and secondly I have to remember (actually just learn in general) how to study. I haven't even tried to write an essay in five years and they were childish at best when I did. However I do have one person who can help me and that is my Mum. She is big on literature, essays and study so thankfully I have until the end of the year to learn how to write a decent essay, practice some study techniques and get myself back in to thinking academically.

I've been writing an essay on Russia because I never studied Modern History at school and am finding it fascinating but sad. So many wars, so many people lost. Well that is enough for tonight. After my Russian essay and Shakespeare I want to just read a little Tolstoy and then go to sleep. Night all.

Poetry

Poetry. Something literary in this world I've never understood. Sure I've read some kids poems and one of the famous poems from Wind in the Willows (Ducks' Ditty) was actually a song in our family but poetry hasn't ever been part of my life...until now.

If you've read my recent posts you'll know I'm on a bit of a literary conquest. At some point I'd like to read Proust, Tolstoy and maybe finally manage to get in to Jane Austen (someone I just can't seem to read). However at the moment I'm reading something simpler and so I have a little time to look at some poetry. Now because I'm so ignorant when it comes to poetry I called on the help of my Mum. She is big on poetry and has been reading it to me every so often and then we talk about it afterwards.

What has this got to do with the price of eggs in London you ask? Well tonight I'm proud to say I just read my first ever adult poem all on my own. And I reckon I actually understood it. For the most part anyway. The poem was called Qua Cursum Ventus and was by A.H. Clough. It's about some ships and wasn't too hard.

Perhaps this poetry this isn't that complicated after all.

Qua Cursum Ventus - by  A.H. Clough

AS ships, becalm’d at eve, that lay

With canvas drooping, side by side,
Two towers of sail at dawn of day
Are scarce long leagues apart descried;
When fell the night, upsprung the breeze,	5
And all the darkling hours they plied,
Nor dreamt but each the self-same seas
By each was cleaving, side by side:
E’en so—but why the tale reveal
Of those whom, year by year unchanged,	10
Brief absence join’d anew to feel,
Astounded, soul from soul estranged?
At dead of night their sails were fill’d,
And onward each rejoicing steer’d:
Ah, neither blame, for neither will’d,	15
Or wist, what first with dawn appear’d!
To veer, how vain! On, onward strain,
Brave barks! In light, in darkness too,
Through winds and tides one compass guides,—
To that, and your own selves, be true.	20
But O blithe breeze, and O great seas,
Though ne’er, that earliest parting past,
On your wide plain they join again,
Together lead them home at last!
One port, methought, alike they sought,	25
One purpose hold where’er they fare,—
O bounding breeze, O rushing seas,
At last, at last, unite them there!

Reading, Reading, Reading

Recently I've been reading again. Now this might not sound complicated or special but for me it is and here is why. As a kid I was a bookworm. I'd read every spare moment I got. However as I got older my friend/s (one in particular) would get more and more annoyed at me and my Mum and then my Dad told me to stop reading and go out instead. So I changed to TV and by then they'd given up and I was hooked on TV.

However...recently I've been watching old episodes of the Gilmore Girls. This show is one of the few I missed the start of and have been watching the old episodes and loving them. Watching the daughter is a little like watching myself if people hadn't told me to stop reading and we hadn't moved house so much. So I've begun reading again.

I started with Anita Shreeve of whom I've read a book before, about two years ago, and quite enjoyed. The book before was called Light on Snow which I quite liked.

This new one however a couple of weeks ago was called Sea Glass. 

 

Now both of these were very nice (although I wanted Sea Glass to end differently so the main character would be happy) but it got me started on Isabelle Allende's Daughter of Fortune.

Daughter of Fortune was also quite good (although again I would have liked an extra chapter to tie the stories off more neatly). But this one and Sea Glass have done is get me reading so when I had the chance to borrow another book from my Mum I did.

This last book I've read was called Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin (pronounced “Lee Schwin Sing” according to his website). It was wonderful. The book was a mix between a bit of a historical look at China through a child's/teenager's eyes and an auto biography. I made up my mind as soon as I'd finished it that I would never complain about running out of Milk ever again.

I felt such appreciation for what I have grown up with and shock when I read about some of the poverty for my parents generation. What changes those of my grandparents generation must have seen!

Now I am on to another book and am loving this world I am finding of new books, ideas and authors. When I stopped reading I'd read the same authors over and over and over. Now I'm enjoying the fun of discovering the joy of a new author and highly recommend Mao's Last Dancer. It was truly a wonderful book.