June 2026 – CoffeeSig

Reading my Bible

On June 4, 2026

I started keeping track of my daily Bible reading on February 9, 2026. I read only one chapter per day when I got started and it took me three years, nine months to work my way through the whole Bible. The first read was in the KJV. Since then I have increased my pace, for awhile, reading through the Bible two and a half times per year, but now have settled back to two times per year. When I finish my current read, God willing, I will have been all the way through the Bible fourteen times not including the reading Lorena and I do together for our Sunday and Wednesday worship. I have read through the KJV ten times, but have decided to give that a rest for awhile. I am currently making my way through my first full read of the NKJV. I have done full reads through the ESV, NASB, and NIV. Going forward I hope to rotate through the ESV, NASB, and NKJV for awhile doing only full reads. For quite awhile, I read through the New Testament several times after each read through the whole Bible. All told, I have been through the New Testament fifty time if you include the full reads in that count. This has been of immeasurable help to me in my spiritual life and beyond. I will try to periodically put up a report of where I am in my reading.

Front of the house rendering

By ken

On June 3, 2026

In Texas house

I did a pretty good render of the front of the house we want to build, God willing.

House selling requires patience

By ken

On June 2, 2026

In Texas house

We got the report back from our house showing last Friday and from two people who came to the open house on Sunday afternoon. The people on Friday loved the house, but the living room was smaller than they expected. The two on Sunday were both work-from-home couples and were worried about the fact that all we have is StarLink for broadband internet. We were relieved that the issues were fundamentally different from the first four or five visitors who all thought the house is to close to a main road (it is not). It was a nice reminder that there are a lot of things that influence buyers over which we have no control, but that it only takes one to pull the trigger. That one is harder to find when the market conditions are not optimal with high interest rates right now. In the end, it really just takes patience. We have been very fortunate in the houses we have sold over the years, only Albany, Oregon took us longer than a couple of months and that eventually sold when we were not expecting it. So, we have decided we just need to be patient. It is all in God’s hands. We cannot start the Texas house until this house sells and that is OK. We actually love living here.