Learning to digest the spiritual food

I am not a person of New Year's resolutions. I have done this, but I have failed this. So I am contemplating on past, living present and looking out for future on a short term basis. I did decide to do one thing though. It is not that the New Year 2011 should be the starting point, it is just because I opened the Daily Bread booklet with today's date, that made me think of it.

The article is called "Eat fast, pay less" and the analogy was that sometimes we tend to fast-read through the bible passage since we already know it. Instead, we should stop, read slowly and "digest the spiritual food". Reading the bible without reflecting is like eating without chewing. 

Ponder on it, contemplate on it!...I know, I am the right case here. I want to know and read the bible, but it gets so overwhelming sometimes, I don't know where to start, I don't know how to interpret. I wish I had some guidance in it.

So, I decided to read less, and digest more. Maybe it is all about slowing down. It is about the quality more than about the quantity. One can read dozen of scriptures, but if none reaches the heart, the whole concept was missed, while one simple verse can open your mind, touch your heart, and you can live off of it for a long time.
Here it is then...Psalm 119:15 "I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways."

"Spending time in mediation,

Hiding Scripture in our heart,

Works in us a transformation

So from sin we can depart." - Sper