How Moving House has Affected my Memorising!

Well it WAS going well… till we moved house in July. I in my high idealistic thinking had imagined that it would just mean stopping for a few weeks, which I did. But it was way worse than that – I tried to resume it and limped along very slowly and haltingly.


I called this the ‘junk room’ – it has only just become our bedroom, finally 🙂

I am supposed to be memorising three new verses and reviewing three of the most recent chapters I’ve learnt each day. However some days I would manage to memorise only one of my three verses for the day without review, and other days I would manage to review a chapter or so but not memorise anything new.

Being that it is pointless to memorise more verses if I can’t remember the ones I have learned already, review is vital! But there has been so much going on after moving, with trying to get everything straight, and get the house the way we need it, unpack, keep children happy and so on. So it has been really hard to have any time where my brain was free to actually memorise. And when I did have time, I didn’t have the mental energy!

The result is that I am very behind, not really surprisingly 🙂 I am supposed to be up to about chapter 13, and instead I am just starting chapter 9. So I had a good talk to myself and decided I had to figure out a different plan.

It am only answerable to myself, so I think I will give myself an extension of three or so months if I need it! And I have also decided that I will do the review of the majority of the chapters I have learned so far on Sundays, and if I don’t get to it, then Monday etc. On those days then I won’t memorise anything new. This will mean I won’t have as much to review on the days that I memorise new verses – which will help a lot!

The remaining days I will just go over the last few verses I learned, plus three or four new ones, and then work backwards, reviewing as many chapters as I have time for over the day which will make sure the newest ones get covered at least. I think I may also take a couple of days each time I finish a chapter, just to go over it and make sure I know it well.

I think if I was to do it all over again I would schedule a three month break from memorising for settling into the new house, and just go over the old stuff! But even though it has been slow, it has still been a blessing, and God has spoken to me through some of the verses I have memorised.

My favourite verse from the last few months is this one: