The Bible can feel like a wall. It is long, old, and full of names and places you do not know. Many people open it once at the very first page, lose their footing within a few chapters, and quietly give up, believing the failure was theirs. It was not. They were simply never shown how to begin.
You do not read it like a novel, cover to cover, racing for the end. You read it slowly, in small pieces, as something meant to be sat with rather than finished. A good place to start is not page one but the life of Jesus, in the book of John or the book of Luke. Read a little. Stop. Let it work on you. A few honest verses taken slowly will do more than ten chapters skimmed.
Come to it with a simple, open question: what is being shown to me here about God, about people, about how to live. You will not understand everything, and you do not need to. Even people who have read it their whole lives are still learning from it. The goal is not mastery. The goal is to let words far older and wiser than the noise of the day speak into your actual life.
Read it honestly. If something troubles you, let it trouble you. If something moves you, stay there a moment. This is not a test to pass. It is a conversation to begin.
One small action
Read one short passage slowly
Read one short passage, slowly, just once. If you are unsure where to begin, try the opening of the Gospel of John, or a single Psalm such as Psalm 23. Do not rush. Read it twice if it is short. Then sit for a moment with whatever it stirred.