I hear exactly what you are saying!
I’ve been reading Bill Mounce’s book “Learning Greek for the rest of us” recently. A lot of the book he devotes to something called ‘Phrasing’ where he takes a bible passage and breaks it down into smaller chunks so they are easier for simple human beings like all of us to understand. He said, he started off by photocopying the bible passage and literally cutting up the text into phrases. He the got into using computers and found he could do it all much faster. However he also realised that slowing down is actually an advantage in bible study. It sounds like he now actually writes out the phrases, the slowest of them all but also allowing the most room for contemplation and understanding.

- James