I mentioned the other day that I’m working on a fairly major blog upgrade, and that I’d keep you all in the loop. Much to my amazement, there actually seemed to be a little bit of interest in the subject. So, I’ll share the beginning of my adventure and see where we go from there.
I started blogging back in 2011, and essentially, I started it as a writing exercise just for me. The idea was that I wanted to get my little brain back to the point where I could write something immediately when prompted like I used to do when I had my first job out of college starting in 1981.
As far as blogging goes, I knew exactly… Nothing.
I got back into the writing part, not very good writing, but I could do it, and then, for no reason that I know of, people started following my blog. It was only a few at first, but over time, I got better at it and more followed. I was curious and learned a little about blogging by reading the WordPress help pages, more followed, and it occurred to me that this little exercise had some real ministry potential.
Time went on, my blog grew, but was never huge or anything like that, yet I knew that it was making an impact, primarily from contacts readers made privately from all over the world.
Wow – Amazing!
Time flew by, I was away from regular blogging for a while taking care of my 95-year-old mother, and then the pandemic and WP changed everything when I wasn’t looking, my wife and I moved from Iowa to Florida to “retirement” (whatever that really is) and I blogged a little and used this as a platform for ministry activities I was involved in. During this period, I had a growing discomfort about my blog, and how I was neglecting it. I finally got to the point where I made a commitment to make this blog my top priority. At about the same time, we realized that due to some unfortunate circumstances that I’ll skip for now, we would return to Iowa after 5 years away.
That was last summer.
Since then, I’ve tried some things and done a fair amount of research about blogs and blogging. It hasn’t gone as smoothly as I might like, but there isn’t much I can do about that except trust that God will show me a way to overcome the obstacles in my path. You see, I have no doubts concerning the reason for all of this; God still has some work for me to do. This is true even though I am not as bright as I used to be and am a functional illiterate at this point because of my delightfully bad vision. Yes, despite all this, God has a job for me, and even though I am weak, He is strong, and He will provide all the things I lack to get His job accomplished.
In this, I fully expect that I have embarked on the best and most exciting adventure of my life, and make no mistakes, I’ve had some pretty good ones already.
That’s probably quite enough for today, if you are still reading, I thank you. If you are interested in more posts like this, please drop me a comment. With that, thanks again for reading, and I’ll see you next time!
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