This year, 2014, I resolve to maintain my efforts at blogging longer than for a single day.
As any reader can see, I failed to make more than one entry in the whole of 2013. No excuses. To put it bluntly, I just didn't do it. Hallelujah anyway! God is still with us.
There's a story behind that last expression, I shall tell it some other time.
Today, my comments will focus on blogging as an extremely popular means of expression and communicating opinion.
It seems that everyone blogs, even world famous Nobel laureates like Paul Krugman. My son, David, pastor of Central Westside United Church in Owen Sound ,Ontario, also blogs and posts his message on at least two or three websites as well as the local newspaper, the Owen Sound Sun-Times. Many ministers post the themes for their next Sunday'ssermons on their blogs.
I wonder how many blogs like this one are posted but not read by very many peoplpe, if any at all. Perhaps the best way to encourage an audience is to advertise it on several other comunicates sites - Facebook, for instance. (Good idea! Note to self: let your FB friends know about this.)
Why do we do this? Is it merely the stroking of one's ego? A lust for an audience ? Or could be a real desire to communicate something of worth for whoever happens to pass by?
One of the ways I would like to communicate what I have been writing during the past decade, not just for the past year, would be post the notes for the Bible study group of seniors I lead at Glen Abbey United Church next door to our seniors residence. We meet on Tuesday mornings from October to April. In recent months I have been sending out introductory notes and questions for discussion on the Fridays before each session. The group members seem to appreciate advance notice or an opportunity to follow our process if they happen to miss a session.
So begins the keeping of my first resolution of 2014.
Hallelujah anyway! God is still with us.
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