Moving Forward Or Falling Back

This past weekend I experimented with mobile blogging, just two quick posts. I must admit, it leaves a lot to be desired, but I guess it may have some applicability to my blog if I am overly mobile and need to blog on the run, in which case it is probably good that the blog posts have to be short. In my condition, I would not be able to run all that far before the process of breathing would take up so much of my attention and strength to make the possibility of continued blogging a far fetched concept.

But I thought I would try it (jury is out, but the early reviews are not enthusiastic. Which is ironic since I like short blog posts. But I guess maybe not that short). At least the capability is enabled and available to me. And isn't that important today, to have things available to us, whether we want them or not; whether we use them or not. It seems that's when we get most agitated, when we lose access to something available, whether we really need it or not. We are beyond wanting things we need, beyond wanting things we want; we are at the point of wanting things we want to want.

As I reflect on this, it seems like I have to move forward or I begin to lose precious ground, at least as far as the world is concerned (at least as far as the world is concerned when it isn't concerned about wanting the things it wants to want).

Progress, per se, is not bad. Progress for the wrong reason is. If I can use this to communicate better on this blog, so much the better. If it is just another bell and whistle available to my whim and fancy, it is not all that good. Not at all. I do not like change for change's sake (no more than I like want for the sake of wanting to want).

So where do I look for progress first and foremost? In my faith:

For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:6 (New American Standard Bible)

If He stops my forward progress, I have big problems. Because His is progress for the good, not change for change's sake. So it is change that I want, and more importantly, change that I need.

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Paths and Choices and Seasons

I read last night of a friend who decided to shut down her blog, maybe permanently. She started roughly the same time as I did, we have only met on the internet, I have enjoyed her blogging and hope she has enjoyed mine half as much.

And we are not alone in revisiting why we started to blog. I have watched as a couple of other blog friends have gone through a similar journey. Maybe there is such a thing as a two year itch in blogging.

It is interesting for me to think I went through quite a dry spell this summer and have only recently seemed to enjoy blogging on a more consistent basis. Many times I thought I was through but something kept the spark alive. So I labor on, with one less friend to read as I walk down my own road on this journey.

What keeps one doing this? I am not sure, but hopefully there is a purpose to the time spent doing this. Those of us who blog may never know the majority of people who read our posts; may never know who those posts touch, who they encourage, who they make stop and think. Every once on a while I get some affirmation, and it surprises me to think anyone is not only reading me, but actually taking in what I blog about occasionally. The tree is not always falling soundlessly in the forest.

I have been encouraged by others over the past two plus years to continue this; and I must say it feels right to continue. It feels right. There are days I am sure I will never think of another thing to blog, but it feels right.

So it comes down to paths and choices. It comes down to seasons of time and what we do during them. Hopefully we all make the right choices, walk the paths without stumbling, enjoy and adapt to the seasons in our lives. I know that as long as I follow hard after Jesus, the right choices will come to me. Because in my faith walk, that is what paths and choices come down to. Following hard after my faith in Christ, in Him alone for my eternal future.

I know my friend made the right choice to stop and at the right time, because her faith in Christ is strong, and she follows it.

So really there is not much to decide in paths and choices and seasons ahead of us if we follow His will.

And that is what I will seek to do each day as I go down The Narrow Road.

The Momentum of Inertia

I have not posted a blog entry in over a month, and I have to tell you the time pretty much sped by, blog-wise at least. At first it did not bother me, then I started to feel like maybe I should pout a post up, but nothing came to mind. Then an very interesting feeling set in; I felt it had been so long that any post needed to be deep and profound, as if to justify my lack of activity. It was sort of, hey, I know I have been missing, but look at what I have for you now. Aren't glad I waited? Aren't you glad you did too?

Well, this is not that post. Sorry, and I do not mind if you stop reading now. No profound revelations are forthcoming, so profound to allow you to revel in the profundity of the moment.

Just spent the last two weeks in a seminary course, 3 hours every morning studying the Gospels. Great lectures by Dr. Mark Bailey at DTS, but oh so fast the material sped by. Bible study should be a marathon, not a sprint. But I think I got through, although time will tell if I made the grade when it posts on my transcript. We shall see.

So, having spent two weeks studying the most profound text in existence, I decided I needed to post an entry here and break the string. One of my goals was to keep the blog alive in 2010. This post is tantamount to me yelling "Clear!" and trying to shock it back to life. The text of truth led me back to one realization; I can never get as deep as scriptural revelation; and no one is expecting me to anyway. So I might as well jump back in the fray.

I hope things get deeper moving forward, but I know that things at least need to get started. No one goes deep standing still. One goes stale instead. If you are struggling with your own blog posts (and I know some of you are), take comfort from the fact that movement is movement and

That's the depth of things today.

A Post to my Slog, er, Blog

Putting up blog posts in 2010 have been a challenge for me, just check my archive list to see just how challenging this year has been. I am making a major goal of 2010 to be still blogging in January 2011.

But every once in a while someone gives me encouragement that keeps me going. Unexpected encouragement coming from previously unknown directions. Yesterday I had two of those, so I just had to write about it to keep the blog moving along for at least another day. A new follower on twitter sent me a tweet telling me she will be following the blog. Someone from my church read a post of mine on my Facebook wall (made for the blog at the ministry I work at) and found it encouraging today. Not my blog, but it was my post, and I'll take it from whence it comes.

Just a line or two but a big boost to my determination to keep things going. Thank you both. I am always appreciative of the comments and encouragement any of my social media endeavors get. There is so much going on that it is nice to know that people notice your small voice in the thunderstorm raging all around you.

So, I will try to be faithful to the blog for the remainder of 2010. While I do not expect it to be easy, I am sure I will be glad if I keep it going. God has used it to bless me over these past two years, and I am glad I took that first step in this journey.

So my advice to any fellow bloggers, keep going, we do not slog alone. And actually, it is pretty good advice for life in general. Keep going,we are not alone. Reminds me of one of my favorite passages of Scripture, which I have used before:

For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:6 (NASB)

I have to remember this every time I struggle through something in my life. So I will have to think of it daily, but no more than seven days a week. Max. If I am a work in progress, faith in Him requires I keep going until He says I am done.

I Am Starting To Feel Bad

About my lack of posting lately. But, apparently not bad enough to start up actively and semi-regularly. I am not sure why this is, if it is an extension of my blog hiatus of the summer, making the activity of September to November something of a dead cat bounce. An interesting comment given the picture of the pooch. Whatever, it is an extended dry period. And the picture is designed to elicit some comment, even if not about the blog topic itself.

In any event, it is not for a lack of activity in my life, there is much going on. Maybe it is for a lack of time to devote to blogging and musing over topics. It is not due to any crisis of faith that I am not blogging, I am going as strong as ever and seeking the Lord daily.

I am just not in the mood or right frame of mind to write about it. I apologize to anyone who enjoys seeing my posts (it is possible you know). I will spend some time in prayer, thinking about why I am off the grid for so long. And I will pray for guidance to start writing again. Your prayers are appreciated too. But whatever I do, I give it up to Him to guide me in my faith.

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I Passed A Stone The Other Day

A milestone that is...my 500th blog post. I just realized it and it made me think about where this blog is going. I still do not know, but I feel the need to keep moving and seeking the Lord's face continually.

As long as the ruminations of this blog keep allowing me to do that, I will keep blogging. I guess that is progress; from writing about what I want to seeking Him and writing what He wants. Huge progress. I feel that this is no longer just my blog, but it is becoming His as well. I know I will have really begun to make progress when I feel it is no longer mine at all but His alone. I feel that then the journey on The Narrow Road can truly begin. Imagine, it took 500+ posts to begin to realize, understand and accept that.

I look forward to passing that next stone.

Dead Bloggers Society

I did not blog during the period of June 28 and September 18, 2009. I found an interesting statistic during this time. The subscriptions to my blog stayed about the same, and on some days actually went up. More people were subscribing when I was not blogging. I am now about where I was before I took my hiatus. We will see where the subscriptions go from here, now that I am semi-active again.

It just proves that bloggers, like artists, poets, and the occasional president, are more popular when people think they are dead.

Awakening

I have not blogged in a while, and it has been a productive use of my time, a centering of my core as it were. The desire to take a break from blogging was building for a while, and I was not sure where it was coming from. With the thought and reflection that has accompanied the absence of a daily blog, I believe it has become clear to me why I felt the need to stop for a bit.

I was blogging daily (not that there is anything wrong with that) and started to think in terms of streaks and stamina (the metrics driven life). It came from a desire to give my reader(s) consistency, I felt the need to blog daily, no matter what. It turned out to be a misguided notion, in that I blogged because I had to, not because I had something to say.

I really felt I was saying the same thing over and over. If I cannot expand my journey, I am wasting your time even more than I am wasting mine. My posts were staying on the surface, I was not getting deep into my feelings, my spiritual journey, my struggles and concerns.

Going forward, I will try to blog in a more heartfelt manner, and it will not be on a set schedule or pattern. This may be cause for celebration for those who bother to read, knowing that any given day may be free from having to read a new post from me

So, I am back to see how round two goes. I have almost started up the blog again and half a dozen times, once coming within ten minutes of publishing a post, but something has held me back until now. I knew I had to wait until I really felt ready, really felt the call to do this again. I knew I had to wait until this was no longer my timing.

I figure the worst thing (or the best thing) that will happen is that I will stop blogging and wasting everyone's time again.

A Narrowly Missed Anniversary

It was one year ago tomorrow that the first post appeared on The Narrow Road. At that time I was not sure where this was going (I am still not), what I would post on (still not sure what i actually covered) and if anyone would bother to read it (I mean why, really, why?).

As I look back, it is clear to me that I have gotten the most benefit out of the blog (not being selfish, just realistic). It even inspired a project for one of my seminary classes, A Trinity of 3, a blog that got me through trinitarianism in one piece last semester. Never would have done that if I had not been doing this.

I pray that those that read this blog got some benefit out of my meanderings, I have appreciated your input and comments over the past year. It amazed me that I found something to write about every day, I have posted daily since September 24th of last year. Was not trying to set any sort of record, it was what it was.

But at this time, I feel the need for a break. So, I will be taking a sabbatical from blogging for an as of yet undetermined period of time. It is clear that I find my faith walk and reflections thereon the prime topic of my blogging, and right now I need to spend time immersed in that without thinking about writing about it.

This is a pretty rigorous social media fast. I have stopped tweeting, have already blown up my Twitter account. I have deactivated Facebook. This is the last step. A 40 day blog fast. Maybe. As far as the others, we will see if we go back.

Thank you for the past year. With the Lord's grace, I will figure out the next steps. I hope to be here again in the future.

The Last Holdout

I was checking my Google Analytics recently. I do not check all that often, but I do look on occasion. I realized that there is a hold out to reading my blog (OK, there are billions of holdouts, but I am talking one specific measure here). There has been a reader from every state in the US.

Except one.

North Dakota.

I have nothing against the state other than no one who lives there has read my blog. I mean, I have watched the movie Fargo several times, it is one of my favorites. Yah. I haven't visited the state, but have it on a list of things to do in my life.

If you are from North Dakota and are reading this, well, you solved my problem. If you aren't, thanks for stopping by! If you know someone who lives in North Dakota, can you tell them about my blog?

I would love to see the state colored in on the map on the Google report. It is the little things in life that bring a smile to the face.

The Short Order Cook

Several people who blog and follow my blog have made a similar comment about my blogging style. It does not take me long to catch on to a pattern (Yes it does) or to what people are saying about me (YES it does).

But this one I have known for a while. My blog posts are short (most of the time) and to the point (some of the time).

Short and sweet.

The short order cook.

For those of you who know me personally (as in person and not just on the internet), short and sweet is never a way anyone would describe me. Neither short and sweet, nor short, nor sweet.

But it is a style I have grown accustomed to, based on some advice I got early in my blogging career. Advice that fits into my personality. I am usually a man of few words.People sometimes take my personality for indifference or inattention, but I am taking it all in, I just usually have nothing to say about it. So it goes with my blogging. I guess it isn't that I do not care about people, I just do not want to show how much I care. A basic character flaw I am sure.

How short is too short for me in my blog posts? The one I do not write is too short. All the others are fine.

I hope you like this style, because I am not going to change it any time soon.

OK, this has gone on long enough.

Become A Friend of "My Christian Blogs"

This great idea is the Brain Child of Tony Kummer. He has created My Christian Blogs as a place, a crossroads of Christian blogging for all of us to stop by and see what is out in the blogosphere being done by our brothers and sisters in Christ, aggregated in one place for us to view.

Stop by to sample the goods and participate.

Why is it all the good ideas are taken by someone else by the time I see them and think them up for myself?

Thanks Tony, for serving the Lord with a true servant's heart.

A Cracked Vessel

That's me, a cracked vessel, unable to keep all the water of life He pours into me from leaking out.

I am constantly amazed at how loving God is that He would fill me up continuously, constantly yet with patience and grace.

As I think of my school work, He seems to bring me through when I thought I had hit a dry patch.

As I think of writing this blog, I am amazed that He takes the time to put thoughts into my head each day as to what I should write about. As I think of my school project blog, A Trinity of 3 (which I hope you visit and comment on -- shameless plug and fishing for traffic), I am amazed at how He guides me to write about the Trinity as I progress through the course. When my mind is dry and i turn to Him, I get filled up every time.

It is good that He has an infinite supply of the living water, because I keep on leaking, each and every day.

The Narrow Road Guest Blogs Today

I am a guest blogger at World Prayer today. Some of my thoughts that I have shared with you on the topic of prayer are there today. Please check them out daily, even if you do not go by today. They have some good people associated with their purpose and their blog.

I Am All Over the Place

I look back over my blogging activity going back to last June when I started and I marvel at one thing. Not that I am still blogging (wait, I do marvel at that, but only daily); not that anyone reads my blog or comments on it (wait, I do marvel at that, but only every hour on the half-hour); but at the unbelievable lack of organization of it all:

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• service (6)
• serving (1)
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• Sin (5)
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• social media (3)
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• socks (1)
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• Son (2)
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• spotlight (1)
• Spring Creek Barbeque consulting (1)
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• Star of Bethlehem (2)
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• Starbucks (5)
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• storm (2)
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• teaching (1)
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• Technorati (1)
• Telos Bible Church (3)
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• Texas (8)
• Thanksgiving (1)
• The 80's (1)
• The Confessions (2)
• The Daily Spurgeon (3)
• The Exchange (1)
• The Great Blogoff (1)
• The Leader Board (1)
• The Pursuit of God (2)
• The Voice of God (1)
• theology (2)
• Things I've Done (1)
• Thurdays (1)
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• Tim Hawkins (2)
• time (1)
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• travel (2)
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• trinity (2)
• Triune God (1)
• trust (3)
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• Truth for Life (1)
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• Wayne Grudem (1)
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• West Coast (1)
• Westminister Confession of Faith (1)
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• who am i? (1)
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• workload (2)
• Worship (2)
• Wrath (1)
• Writer's block (1)
• WWF (1)
• Zechariah (1)
• Zombies (1)

Those are the tags I have put on over 400 blog posts. And they tell me one thing:

I have been all over the place with little rhyme or reason.

Me, a retired business executive, former CFO, a CPA. And I revel in the disorganized chaos of a daily blog post. After all, it is April 15th. You would think a CPA would say something about taxes. (OK, I just did, satisfied?)

It is strangely liberating.

Maybe you should try it.