This blog is not automated by robots.
As yet I don’t think there is available technology to produce entries automatically and post them. From that you can be sage that I am still populating this blog with the updates its received. I’ve read a little bit here and there about how blogging is dead. I am glad to be a part of the afterlife of blogging if that’s the case. Blogging is one of those things I’ve loved doing since I started and in fact in recent years I’ve only loved it more and more as a method of expression and a practice in writing.
I have wanted to explore other areas of expression as well and some of that is still on the cards, but certainly for the time being blogging will be ongoing. No plans at the moment to stop. Still loving it and grateful for folks popping in to read what’s been posted.
One of the good things about the blogging has been its use as a marker of time. February 2019. I don’t think I’ve been able to write anything reviewing 2018 and on reflection that year was a very eventful one. A few significant developments on the personal front that would have been well worth recording here. No time, though. Just onto the next thing that I’ve been moved to write.
Among the opportunities that have opened up in recent weeks and months there’s been a chance to do something I love with words – get other people to love them too. That work is great fun and also requires a lot of preparation and research. With that not being the only thing I pursue the already very precious commodity of time has risen in value.
In all of that, the family remains a top priority. It’s fascinating noting how my daughters are changing as they grow. How that affects the dynamics of our relationships and how that also affects others. Loving people is not about seeking to control how they are. I am learning all the more it’s about taking responsibility for who I am and giving the best of myself without demanding a return on what I give. That can be very tough when the responses are not always favourable. There is, however, a great example of that where I am the beneficiary of great love even though my responses are not always favourable. It doesn’t change the love I receive. When I appreciate that, I also recognise that it’s not about making up for anything, it’s just about getting back in line with what is required of me and then loving as I am loved.
For a few weeks in January my wife and I were considering a few things and the result of those considerations have been really eye-opening. The beauty of living with a beautiful God-fearing woman is the quality of conversation you can get with her and the ability to stop and recognise where we need to make changes.
Change is inevitable, it’s whether or not we’re responsive to those changes and can see where we can be an agent for those changes. That’s requiring a lot of humility on my part and an ever growing realisation of just how much I depend on God for everything. That is not an easy journey to take. It remains a worthwhile one, though. So my beloved and I are working through those and as time goes on I look forward to sharing some of those changes with you, right here on this blog.
Thanks for your views, thanks for your prayers, thanks for your time and thanks for ensuring that blogging thrives in its after-life.
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Shalom
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