LAUGH FOR TODAY: I got my laugh early this morning reading an article by Ted Olsen in Christianity Today online about the “death of blogs” and how 200 million who blogged last year are no longer blogging this year. Maybe, as the article suggests, the shakeout will be good, with fewer blogs of mediocre blather and more of substance. Regardless, here I am–HA!–just joining the blogosphere.
My timing is, as usual, a little off. This is how I often feel in life–a step behind everybody else. “A day late and a dollar short” as the saying goes. (It started at 12 when I was still wearing PJs with feet when the other girls had baby-doll pajamas.) Do you ever feel that way? You cut your hair shorter just when everyone starts growing theirs out. You wear your jeans too high in a low-rider world. You finally catch on, only to discover everyone else is moving on.
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR TODAY: I might feel like I’m running behind the pack, but regardless of how I feel, God knows exactly where I am and He can use me, right here, right now.
Be encouraged no matter how “out of it” you feel, that you are loved and usable–exactly where you are.
Relax. Laugh. Take a deep breath, and go bless somebody else today.
Yeah, we don’t need to imitate what other people think or do, we shouldn’t worry about keeping up with the “Jones’”. Ephiesians 5:1 “Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children.”
People are eager to declare the next big thing “dead”, usually because that thing reduced the power they once had.
Call it blogging, tumblelogging, posting to your site or whatever… fresh content will always be in demand.
Thanks so much for stopping in and saying hello! I hope you don’t mind if I put up a ‘welcome to the blogosphere’ post tomorrow. Let me know. I am off to read the excerpt to your new book…somehow I know that I will be able to relate