By the way, thanks

I’d like to thank you for the privilege of writing a little daily something that for whatever reason you might find interesting or helpful.  Or maybe you come for the yummy cinnamon crunch bagels – oh wait, that’s Panera.

Since I began following Christ I’ve always made notes on note cards and yellow legal pads.  They’ve been phrases and bullet points that I understood but that I never tried to write out that anyone else might understand.  A mover once told me as he was hauling my ten-ton old metal file cabinet, “Ever heard of Microsoft?”  (Dude, I’m paying you to move it.)  Most of those twenty-plus years of notes are pretty useless and one day I’ll go thru it all.  There’s also a few thousand note cards in narrow cardboard boxes and desk drawers.  I’m organized enough to know what to keep but not enough to know where to keep it.  Poor Brenda. 

End of digression.  One purpose for this blog (since February) is to take my compulsive thinking and note-taking and discipline it to where it might be understandable and helpful to someone, instead of just making an extra buck for a mover.  It’s like learning a new job or your kids taking piano lessons – do it regularly, keep at it, mess up, refine refine refine, repeat, and maybe after awhile you become one with it and you’re making music and not just playing notes.

I’m starting to organize some ideas together to possibly make them more helpful.  From Beer to Eternity is on its own page – your emails and comments while I was writing it earlier this year were very encouraging.  From the beginning I didn’t want it to be as much about me or alcohol as about how Jesus can take a life and change everything about it – I hope it’s accomplished that some.  You can read the whole thing HERE.  (But that video of Brenda and me “singing” won’t be there long if she has her way.)

Getting to Red is a compilation of some posts a few months ago on having a quiet time, and the kind of quiet time I don’t have often enough – I’m guessing I’m not alone in that.  You can read that HERE.

And The God Show is being written now and will probably take the rest of the year, a few posts a week.  It’s about how God is really all over the place but is easily missed – the message is highly encouraging and challenging to me and I hope I can communicate it well enough for you to be, too..  You can keep up with it HERE. 

And The Art of Your Influence posts from earlier this year will all be together on their own page soon.

You’ll find links to all those on the right-hand sidebar under "other writings.".

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If you’ve found anything on this blog helpful, then you’re a source of great satisfaction for me.  Thank you.  And I’d like to give you a small gift in appreciation.  It’s a little book with a message that I think is most important but greatly ignored or misunderstood.  There are 50 brief chapters intended to be read one-per-day.  It says things I believe and want to live by better and more clearly than anything else I’ve read.  It’s The Indwelling Life of Christ by Major Ian Thomas.  Email me (above left) or leave a comment and we’ll do a little drawing over the weekend and let you know the results on Monday.  Thank you again for giving me someone to think and write for besides myself.

Comments

[tracy]

No thank you! Your posts have made me think, laugh, and Praise God even more!!
Tracy

[Bonita]

Now I know where Nester and Emily get their writing genes! Will y'all adopt me?

I'm right there with you on the paper and note cards. I don't know if it's a general mistrust of computers or the fact that I'm a hands-on person who has to see and feel and touch my writing before it seems real.

[Laura Taylor Glunt]

What a great idea - to pass on something you have found helpful.
ltglunt

[Kathy Frazier]

I check in on your blog daily, and have found much encouragement here! Please enter me in your drawing for the book.
Thanks!!
Kathy F.