THIS BLOG HAS A BIRTHDAY!

“But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.”  (Matthew 14:6)

This week, this blog has a birthday!  It’s one year old, having been started on this week in 2006.  Will we have someone doing a Middle Eastern belly dance to celebrate as King Herod did for his birthday?  I think not!  (As an aside, Jehovah’s Witnesses do not celebrate birthdays because anytime a birthday is mentioned in the Bible it’s for a worldly occasion by people who are not followers of God.  Conversely, the only religious group I’ve ever heard of who doesn’t celebrate birthdays are the JWs!  Born-Again Christians - like me - LOVE to celebrate birthdays.  I know the blog is not a person, but since I started the blog, I’m considering this week is the blog’s “birthday”!)

I sort of started the blog with fear and trembling.   At that time, I had only recently learned that “blog” is short for “web log”.  I thought only really computer savvy people had blogs.  I DID read an article in “Leadership”, a journal for ministers, which strongly encouraged ministers to start and maintain their own blogs.  I HAD tried to start a blog in November 2005, but “chickened out”.    I got my courage up on the first week of February of 2006 and I’ve been at it ever since.

The greatest thrill I had (regarding the blog) was being featured in the Framingham Tab newspaper during the summer of 2006 because of my blog!  I later learned that Michelle Swartz who writes the blog “This is Framingham”
had suggested they contact me.  I’m very grateful to her for that, and I’ve been a reader of her blog ever since.

I’m very opinionated and I like to write.  Over the years I have submitted a number of letters and columns to the MetroWest Daily News.   Some have been run, and some have not.   What I like about the blog is that I don’t have to deal with any newspaper editors who “don’t get” what I’m writing.  I can post stuff right here.

I have a lot of fun writing this blog.  I am thrilled when I run into someone who reads it.  I do get disappointed when I don’t think enough people are reading it and I don’t think enough people are contacting me about what I’ve written, but I understand that just “goes with the turf” when you write a blog.  The Lord willing, I’ll still be writing it one year from today (see James 4:13-15).  Well, if I were Jay Severin of 96.9 FMTalk I’d be making that kazoo noise he makes when he speaks of his radio program having a birthday!

(Please read the piece that follows this one, entitled, ‘MY BIGGEST COMPLAINT ABOUT AOL JOURNALS’.)