In blogging you’re always looking at your hit count. How many people are going to your blog? Are you connecting? Are you scratching an itch?
Of course the numbers get skewed downward by RSS readers, cross over postings that appear as notes on Facebook and other places, but you still watch your hit count.
June was an all time high for my hit count. WOW! It was a great blessing to me. So thank you.
We’re taking a few days away using a family condo at the beach over an extended 4th of July weekend,
but I’ll be back the first of the week, talking about things that I hope are real in your life. Not theory, not something rehashed from a textbook, but real relationship building, in the world, community relevant stuff.
See you in community, where Jesus needs to be shared.
Twice in the past month I’ve blogged about Tweeter in churches. 
Is there a use for churches on May 3rd, then on May 25th some info about a few churches that are using Tweeter around the country. Here is a link to an article in the Florida Times Union that talks about Tweeter in some Jacksonville churches.
There’s still a major division of opinions, from ““God has something to say to you today … but he won’t be calling your cell phone. Please silence your cell phones and other devices.” to “It’s just a different way of distributing the gospel, basically.”
Close your eyes, bow your heads, start tweeting?
Leading into the summer months my wife got very excited about a VBS curriculum entitled Crocodile Dock. The more she read the more excited she became about how her kids at church would love the Crocodile Dock experience. Of course I got pulled into her excitement and our journey began. Late nights and weekends building back drops and sets, recruiting a support team and then the launch.
One part of Crocodile Dock is God Sightings. The children are encouraged to look throughout the week for times when they see God and report back the following week. How cool is this!! After the first week, the kids came in and told how they saw God in their lives since the last meeting. They were learning how God is so big He is everywhere and is constantly in our lives teaches us all.
We, Kathy and I have started journaling God sightings in our lives over the past week. It’s easy to be too consumed in man made events and circumstance and move from God. We are determined to be vigilant and have our God radar up everyday. Some of our God sightings (blessings) have been: a huge breakthrough in paying for my cardio-rehab sessions that started last Friday, a simple-parking-spot-near-the-door-at-Walmart-on-Saturday, hugs from my daughter, protection from injury in a car accident, a text message from my son, a turtle creeping across our backyard, many, many, many words of encouragement from friends in difficult days.
I don’t know what the God sighting will be today. I just know that there will be one. I know that there will be enough grace to make it through the day.
How about you. Can you slow down enough to see God working in your life? Share some of your sightings with others.
We’re trying to do our part and become more green. Old habits die hard, but we have recently taken some new green steps to add to our recycling we’ve done for years.
We’ve move from being a part of this:
to having once of these:
We’ve gone from using these:
to using these:
How about you? Do you have some easy steps to being more green that you can share.
And you don’t even have to show them your tan line:
I was at the beach today and it was a great beach day. Not too hot, nice breeze, water was a little rough, but overall it was nice. I did get a bonus today while at the beach. A large crowd of people started pouring down the walk way on to the beach and then wandered out into the edge of the water. They were not dressed for the beach, at least not for the water so they stood out among all the swimmers and shell collectors and sun worshippers. They were at the beach for an ocean baptism service. By the time they were done, yelling and celebrating for eleven new brothers and sisters, they had attracted a large crowd of spectators and others that had joined their group in celebrating, myself included.
It was really, really cool. They did fit in at the beach, these son worshippers.
This Wednesday, June 3rd from 8 p.m. - Midnight you can get a free 10 oz float from Sonic. Enjoy!
It’s always a sign that summer is here when you see these out everywhere.
I think they have no special season, but can be worn all year long, as does my son.
It’s a little tougher to be a Flip Flop junkie and live in Kansas:
Right Eric?
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