Ramblings
EXPLANATIONS
I've been a bit missing here on t-Blog, and for several reasons. This has been my home for over 2 years, & I continue to believe it is the best blogging format for semi-serious bloggers like myself. However, I admire those of you that can keep up the intensity of writing something of interest on a daily or semi-daily basis. At times my mind and interests wander, and I find I have not set here and connected in several days. Inevitably I get to missing the experience, and the friends here at this place. And I know that sounds strange; you guys that I have never met and know so little about, yet I enjoy your company. Someone inferred that I do not like a fellow blogger because of our strong differences in some recent posts. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am energized from healthy exchange. It is good for me to be challenged to present an answer for what I believe. Such is among the best of what blogging is about, in my opinion.
So, here is my personal re-commitment to this venue. My intention is to try to post consecutively for the next several days. Admittedly some of it may be rubbish. Like I say, I am not a daily journalist. However, a reason I blog is because I think I've got something that needs to be said, if for no other reason than to get it "off my chest". I like for you to read, and comment, but that is really not an absolute.
A NEW PROJECT
I've been working on an audio sermon collection at Podbean. Here is a link to my personal sermon website, with great creativity called pdave. I've devoted countless hours trying to get this thing going. It is not all that intuitive, and I'm rather slow catching on to the demanded and precise logic required of even basic website design. The requirement has been to transfer sermons to mp3 format and upload them to the PodBean website. From that point, the requirement is to wander the website in a slow process of design. Actually, it is all rather interesting. Then again, it does not take much to excite me.
The intent is to put about a dozen sermons onto the general site, readily accessible. They will be of varying subjects, practical of nature. I also want to list about a half dozen of whatI will call "Five-Minute-Message s". I understand that many people are not really into church and the Christian faith, and proably will be hesitant to sit down and listen to a long sermon from a "country preacher". And others will simply be like myself, of the "ADD mentality". These shorter sermons perhaps will do the trick, and get a few hits along the way.
FIRST FIVE-MINUTE-MESSAGE
As a matter of fact, check out my first 5-Minute-Message. It is entitled Honesty. It concerns our need to be persons of integrity. And it includes an interesting account of a moral dilemma faced during our recent state High School Basketball Championships. All in five minutes. Well...since we are dealing with honesty, it is more like five minutes and 22 seconds.
SPRUCING-UP PASTORDAVE
One more thing- I'm in the midst of some nip-and-tuck work on my t-Blog site. The links will be updated. Removed an offensive blinkie at the bottom, and replaced it with what looks to me to be a pretty neat webplayer. I'd like to put it into the side column, but just can't seem to make it fit. Any help would be appreciated.
UPCOMING SUBJECTS
Blog on, my friends! This week we will discuss bad motels, a recent encounter with Elvis (I am telling the truth!), a respectful post about my visit to the Clinton Presidential Library, and who knows what else. Come on back!
