September 2007

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Wordless Wednesday

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“If we could understand everything God does, then He’d have to be a small god — small enough to fit in our little minds.”

~ Randy Alcorn ~

I remember sitting in church as a young child, hearing the pastor read Revelation 1:8 and being totally mystified:

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Alpha and omega. Beginning and end. And everything between. I recall marveling at how far back the beginning must have been and contemplating how far into the future the end would be. Eventually, I would decide that those concepts were beyond anything I could understand and busy myself with something else.

As I grew, I studied math, of course. We learned the concept of infinity. From time to time we would attempt to solve an equation, only to learn that there was no definitive answer because the result was infinite, i.e., “the assumed limit of a sequence, series, etc., that increases without bound.” Invariably, I would be the student who tried to take the operation of the equation a couple more steps, only to realize that yes, there was no end in sight.

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In the past couple of week, I have not been in my blogging groove and unable to muster much enthusiasm. As part of the process of figuring out why, I did a lot of reading and, in the process, discovered quite a few blogs that I had never visited before.

One of them was Susan Suarez: Online Journal to Creating a Successful Site. Her post, Re-energize Your Blogging Spirit, resonated with me from the first sentence: “Many bloggers experience time-to-time some discouragement that may make them want to stop blogging.” She offers four techniques for getting re-energized and inspired to continue blogging purposefully. They are:

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Wordless Wednesday

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