It is amazing what can happen in a week.
This time last week we were just getting home from a week’s vacation. We were relaxed, excited to be together as a family once again and ready to come home.
Once we got home we got acclimated to home life again, we got back to reality and it has been crazy!
This week I have experienced many different aspects of what it means to be a Pastor — I have been walking with people through different life experiences, those with whom life has given to much to handle, to those who have experienced loss in their life, to those who are helping me plan the next chapter in the life of the church. It has been a crazy, but good week of ministry.
As I posted, my blog has taken a whole new look (not on purpose). I still have a lot of work to do in order to get the blog to a place where I am completely happy with it. But I think it is taking shape. My biggest problem is importing my posts from November of last year. I have them saved in my Google Reader, and the only way I know how to retrieve them is by cutting and pasting. Not the best way to import them but it is better than completely losing all that work.
Now that I have caught up some at work, I hope to finish getting things ready at the church for the fall. It is going to be a busy and fun time at St. Mark’s.
So yesterday was a bad day for my blog.
I have been thinking about the goal and purpose of my blog. I have so many interests that I want to write about I started to feel like my blog had not purpose or direction. I had some ideas to help with that, so I started tinkering with some themes. Well in the midst of tinkering, I received a fatal error…….no one likes the fatal error.
After some googling and conversations with friends who know more about computers than I do, I came to the realization that I had to uninstall and reinstall wordpress.
Over the next several weeks I am going to be putting most of my time and energy into getting this blog up and running again — one of the things that I realized is that I have not backed up my posts since November of last year. I thought I lost everything! But thanks to a friend, I realized that I have the posts saved in Google Reader. Granted I have to copy and past them into a new blog post but at least they are there.
Thank you for your patience during this time and I look forward to showing you a new look and better, consistent content.
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