August 10 – “Waiting on the updates …”

Wow.  Computer updates are taking forever this morning. I thought they would complete themselves when I selected “Update and shut down” last night.  What do I know?  I’m glad my phone has a note pad I can get started on. 

It's weird just how much of what I do every morning necessitates a computer.  I remember back when I first started blogging/journaling.  It was during and after hurricane Ike. We were staying at Josh's house in Mansfield.  Our bedroom was an air mattress in the dining room.  I would get up before everyone else (no changes there), read my Bible for a while, and then hand-write my thoughts about the day before.  I didn't have a laptop back then (It was way back in 2008, after all).  I had the tower of my old desktop with me, but it was set up in Josh and Christi's bedroom, so I wasn't about to wake them up.  I ended up ordering a laptop while we were there, but it took a long time to get in.  Sometimes the longhand process took several pages.  Other times it was just a paragraph or two.  It was a cathartic experience for me, one that I had never done consistently.

I didn't start putting them online until it became apparent that folks from Seaside wanted to be more informed about each other and about what I was finding out about the Island.  Kel set up the Kelley's Korner page for me, and I have tried to keep it going ever since.

There have been times when people have been offended by my thoughts.  That was not the point.  I never intended to offend anyone, just to be real about my perceptions.  I have appreciated the encouragement of many who have urged me to say whatever is on my heart (Forget about what other people say; keep being real and let the consequences be on the head of those choosing to be offended - Jim Stone), and those who have consistently "liked" the link on Facebook and offered a simple word of response and encouragement, even when the blog was just a simple rehashing of a particularly boring day in the life of a pastor (Janet Richardson and Karen Mertes).  Know that I have considered many times just quitting the whole thing, but it was your encouragement, and the 20 or 30 people who actually went to the page (whether they read it or not),  and, well truth be told, and the fact that I read it was good for old people to keep doing stuff that challenged their brain (something about delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s) that kept me writing something every morning.

Well, I began writing this on my phone's note pad over an hour ago. The computer is finally finishing up on the updates. These better be some good ones.

1 Corinthians 3:18 says, “Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise.”

Father, thank you for encouragement in all if its forms. Bless all of the encouragers you have placed in your world. Amen.