If you were around the blog last year at this time, you watched my 50th birthday doings with as much bemusement as I experienced living them out.

It’s a much quieter celebration in store for me this year, primarily due to my co-worker and friend Kristin being shipped out of town.

There is a little bit of serenity that has come with age which I have begun to refer to as my “arrogant son-of-a-gun” factor.  (Well, actually I use slightly stronger language than that, but there are ladies and Steeler fans reading the blog, soooo  . . .)

It takes a certain amount of chutzpah or cojones to do this “digital thing;” have a blog, to put out self-produced videos, to facebook or twiitter . . . It all seems like “hey, look over here, look at me…!” I think that each of us has a little something to prove to the world each day and I’m not above that…. 

But, really none of those are the reasons I do any of this “digital thing” . . . and I truly believe that I could toss the whole lot of it off a virtual cliff and never look back in regret.  

There are moments that I am amazed at the arrogance that just because I have posted something onto the interweb, that it makes a difference, but, seemingly, every now and then it does.  I am touched and awed by those moments and never take them for granted.  That’s because I do view all this stuff as a service/ ministry.  I’ve learned so much by doing it and believe that it has made me a more effective “real time” minister as well.

So, on this day of quiet celebration, please allow me to thank you for stopping on by, reading, and occasionally dropping a comment.  May God grant us all the energy, grace, and a lil’ bit o’ arrogance to keep doing that which we do.