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02/04/2003 Entry: "Happy Birthday to me"
I've just realised that this blog will be a year old in just a few hours time. One of my entries that first day seems just as relevant to me today as it was back then. My colleague Kim Fabricius had preached in the college chapel from Matthew 5: "Blessed are the meek". A couple of quotable quotes stuck in my mind, and I have used both since in more than one sermon:
"Humility isn't thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less - and so thinking of other people more"I've had a fun year with the blog, though I never expected it to become the main part of theConnexion - that accolade, I imagined, would belong to my wiki. I was wrong about that - as my wife is fond of saying, "You're not often right, but you're wrong again." Be that as it may, I hope that someon out there has found reading this blog as useful as it has been to me writing it."C S Lewis put it like this in his brilliant Screwtape Letters: 'God wants to bring us to a state of mind in which we could design the most magnificent cathedral in the world, and know it to be the most magnificent cathedral in the world, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) glad at having done it than we would be if it had been done by someone else. God's whole effort is to get our minds off the subject of our own value altogether.' "
All together now: "Happy Birthday to you..."
Replies:
Swan - you're a star!
Posted by Richard @ 02/09/2003 07:35 AM CST
Sure, I can do some of that within the next week or so.
Posted by Swan @ 02/09/2003 03:14 AM CST
Thanks Swan - that's a good idea. You're right about the front page of the wiki looking very formal. I just looked again, and I can't argue.Do you fancy having a go at pasting some of the discussion across?
Posted by Richard @ 02/09/2003 12:14 AM CST
A belated happy birthday!
I think one of the reasons that the wiki hasn't been more popular is that the structure one is first presented with seems quite formal.One could paste some of the discussions from the blog and the board that have been very fruitful and that may even lend themselves to some consensus there and see what happens...
Posted by Swan @ 02/08/2003 12:55 AM CST
Congradulations, Richard!Many returns of the day. *chuckle*Blessings and peace.
Posted by Richard B. @ 02/06/2003 11:59 AM CST
This is a very important day for a very important blog. It has been an important ministry to me. Thank you Richard - all God's best. Sherm
Posted by Sherm @ 02/05/2003 02:15 PM CST
I'll get the first round in Dean. What'll it be?No Alice, it hasn't been a thankless task. I have other places I go for those ;o)
Posted by Richard @ 02/05/2003 09:33 AM CST
It doesn't feel like that long, and yes, it's definitely been useful reading.
I remember that sermon of Kim's too, and the humility quote is a good one to keep in mind.
Happy Birthday... and thank you for all the work you put in on it. Hope it doesn't seem like a thankless task sometimes.
alicex
Posted by alice @ 02/05/2003 09:07 AM CST
Hear! Hear!
A round on the house!
Posted by Mean Dean @ 02/05/2003 03:26 AM CST
congratulations on one year! I only hope I last that long! blog on
Posted by Darren @ 02/05/2003 12:05 AM CST
Diolch, John!
Posted by Richard @ 02/04/2003 11:45 PM CST
Penblwydd Hapus i'r Connexion!
Posted by John @ 02/04/2003 11:38 PM CST
Happy birthday! I enjoy reading the blog.Shalom,Jan
Posted by Jan @ 02/04/2003 10:36 PM CST
L'anniversaire heureux à vousL'anniversaire heureux à vousL'anniversaire heureux aux connexionsL'anniversaire heureux à vouset beaucoup plusssss. Blog on!
Posted by Bene Diction @ 02/04/2003 09:01 PM CST
It seems like just yesterday this blog appeared on the scene. Keep up the great work!
Blesings
Posted by Ian @ 02/04/2003 08:43 PM CST
