Cleaning up and Checking In

Wow, has it REALLY been NINE YEARS since I stopped by? So much has changed that it seems superfluous to try and 'catch up'. And honestly that is not my goal -- I doubt that people read my blog, or have in many many years, this gives me some freedom to start slow and deliberately. I plan on using this as a place to put some of my thoughts, and also to do some house cleaning on sites I read/listen to, and remove dead links etc. In other words, rather than anyone reading this with regularity, I believe that this will be a notepad for my thoughts. I have read some of my old posts and like anything, some are terrible, some are OK, but all were 'where I was' at the time; in other words, it is sort of my modern version of journaling. I am contemplatring doing a podcast -- a dear friend has provided some guidance on tools etc. BTW, I am still a bi-vocational pastor at a small church, so the tooling and efforts needs to be considered in that vein (read that, non-time consuming, and inexpensive). With all that being said -- I am just leaving this as a placeholder as I work through updating and cleaning my old house out.