Tim Samoff // Weblog (old)

June 15, 2004

4 years and 301 posts...

Four years ago today I began my online journal. It wasn’t going to be a “Blog,” per se, because the whole Weblog phenomenon was really only in its infancy back then. No, my online journal was only to be a small section of a much larger picture — something that would keep visitors updated about what I was up to (and hopefully have them coming back)...

Now, four years later, my simple little online journal has become the main focus of what I do online (at least, outside of what I do at my day job). And now, this meager depot of half-organized streams of consciousness gets 800 to 1500 unique hits per day.

In reality, I have only been “blogging” (in the literal sense of the word) for a little over a year now — well, my first entry using MovableType was on May 28, 2003, anyway. The three years prior were a pretty shabby attempt at keeping my journal updated. There are some good memories in there, though (and my tremendous amount of traffic really only started about six months ago).

In any case, that first MovableType entry was about time. Here is a quote from that post:

Time is something that I am going to try to conquer — not scientifically, not metaphysically, but mentally and, hopefully, spiritually. God desires us to seek Him at all times. He desires to give us abundant life. Ultimately, He desires us to be in total communion with Him. To God, in His sense of time, this has already happened. To us, it will remain a process. Whether this process finds one of us dead later on this afternoon or still toiling 60 years from now, to God, if we are seeking His kingdom, we are already with Him. I’d like this concept to be a part of who I am. In the here-and-now of my own human understanding, I’d like to know that time doesn’t matter. I’d like to know that anything I go through, here on Earth, is already a fleeting memory.

I think this was a turning point in my “blogging career” as well as my life as a follower of Christ…and I have yet to look back.

Read this piece, by Will Sampson. It sums up a lot of the resons why this past year has been so good.

Thanks for the wonderful times everyone. I’m only looking forward to more.

Posted at 08:05 am

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