Posts Tagged ‘Writing’

Observations

Posted: July 22, 2011 in blogging, computing, friendship, life, pray, religion
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I’ve been doing a bit of analysis on my blog hits over the last few months and have noticed that the number of daily hits on my blog has been fairly consistent, although it has increased in the last year.

Having said that there have been some days when there has been a huge surge in the number of hits my blog has had. So this got me wondering what was so special or different about those days? Well the answer became clear quite quickly after I checkout the first few days that there were a large number of hits…those days were days on which I did not blog about religion/christianity or my faith, they were days when I blogged about sport, life, films, family, health etc with no mention of God!

Isn’t it sad that people seem to be more interested in reading or learning of other people’s experiences/thought on anything but God.

So do my findings mean I’ll be changing my target audience for my blog? Most definitely not!

I may not have started blogging with the intention of blogging nearly every day about my faith, religion or christianity, however I have found I’ve that’s exactly what I do blog about nearly every day of the week! I believe God wanted and needed me to share my faith and my experiences with you all through my blog, however you have probably noticed that I do try, usually once a week (normally a Saturday), to blog on a completely different topic, and it’s these blog posts that seem to attract a large number of readers.

I hope that as I continue to blog, those who read my non-christian blog posts might be interested or curious enough about my other posts, to have a read of them too. I pray that everyone who reads any of my blog posts may be challenged in their relationship with God, and may be encouraged to find out more about God and what He can do for you.

This blog would be pointless without you the reader, so I’d like to say a big thank you to you for reading…I’d love if you came back and read some more of my blog posts.

Make the Most of the Little Things

Posted: June 15, 2011 in books, family, friendship, life, love, religion
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I came across the following little poem a while ago and I’ve found it’s been back in my thoughts again in the last few days:

Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.

So the little moments,
Humble thought they be,
Make the mighty ages
Of Eternity.

So the little errors
Lead the soul away
From the paths of virtue
Far in sin to stray.

Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Help to make earth happy
Like the Heaven above.

This poem called Little Things was written in 1845 by Julia Fletcher Carney. Believe it or not this little poem was the source of great fame for both the poem and its writer…and that wouldn’t have happened it Julie hadn’t participated in a 10 minute writing exercise during her teaching time in Boston!

While attending a class for teachers in the summer of 1845, Julia and her classmates were given ten minutes to complete a writing assignment. She had written an article the previous evening called ”A Letter to Sabbath School Children,” in which she had mentioned the importance of little things. In the article, she had written the first four lines of the above poem and then in the 10 minute assignment, she started with those four lines and promptly carried on and wrote the rest of this poem.

Even at this point no-one would have expected this little poem to become so famous. However the editor of the publication that was going to publish Julia’s, ”Letter to Sabbath School Children” needed extra material to fill out the publication, at the very last minute. It was at this point that Julia made that crucial decision to give the publisher her recently completed poem “Little Things.

This little decision made by Julia that day to give her poem to the publisher, was one that had a huge effect on her life, as the poem proceeded to be published not only in the United States but all over the world.

Do you struggle with life sometimes? Do you worry about decisions that have to be made? Do you over-react when things don’t go your way?

Maybe just like me, you forget to be thankful for the little things in life – The little things of life often get forgotten or missed in amongst the big things of life, however the little things are often the things which have the biggest impact.

So don’t take the little things of life for granted.