Back of the Envelope

Once again, the God or Not carnival is looking for more theist submissions on the topic of "Truth". The deadline ha been pushed back until 2:30 pm on Monday. Send your submissions to submit-at-godornot-dot-com with the following information:

• author’s name (or handle)
• position: GOD or NOT? (please select one)
• the title of the blog on which it appears
• the title of the post
• a short description of the post (one or two sentences)
• a link directly to the post (permalink)
• the trackback URL (if different)

Thanks for your participation!

My small group didn't finish until 10 pm last night, which meant I didn't get home until 11 pm. As such, I didn't manage to get much blogging done. I've got to start planning for these late nights and prepare something in advance. We'll see if I manage something Friday.

My blogging is always light these days, but last night I had my service small group, and I didn't get home until after 10:30 pm, and after eating dinner and writing a lengthy e-mail to a friend, I just didn't have much time to prepare anything for today.

What's a "service small group", you ask? Well, it's a Bible study whose focus is outward rather than inward. In this case, it's focused on serving the homeless in Boston. We're just starting, but once things are rolling we'll meet for about an hour of prayer and Bible study, then spend another hour out on the street providing food and clothing to the homeless in Boston. Right now we're still doing training for going out, but I think it'll be a powerful experience.

The most recent Christian Carnival is online at Pursuing Holiness. This is the 109th carnival, making it the second anniversary, if I'm not mistaken. Huh, the Christian Carnival is the same age of my blog. Isn't that interesting?

Of course, there could have been a few skipped carnivals or something, so I think the Christian Carnival is a little bit older, but not by much.

I almost forgot, I started this blog two years ago yesterday. Yes, I started it on Valentine's Day, and no, I didn't have anything better to do. I did have something better to do this Valentine's Day, although I'm afraid it was a church thing rather than a date thing.

Anyway, it's been two years. I am blogging less these days, but I haven't stopped blogging. I've started a carnival which is still going strong, and I still manage to put up a long, involved post every once in a while, so I guess it's going as well as can be expected.

However, as I've already said, my focus this year is on getting published. This means polishing my existing writings, including significant new material for some of them, writing cover letters, and submitting them. So far, I've managed to keep a good pace with these things, but the blogging has already started to suffer. I expect it will continue to do so. I won't stop, and I'll probably manage at least one post every weekday, but I won't have as many long, involved posts. We'll just have to see how it works out.

It's been a while since I've linked to the Christian Carnival, so here's number one hundred and eight. This week's lacking a theme, but that's okay, as the themed versions always make me feel inadequate. If you'd like to participate in the next carnival, please send your recent post (something you've put on your blog since the last carnival's deadline) illustrating a Christian perspective to ChristianCarnival-at-gmail-dot-com with the following information:

• Blog name
• Blog URL
• Post name
• Post URL
• Brief description of post

The deadline is midnight on Tuesday.

The God or Not carnival is looking for more theist submissions. The deadline is tonight, around midnight, but I think the host will accept them a bit late. Send your submissions to submit-at-godornot-dot-com with the following information:

• author’s name (or handle)
• position: GOD or NOT? (please select one)
• the title of the blog on which it appears
• the title of the post
• a short description of the post (one or two sentences)
• a link directly to the post (permalink)
• the trackback URL (if different)

Cadmus has more information about the carnival at his blog, Cadmusings.

The problem with putting so much effort into my writing at the moment is that my blogging suffers. There are so many things I ought to blog about, including a few things I promised, but I'm struggling to keep up with the writing too, and that's my top goal this year. I'm not going to stop blogging, but don't expect it to pick up steam any time soon.

I went to two Superbowl parties and didn't get home until midnight, so I'm afraid I didn't have much of a chance to blog last night. And I was sick last week, so I never really got around to my argument on God's goodness, so I still need to get that done. I'll try to get my weekly webcomic update up later tonight, and get to that argument by later in the week. But I'm not going to be able to get much done right now.