I wrote this as a post for Middle Zone Musings. I’m putting it here to make it easy for you to find it. The task was to identify a post from every month.
What I learned from…2007
I started writing The Levite Chronicles several years ago, on paper. I wanted to help me keep track of what I was learning about helping people learn about God and themselves. When I moved to the internet at levite.wordpress.com, I spent less time on keeping track and more time on just trying to figure out what I was learning. There is, I will caution, some spiritual content in these posts and which may or may not reflect yours or Robert’s or even my current understandings.
January Connections. As the year started, I was thinking about the challenge of remembering the past and forgetting the past. Looking back, I realize that I struggle with that tension all the time. And that I didn’t finish the project I was working that day for several months. And that I wrote much shorter posts back then.
February On going off probation. I became a Rev. this year, but only Chris Brogan gets to call me that. This post talks about the process.
March 24. Not the tv show, but the 24 years we had been married as of that day. It was written in the middle of a 2 week blogosphere fast, but I decided that the day…and my wife…were worth celebrating.
April Roll call. As a blog post, this didn’t do much. However, when my mom printed it out and sent it to the nurse at the clinic, 2.0 and 0.0 were crossed…and someone cried.
May Like finding a bathroom. I was playing with metaphor.
June Why people liked Jesus. Somehow, the idea of Jesus throwing parties for lost sheep resonated with some people through this year.
July Archaic language changes. July was, as I look back, a good blogging month with lots of travel and life processing upon which to draw. This post, however, got the most traffic, not because it was so wonderful but because it went up about 2 hours before some friends started a social media birthday party for me that was amazing. (Oops. Two posts for this month. Sorry Robert).
August No going back. I spent August on a self-imposed project, writing every day about some highway sign. 31 days, 31 signs. This post is was written near the end of the project about some of the things I learned.
September What I mean when I say - pray. This one post has been referenced in more conversations this year, usually from people in tough times asking for chocolate milk. I’ve been glad to oblige.
October Where to drink coffee. When I wrote this, I was in the middle of some personal wrestling. It didn’t turn out exactly the way I thought (the wrestling), but reading back, I really like the post.
November 8 ways to explain 2.0 friends to 0.0 parents. This post got my most hits ever. Apparently at least 42 people struggle with this challenge of living in two worlds. (This is also part of my 8 ways series, a quick way to create odd posts).
December I hate peas. Susan Reynolds has cancer. She wrote about it. So did I.
Through a job change, travel, almost daily walks with my wife, an amazing group of online friends (in no particular order and without links: Robert, Connie, Liz, Joanna, Paul, Rob, Rick, Anna, Laurie, Amy, Becky, Laura, Michelle, and with deep affection, Chris), this has been a year of tremendous internal growth. Thanks for making me remember, Robert.
