Things we do…
If anyone had said in my school years that part of what I’d do as a pastor would be to fix the code on the blog index page so it would continue to count visitors for statistical purposes, I would have laughed or just asked, “What the heck is a blog?” Yet Monday after choosing what I hope will be our last theme (for awhile anyway) for the blog page, I discovered no one was coming to the page anymore. Now I am not a person who really is about statistics but sometimes it helps to know if what you’re doing is having any kind of impact so counting can be a way of tracking that. If no one seems to be interested and if it hits no one’s life, should it really stay near the top of the priority list of things to do? As it turns out, the really cool theme I chose (truthfully, Erika and I chose) needed just a tiny bit of tweaking that hopefully didn’t break something else but that is a story for another time.
Maybe that is true of anything. Are there things we should keep doing if they have little impact? Like walking in the park or looking at flowers or catching an episode of Prison Break? Well those things we ought to keep doing just to appreciate the totally cool world we live in and find peace. When it comes down the things we’re wired to do, that we are called to do, perhaps we do need to be discerning that we are spending time in the best possible ways- all this from changing a few lines of code… go figure.
