I think this is the longest I have gone without posting something to my blog since I began blogging over five years ago.  It has been a busy month around here, and while I won’t go into details, for you United Methodists out there I will give a clue:  Annual Charge Conference.  There have been way too many meetings and administrative duties to attend to lately, and I have been ignoring all my blogs during this time.

In a way this has been nice, since the demands of writing something or finding something interesting to post have been non-existent.  I also had a couple of bad experiences with blogging earlier this year, which made me more reluctant than ever to put my thoughts out in cyberspace.  So, in truth, I have been thinking about giving up blogging entirely.  I still don’t know that that isn’t what I will do eventually, but for now, I am back.  My posting may not be as much as it was in the past, but I will continue with the blogs for now, posting whenever I feel the need or urge to do so.

Since the most boring blog posts are always those that talk about a lack of blogging on the blogger’s part, let me give you a little quote to end this post that will hopefully redeem it somewhat.  This is from Bishop Ken Untener of Saginaw, who wrote:

It helps now and then to step back and take a long view.
The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,
it is beyond our vision.

We accomplish in our lifetime only a fraction
of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work.
Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of
saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession
brings perfection, no pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the Church’s mission.
No set of goals and objectives include everything.

This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one
day will grow. We water the seeds already planted
knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects
far beyond our capabilities.

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of
liberation in realizing this.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning,
a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s
grace to enter and do the rest.

We may never see the end results, but that is the
difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not
messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.