Setting Records
October 16 was my last post. Uh- is anyone still out there? So far, that's a record time lapse between posts for me.
We have had record snowfall in Ajigasawa this December, but that won't fly as an excuse, because this year I have a short-termer to help me, AND the old snowblower from the camp in Aomori.
Right now, I'm at a seminar in Chiba (near Tokyo) to prepare for our 3 month home assignment starting in April. Home assignment used to be called "furlough", but some of our jargon pundits thought that sounded too much like a holiday (which it is NOT), so we got a (typically ponderous) replacement name for it a few years ago. This term has been a record 6 years. It was supposed to be 3, but a lot of stuff has happened these past 6 years (4 college graduations, 3 weddings in 2 years, etc.), so we contented ourselves with a total of 4 short trips to North America in that time. I don't think that's a record, but it's close.
Our mother church in Goshogawara has been without a pastor for 9 years- anybody top that? We have a candidate for the post from April, and are hoping it will happen this time, because I'm preaching twice or 3 times every Sunday, and THAT'S a record I don't care to hold.
Records are interesting, but can be overdone. Last summer I saw a T-shirt that said "Second Place Is First Loser" Not a very good attitude for a "sportsman", in the traditional sense of the word. Striving for excellence is good, but not if it means you have your boot in the other guy's face.
However, I will try not to break my own length-of-silence record on this blog.
My Little Helpers
We have had record snowfall in Ajigasawa this December, but that won't fly as an excuse, because this year I have a short-termer to help me, AND the old snowblower from the camp in Aomori.
Right now, I'm at a seminar in Chiba (near Tokyo) to prepare for our 3 month home assignment starting in April. Home assignment used to be called "furlough", but some of our jargon pundits thought that sounded too much like a holiday (which it is NOT), so we got a (typically ponderous) replacement name for it a few years ago. This term has been a record 6 years. It was supposed to be 3, but a lot of stuff has happened these past 6 years (4 college graduations, 3 weddings in 2 years, etc.), so we contented ourselves with a total of 4 short trips to North America in that time. I don't think that's a record, but it's close.
Our mother church in Goshogawara has been without a pastor for 9 years- anybody top that? We have a candidate for the post from April, and are hoping it will happen this time, because I'm preaching twice or 3 times every Sunday, and THAT'S a record I don't care to hold.
Records are interesting, but can be overdone. Last summer I saw a T-shirt that said "Second Place Is First Loser" Not a very good attitude for a "sportsman", in the traditional sense of the word. Striving for excellence is good, but not if it means you have your boot in the other guy's face.
However, I will try not to break my own length-of-silence record on this blog.
My Little Helpers
posted by John Elliot | 5:12 PM
4 Comments:
Dear John. its good to hear from you - in deed I did wonder a few days ago, if there would be ever a new post on you blog... I'm happy that you're back to your blog. looking forward to your next entry.
from far, far away
You know, that's the advantage of using the RSS technology. I can subscribe to your weblog with a feed reader and get notified whenever something new comes in. So even though you spent a few months without writing, I now got notified immediately about the change.
There is a description of what I just said over at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator. You can try this out yourself with for example http://www.bloglines.com/ if you're interested.
Of course we still wanna hear what you have to say ^_^ !!
Comments recieved: I'll try to keep it up.
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