putting titles on all my posts is going to be tough getting used to. I don’t have to do it, of course, but it will make managing posts a whole lot easier, plus, currently, if I don’t title a post, there is no permalink available. And I don’t want that.

um… like I just forgot to title this…

With this new blog, I have a new goal. Only, the goal isn’t really new… I’ve had it for about a year and a half. But now it is outspoken and more deliberate than ever. What is this goal?

To see the glory of God in the ordinary things of life. The first instance on this new and improved blog is the decision about the theme to use. There is a picture of grass at the top. I chose it because it is about as ordinary as you can get, and it glorifies God.

The lawn-mowing season has begun. I have cut my grass three times now this season (and sprayed weed-killer once). I cut it, and it grows right back. A week is all I can wait, or else my mower won’t be able to get the job done (and sometimes it can’t even after just a week). I think about all the amazing things going on in each blade of grass; in each cell of each blade of grass. And how quickly it grows. You can almost watch it grow it is so fast.

And the weed killer is another God-glorifying ordinary thing. I mix this stuff together, spray it all over, and it kills the things I don’t want around and leaves the grass to grow and be happy. How does it do that? Well, I’m sure someone knows. But I don’t. I just see the little guys start squirming around, and I glory in it.

What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. … What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.

Well, here we are. Much thanks to Geof for giving me a rmfo-blog, and all the work he put into creating this thing, and telling me how to make it look like I want it to look.

I spent nearly five years at blogger. chard.blogspot.com was an institution, I am told. But, it’s a whole new internet, I say. Ain’t no going back. Plus, now I get to share a domain with the Sage. How cool is that?

I think I’ve finished setting this blog up…