The Things That Bring Visitors to my Blog

I love to look at what brings people I don't know, or who don't know me, to my blog. I can look at my sitemeter and find out what Google search has brought them to view it. Then I wonder what thinking brought them to make that particular search.
The most prevalent is a search for something along the lines of "before I formed you in the womb I knew you." I suppose many of these are studying the Bible and are intrigued by this passage. How amazing it is to think that God knows us before we are even formed! This should cause a person to ponder the extreme love that God has for us; imagine how much we love a newborn baby we barely know--God has known that baby actually, the Bible says, since before the foundation of the world. And His love is perfect, complete, and infinite.
Some come looking up air-soft pellet guns. This makes me laugh some, because it's so incidental in my life--not really in our lives at all, though Tim has been pleading and haranguing me and finding any new angle to change my mind about letting him have one (he doesn't know, but I'm kind of softening on this one). The blog entry that readers might reach about this might not even have to do with air-soft guns but about the size of the earth in relation to the sun, and how enormous God's creation is.
Some come looking up bb guns. That's a humorous blog, since the only one I ever knew to shoot another person (other than with air-soft guns) was a pastor. (Not our latest one, but a few years back.)
Some come looking up Bonhoeffer, which somewhat concerns me because I blogged about him with really minimal knowledge about him. I quoted him, a quote that I've known for eons, it seems...without having read his writings...and then read an article about him, and blogged on that. So that might end up less than satisfying to the reader.
I find also that my siblings have looked up a family friend's name on Google and come across an entry I wrote about him--the first Christian I remember ever knowing, a Japanese man...who beat us at Monopoly...by being kind. It made an impression on me! But I guess my blog made some impression on my family, because I note that it's been accessed three times, always by places where my family lives. I guess they weren't that interested in the rest of my blog, because only one of them looked anywhere else on it and hasn't been back to it since.
Someone recently looked up planarians' feeding habits. Believe it or not, they found a blog entry about it. I love that one. I hope they enjoyed it too--it has to do with contrasting focus on something a bit disgusting in contrast with focusing on the glory of God. I still remember vividly the occasion that brought me to write that one.
One came to look up cornual pregnancies; that one I particularly prayed for, because when my doctor thought my last pregnancy was cornual, she was recommending that I terminate it. That was the pregnancy that was Tim, who is now 10 years old, now playing in the basement with two of his friends...and who God knew before the foundation of the world.
My hope is that some of these people, even one, might read something here about God's goodness, His great wonders that He has done, that He has even chosen to do some of these great things for me, and that they might know that He would do great things for them as well. If only one person realizes the goodness of God as a result, not one letter that I have ever blogged would be a waste. And He is in all ways infinitely good, He's shown it in every aspect of my life.

Good Thing I Didn't Post it!

Oh boy. Did I get carried away. I started a blog entry, and not until I passed it along to someone did I in rereading start to realize how puffed up it was. Just as I received an e-mail from them gently pointing that out, I was sending one that was realizing it.
So I went on a walk with my neighbor friend Stacia, two rounds on the cul-de-sac. I told her about it at the start...and then later told her again how I still felt mortified. She told me, "I know you. Soon as you see them you're going to go up and tell them how embarrassed you still are and they'll go, 'Huh?' having forgotten the whole thing." She's right, they might. At first I thought they wouldn't, but then I remembered that God has helped me to forget things others have done, as I even posted not long ago. I'll pray for His work in that regard.
Stacia's and my walk was longer than usual--because I was short enough already, but I'm only a couple of inches tall now. Ha! Pride goeth before a fall.
At least Stacia pointed out one good thing. I hadn't posted it. So you'll just have to wonder what I said. Whew.

Huh.

Today Katie told me that some of her young friends thought it was funny that her mother blogged. Huh. I don't know why they think an old lady wouldn't have twice as much to say as they do, having more than twice the history they do! It does strike me funny how surprised people are when they find that I blog. Seems like anyone with a testimony should blog--their story is not just their own. Also it makes the most of every opportunity, to give people a chance to know what great things God has done in a life. Not only does a believer have a start-up salvation testimony, but any believer who trusts in God for their daily wisdom, grace, forgiveness...seems like every day has a story of some sort, and most of them point in some way to what the good is that God can do in a person's life.
Maybe I should do better in incorporating the Scriptures into my blogs, how they apply in my life. I know there's probably at least one for every blog I've ever written. (If it's only "Jesus wept."--I hope not!) For that matter, sometimes God acts in my life and it's not exactly something that I have to hammer home, it speaks for itself. Then the humorous ones are just for a matter of mental health--mine and maybe that of the reader. The humor is from Him, too: Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. (James 1:17)
So if you think you're too old, I'd say hardly. You might be too young, though...you little squirts! :O)