Fellow travelers,

Has it really been 5 years?  May 20, 2021, is the date of the first post, so yes.  Happy Blogiversary to me!

A big thank you to everyone who has been reading along, and especially to those who comment and share!  I don’t know what happened, but somehow after 3 years of hardly any growth, my number of daily readers (according to WordPress’ standard reports) doubled in 2025 and is on pace to almost double again in 2026.  The chart below shows the total visitors (the dark bar) and the total views (the lighter bar) for every calendar year from 2021 to so far this year.  2026 is already the 2^nd-most popular year.

Views and popularity aren’t a goal here, but it’s certainly not a negative!  I am very thankful that the things I write about (which are very meaningful to me) are resonating with other people.  When writing, I “consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,”[1] and my hope is to take ideas that are impactful to me and make them impactful to others by sharing them.

A lot has changed in 5 years.  In that time and looking back at prior Blogiversary posts, I’ve learned it’s best not to set goals other than my informal one to try and post something every day.  Using my library of old posts, that really should be attainable, but sometimes life gets in the way, and sometimes I’m just not up to it.  I don’t like continuing to post old stuff if I haven’t written anything new in a while.

But when I think of the growth of viewership, I’m mindful of this story about Charles Spurgeon told by Warren Wiersbe:

“A young preacher once complained to Charles Spurgeon, the famous British preacher of the 1800s, that he did not have as big a church as he deserved.
“How many do you preach to?” Spurgeon asked.
“Oh, about a hundred,” the man replied.
Solemnly Spurgeon said, “That will be enough to give account for on the day of judgment.””

As James wrote, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”[2]  Only God knows where this blog will go, but above all, I hope to follow where He leads faithfully.

We are not home yet, so let us all keep “driving toward the morning sun.”

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[1] Hebrews 10:24
[2] James 4:15