Jim West continues to amaze and amuse. It was fun to ping-pong a few goofy posts about Zwingli and the result of all my slander is that he blogrolled my blog! Hurray! One step closer to market saturation and SEO. Jim’s scurrilous post David Ker: The Devil? Or Just One of His Minions? gave my blog the biggest spike since iMonk made a passing comment about something I had said about the Missionary Mirage. The header photo on Jim’s blog apparently shows the actual body of water where it happened.

I see that hand! was an interesting post. I discovered that many people are switching or have already switched to Google Reader. There is some way in Feed Burner to see how many people are getting your feed but I haven’t been able to work it out. I’m still mad at WordPress for taking down the Feed Stats. Sure, they were wildly inaccurate. But they felt good.

And since I’m talking about stats, I’m happy to report that I’m no longer getting hundreds of visits to my blog by people looking for “Jesus” and “tattoo” or “Greek” and “s-x.” Duh.

Yesterday, our Mozambican Internet provider got the modems working again and so suddenly I have been able to read people’s blogs and see the pictures and also comment, clean up my blog’s blogrolls, etc.

Finally, God is speaking to me a lot about not saying anything. I’ve been thinking about the importance of meditation, silence, using the Scriptures as a mirror. All of that requires “turning off the noise” of scores of blogs, RSS feeds, carnivals, Facebook walls, emails, etc. and just clearing out the brain and straining to hear the voice of God. This morning I was reading the Psalms in the 40’s and there is much beauty there. I think I’ll take the dog for a walk this morning and be silent in the fields with God.