From 2006 to 2014 A Simple Desire provided commentary to the daily scripture passages of A Sip of Scripture found on Third Way Cafe, a website created by MennoMedia. Will Fitzgerald started the blog late in February 2006. After the first year he was joined by several other contributors. Over time however the primary task of writing came to rest on two people, Will and myself. And then . . . there was just me.
During 2014 I came to the realization that it was time for a change. Prayerfully I sought to discern what that change should be. I wanted a biblical foundation to work from, one that had both tradition and the potential for new insight. And so it was that I decided starting January 2015 to comment on the Revised Common Lectionary. However the lectionary cycle actually coincides with the liturgical church year, and that starts with Advent. So at the beginning of Advent 2014 I started commenting on the lectionary scripture passages in addition to daily scripture passages from Third Way Cafe. And as of January 2015 I wrote solely on the Revised Common Lectionary.
During the summer of 2017 I came to realize it was time for another change. I had been maintaining two blogs, this one and another called “Pondering From the Pacific” [https://ponderingfromthepacific.wordpress.com/ ]. I decided to combine the two, and copy all of the past posts I did from January 2015 to onward to “Pondering From the Pacific”. Then the beginning of September 2017 I started letting beloved readers know they needed to switch over the the new site; I posted the opening section of each post and gave instructions and a link to the new site. As the weeks of September went by, I posted just the link to the posting that day and the encouragement to read the post there. In October I stopped posting any entries so that the transitions is complete in time for Advent of 2017. I thought this blog would remain as a warehouse for all the posts from its beginning in 2006 to the last day posting here, which was at the end of Advent 2017. After that I occasionally posted here, especially some of the Psalms Passages.
Then May of 2021 the “itch” for change took hold again and I prayerfully decided to change the theme. After much effort and equal amount of frustration, I created the theme you see here. It is still a work in progress – at least the format is. But then aren’t we all a work in progress! It is not exactly what I want the final product/look to be.
I have been writing on religious and spiritual themes for close to 20 years now – here and other places. And I have not stopped yet, and am posting on two blogs – here and Pondering From the Pacific. You are free to chose which ever site you want. But who knows what I might be up to next! Blessings & Shalom!
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