Birthdays are significant. I recently got to 40 and it changed my thinking quite a bit. I've had a good warm up, now I want to make the next 40 years count. I decided to make it a "give away birthday" and really enjoyed giving away the gifts that came my way. It wasn't really a hardship or as generous as it sounds since God has given me everything I want and the joy in being able to give to the things that He has put on my heart was just amazing.
I realised recently that I have another birthday to celebrate. Looking at the date of my first blog it turns out that today is my BlogDay! That's right, today I have been blogging for an entire year. Here is my first blog on Moving mountains http://marcustutt.blogspot.com/2009/09/moving-mountains.html By the look of my analogies I had just been to see the Transformers movie. I hope over the last year that I have become less of a "ford focus" Christian and more of a devastating killer robot. God transform me please! There is a long way to go but things have changed this year. I have begun pressing forward in believing God for healing and have seen some pretty big molehills move. Now for the mountains!
More recently, I really enjoyed having the time to blog more on sabbatical and my resolve to continue was strengthened when I realised that a prophetic word I had been given talked about me journaling stuff and making it available in a database. Journaling + database = blogging (well almost!). I am finding that writing stuff down really helps me think about things a lot more. I currently have almost a dozen things I want to think and blog on but not enough time! I also want to press on with my bible blog (http://marcusbible.blogspot.com) but I have more pressing commitments and responsibilities right now (I'd better finish this blog soon so I can get on with them!).
To help celebrate and mark the day I have decided to move my blog over to wordpress. It's still under construction but you can take a look if you like http://marcustutt.wordpress.com/. It's much easier to organise blogs with key words and series and things (although some features of eblogger like BlogLists are missing and moving pictures about was easier in eblogger too) so I will eventually just blog there. I have also just given my bible blog a new domain name http://thebibleblog.co.uk/. It's not ideal but it will do for now and help me suss out how domain names and forwarding works. I will keep it on eblogger for now as it's such a big job to move over and doesn't need all the facilities of wordpress.
Looking ahead I'm posting my first set of videos this month as well as my Old Testament bible cards so stay tuned. Here's to another 12 months of happy blogging!
Finally, on the subject of birthdays, just read another excellent blog form Phil Moore http://blog.philmoorebooks.com/ and watched a video that he talks about.
Wow. I've had 40 birthday celebrations so far but I there are many who haven't even had one. I wonder if we can find ways of extravagantly celebrating the birthdays of some of the guys we are getting to know through our kings care drop in.
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