“The RoseBouquet”

My goal in June was to get a new daily blog started, in which I would share my Bible studies and devotional thoughts. But I knew it would require some regular posting activities, and I’d have to choose my methods carefully, as my daily routine is already quite full. I did some research, but by July 1st still didn’t have it all sorted out. So I aimed for an August 1st announcement. Other things crowded it back.

I had made some decisions and was sure I could begin on September 1. In fact, yesterday morning I hoped to set it up so I could announce how to subscribe to it before Friday. However, in my learning curve I tried to adjust something else, and accidently locked up my whole blog system for a bit. Fortunately I could quickly undo the last step taken, and it restored everything.

In all of that I think I found how to create a new index to the blogs, so the visitors can choose whether they want to see the daily devotional study, or go instead to the weekly RoseBouquet blog entries. Otherwise the daily entries - which are always at the top - will crowd the weekly ones to way-way-WAY down the page, or on to other pages, making it complicated to find them. However, there wasn’t enough time to actually do that.

Hopefully I’ll be able to accomplish that on Friday, the next free hour I’ll have to work at it. Or next week for sure.

I’m also planning to start a new daily ezine edition of the same devotional, to which you would subscribe, if you wanted to read this story by story study of Matthew. On the other hand, ultimately, I think the best way to publish this would be as an autoresponder serial. Then I could set up a month’s worth of emails to go out, and not have to make a new daily chore of it. You would subscribe to the daily autoresponder too, so the main advantage would be less daily work for me.

I was going to put the autoresponder idea on hold until I could afford the monthly payments. But I’ve found one that would only cost me $37/month until I’ve recruited 3 others to sign up for their own responders. Then mine would be free after that. Yesterday I got a nice gift of money out of the blue. It could probably cover two months of the responder. Dare I believe that I could recruit three others to buy up in that time? It’s that question of faith I’d like to answer soon.

As for my article today… my cousin Myrna died last Thursday. Her memorial service is this morning at 11 a.m. in Aldersgrove, B.C. My mind has been brimming over with memories of her since Thursday, and I feel a need to share them with you.