It’s Almost Naptime

In its earlier incarnation with another host, Thinking Out Loud was drawing a comfortable fifty readers per day.    I was happy that anybody was reading, but I think it’s a male trait to want to see the growth of any enterprise to which you’re giving oversight.

I put a blog counter on, and then joined Alltop Christianity, and later Alltop Church, and then more recently added Christian Blogs, whose icon is always in the sidebar of this blog.   (My first connection to this Christian website aggregator was David Fisher’s Pilgrim Scribblings blog, also listed in the sidebar.)

As this blog started to grow, and approach page one of Christian Blogs, and then the top ten, and then the top three, I started to feel bad about the idea of beating The Persecution Blog, the official blog of Voice of the Martyrs.   My idle ramblings somewhat pale next to people who are giving their lives for their faith.

But I also became aware of It’s Almost Naptime.   Missy and Walker have had four kids in four years.   That’s a lot of laundry, and Missy doesn’t hesitate to photograph the pile of clothing next to the washer.

This is blogging at its most grassroots basic.   A true ‘web log’ of what it’s like having all those children underfoot.  No wonder Missy has hundreds of daily readers — over 900 one day last week.

But it’s also about the lessons that children teach us about ourselves and our Heavenly Father.      It’s raw, and it’s transparent and it’s sometimes like this:

I knew God loved me, he officially had to, the Bible tells me so, yeah yeah. But how could God possibly really love me, unconditionally, me being so stinky and sticky and such a flop at being a “good Christian”??

That’s a paragraph from a special page on It’s Almost Naptime tabbed “What I Really Want You To Know” and titled God Thinks You Rock The Casbah.    I want you to click on the link and read the whole article.   Especially if you’re looking at the whole Christ-following deal as someone looking inside the window of a house from the outside on a cold day.

It’s gonna bump her stats today, and she’ll definitely beat me again today in the readership race, but at least the guilt about beating The Persecution Blog will be her problem.