By Elizabeth Prata
Most people have off work today, and I'm glad for them. Of those who are on shift, thank you.
Today I am sipping coffee with a bit of chocolate in it, curating, and listening to music.
When you have social media accounts and an ongoing ministry, it's never just 'click and go.' There is a lot of curating to do. I checked my podcast in iTunes and found it had dropped off 100 episodes ago. I reinstated it, but not before having to set up 2-factor verification, and a lot of scurrying around to find the right combination of rss urls and so on. I also added the podcast to several outer outlets, with similar scurrying and aggravations involved.
I am now going through my files on my laptop and deleting so as to save some gigagbytes. I am nearing the last third of room on this computer. I'll probably buy a new one next year when my schools offer the annual discount.
Also going through my scripture pictures and deleting ones I now consider ugly. One grows in skills, and earlier ones I see now are clunky and amateurish. Not that I'm anything like a professional, lol. There are trends in photography, and some pictures I'd overlaid scriptures onto now seem outdated. In ministry, you don't want anything to deter anyone from reading, whether it's a blog, or a Facebook post, or an Instagram scripture picture and caption. Outdated photos or overlays do deter, and really, since the public is so visual now, having a sparkling visual accompany your material is critical.
I also checked and refreshed my "Donate" buttons, as well as blogs on the blogroll. Blogs go dead quickly. It always amazes me that I possess books written 200 or 300 years ago that are still readable, but blogs expire in 2 or 5 years. The internet might be forever, but it seems that people's production of them have a short shelf life.
So things take a lot of management, curating, and refreshing. I usually do this kind of thing when I have a school break, because I have time and the mental capacity to devote to it. As I said, curating one's social media takes time and thinking. Lots of decisions on templates, verses, blogs to write, customization that never goes smoothly...
My Thanksgiving so far has included creamy coffee with some chocolate oatmilk drizzled in, quietude with twinkling Christmas lights surrounding me, and bluegrass hymns. I plan to throw a chicken in the crockpot with potatoes and carrots in a bit. Yesterday I made almond flour banana muffins and a Mexican tortilla casserole. I'll start off with breakfast of scrambled eggs, and bagel chips with smoked salmon and cream cheese. I have my own 'feasts'.
I've got a couple of books to read, one on Everest in 1951, a Puritan paperback called The Wiles of Satan (which I started yesterday), and a Charles Martin novel to continue on ("Wrapped in Rain"). I do not plan to go out but to enjoy the hominess of a day to myself (which I love). Good music, good food, good books...
I'm thankful for my job with children, for my colleagues and bosses, for my home, for a life that Jesus regenerated and established for His name. There is nothing better than that- salvation by His blood and given the grace to believe His word.
Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!
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