1099…sounds like a tax form, but it’s the number of blogs, counting this one, that I’ve published since I committed to blogging daily on January 6, 2019. Today completes the third year, 1096 consecutive days (including three days when I published twice!).

So what? Good question. I’ve written about “the streak” before: here’s last year’s offering with links to the end of the first year and an article on streaks.

I guess the work speaks to the dailiness of life and the importance of taking the next step. I don’t have hundreds of ideas filed away, I just write what God (I hope!) brings to mind. Some or most of what I write, you’ve no doubt heard before. As my friend Ray says, “Just because I’ve heard it before doesn’t mean I’m thinking about it now.” The same goes for me. The John 21 meditation I shared two days ago was a nice reminder to me of some important lessons I hadn’t thought about in a while.

Tomorrow (if tomorrow comes) will be blog #1100 and will most likely be from the beginning of our New Testament reading for the year, which starts with Mark’s gospel. It’s not too late to join us for the 5 x 5 x 5 plan. (In Monday’s blog, I appended a version of the 5x5x5 with readings that run Monday – Friday. Tomorrow is also Epiphany, the commemoration of the visit of the Magi. I already wrote about that, back on December 15.

As always, thanks for being with me on the journey. May you continue in the path God has laid out for you.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2.10, ESV)

And say to Archippus, “See that you fulfill the ministry that you have received in the Lord.” (Colossians 4.17, ESV)