Today marks the end of four years of daily blogging: inspired by Seth Godin and Heather Holleman, I committed to publishing a blog every day beginning January 6, 2019. By my count, 1468 blogs in 1461 days. Thank YOU for reading!

My first blog in this string was about Simeon’s daily obedience, and it turns out that’s what daily blogging is. Just show up and write. (Full disclosure, I do not say that I write a blog every day; I publish a blog every day – sometimes I write ahead.)

Writing every day actually takes the pressure off. I don’t expect (and I hope you don’t either) every blog to be a masterpiece. I created the Ewellogy in January 2014, and in the five years from then until I started daily blogging, I wrote 32 blogs. On average, one blog every 8 weeks. I’m not any smarter now than I was then, but now I write 56 blogs in 8 weeks. One reason is the commitment. The other reason is that I don’t sit around waiting for the perfect idea. A friend of mine said,

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

And so I write. Sometimes from what I see in my daily Bible readings; sometimes from something going on in the culture; sometimes to challenge us on an aspect of discipleship or disciple-making. I take part of my commission from what Jesus said to the apostle John:

Write what you see in a book and send it to the…churches… (Revelation 1.11, ESV)