Blog 3192 – 07.28.2024

Still On Course Seven Years Later

In March of 2015 I began this blog as means to an end, that of creating a platform to aid me in getting a book published about my dearly departed daughter called, Emily -The Little Girl Who Sang Her Song To Anyone Who Came Along.

The immediate goal was to get ten thousand readers, followers, of my blog. Seven years in I have about three hundred and twenty-five followers worldwide. On a peak day my blog might receive a hundred or two hundred views but usually the viewership is only in the teens or mid-twenties.

A secondary goal was to improve my writing skills and become a better writer. I think I am accomplishing that goal, but my readers will better be the judge of that. Not long into doing this daily blog I decided to change my goal from 10,000 fans or followers to 10,000 blogs. At one a day, I will have to live 6,808 more days, or a little over eighteen and a half years which will put me at about 91.5 years old.

I am doing everything I can to insure that my body, my mind, and my spirit stay strong for the long haul. Whether I achieve this goal or not depends upon a lot of factors outside of my control. It is a wonderful thing realizing that we do not control everything.

One definition of “worrying” that I particularly like say something like “Worrying is assuming responsibilities above our pay grade” or words to that effect. I try to remind myself daily to be “glad and grateful that everything that I could ever want or need is already mine and coming to me at just the right time and in just the right time from my loving and infinite source.”

I can do some things, yet my higher self (my loving and infinite source) can do all things. I have set my sails, but it is the wind that moves me and ultimately determines whether I shall reach my destination. I will trust the wind.

The poet has said it thusly, “Lean not unto thine own understanding, but in all they ways acknowledge the Lord, and He/She will direct thy path.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White