This, according to WordPress, is my 1000th post. It’s not completely accurate since I migrated from Blogger a few years ago, but I’ll use it.

THANK YOU to those who read. I really have found this to be a useful means of writing for me and I am glad for anyone taking this journey with me.

As I reflect on this medium, I am fully aware of the digital age and so many things going digital. All of my pictures are now digital. All of my sermon writing, class lectures, etc., are digital. There is a concern on my part to learn how to keep these things available should something happen to me and I want these things accessed.

I know more and more is going to the e-reader format.

Yet, I still love pen and paper. I will always have my books. I may finally adapt to an e-reader for limited use, but I love the page in my hand, quite honestly.

I will still journal with pen and paper and work on my messages in limited ways with my legal pads.

One reason I write with pen and paper still is to leave a witness. Digitally, this can all disappear if I don’t give someone my passwords! When I leave something with pen and paper I feel more “permanent.” (Yes, a house fire can destroy it all. Morbid thought…)

But with pen and paper somehow I am also leaving me. It’s my writing. It’s me.

So, as I enter the “post-millennial” phase of blogging entries, I hang on to both and try to embrace both. With blogging I have been able to enjoy a wider conversation with great people that could not have been afforded me with just pen and paper. So, I readily embrace this format. And I still have my pen ready to jot down ideas when I’m not near a computer.

Thank you for this journey!