The Future of “In the Meantime”

Okay, so the title of this post is a little more dramatic than I’d intended. When it comes to making predictions, I’m with Yogi Berra, who once said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” 🙂

With that caveat in mind, I’d still like to offer two brief thoughts about the future of this blog.

1) I hope to continue posting here, even as I transition to a new call as president of The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. I’ve been away from writing here for about a month, largely because of the need to give time to my interviews and conversations with folks at Philly; speaking at several Synod Assemblies, Luther Seminary’s graduation, and the Festival of Homiletics; and teaching two intensive courses – my last! – at Luther (and then packing up my books and driving them back to PA). Whew. It’s been a crazy month or so and it was nice not to have the additional responsibility of trying to get two blog posts out each day. That said, I’ve missed the time in devotions and time thinking about our life of faith in the Church and world and so I hope to get back at it.

2) I may not be able to post every day. I get ridiculously goal oriented and so when I started writing and posting every day it became like this crazy commitment that I just couldn’t stand to break and when I did I felt just plain bad (though I usually got over it quickly enough!). But, when you think about it, that’s a little silly. I mean, better to write regularly, even occasionally, then to stop writing because I can’t write every day. So I’m going to practice chilling out on being so obsessive with goals and write when I can and not feel bad when I can’t. (If I plan a long break, I’ll try to let everyone know ahead of time.)

So, there it is – a prediction of sorts about not the distant but at least proximate future of this blog. Thanks, as always, for reading. And if you have thoughts you’d like to share, it’s so much easier for me to receive them in the comments than by email (where I also get obsessive about answering them and feel bad when I don’t – thanks for understanding and accepting my foibles!).

Blessings,
David

PS: With the help of a good friend – and his friend! – I think I’ve figured out the Feedburner issue and hopefully these posts will go out in email form. Not surprisingly, the issue was user error!