Not Eight Days a Week

My father used to like the Berger Paints motto: it keeps on keeping on. Dad was a promoter of persevering, and with him, it wasn’t Do as I say, but not as I do.

My dad was a great role model, in many ways. He was methodical, had good habits, and was he ever persistent! An example of this was his daily routine after dinner, of reading his Bible, then writing in his diary, night after night, for thirty years! He never seemed to miss.

I try to keep on keeping on, but get easily distracted, lack motivation, and forget!

It’s now a year since I began writing David’s Daily. At first it was daily, then several times a week, and then weekly (or weakly), and so I renamed it David’s Dally. But I have written over a hundred posts on a variety of subjects, including short book reviews, musings about music, observations about politics (very occasionally), my thoughts on the Bible, theology and other things related to my clumsy efforts to follow Jesus.

Very few people read my stuff, and I’m thankful for the twenty or thirty folk who do.

While I’ve been publishing with substack, I’ve discovered some excellent blogs, including Demotivations with Anne, Jason Chatfield's, Mark Durie's excellent free blog on Islam and related topics, including Hamas and the current war with Israel, Word from the Bird (from Ridley College’s Dr Mike Bird), and Mitchell Chase’s Biblical Theology Dr Chase’s one is the only one for which I have a paid subscription. I greatly appreciate those who do not charge for the good stuff, like Rev Mark Durie.

I also enjoy watching Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion materials on YouTube, and his substack blogs. What fascinates me about Keillor is that he provides new material daily. While many of the things he publishes are “things I prepared earlier,” I discovered that he writes every single day. He gets up at 4 AM, writes until about 9, at which time his wife tenderly puts her arms around her octogenarian husband and invites him to breakfast.

I’d love to publish something every day, but I’m not getting up at 4 AM to do it.

Thanks for reading! I’ll try to write more regularly, and hope you continue find what I write worth reading.