Judah’s Journal is three years old today! I had not given a thought three years ago to that I would still be writing stuff for an online diary in three year’s time, but neither did it occur to me that I might have stopped by then too. There were no great plans or ambitions. It was just a fun thing to do. Time passes, and here we are… still going strong.

A year ago there had been 157 entries, 382 comments, and visits from over 70 different countries representing over 40 different languages. A new statistics program was installed but has not been working properly. However, I can claim there to be an additional 44 entries and 100 comments. My output has slowed a little, and it does come in waves, like little energy surges. Determined by appearances alone, Wikipedia calls these episodes of “blogstipation”, assuming a state of inability to think of any topic to blog about, and leading to irregular, strained blog entries. Such a condition may be followed by a sudden unblockage caused by a “blenema”, or interesting event, and occasionally a rush of subsequent entries known as “blogorrhea”.

But to say that of Judah’s Journal is perhaps being a little hypochondriacal and rather extravagent. I have never really been stuck for things to write about, but more often than not, overwhelmed by the amount of what there is to be said instead. As a primarily Christian blog, there is much to report in this post-Christian era which is fast becoming what was predicted by the late Dr Francis Schaeffer, an anti-Christian era. Thus there is much to say, and none of it likely to be popular at that. But popularity is not that important to me. What is far more important is Truth, and understanding that it is indeed objectively knowable inspite of what fashionable postmodern thought would have us believe. The truth is that which corresponds to reality, and although we may all have a perspective on reality, perspectives do not change the facts and substance of reality itself. In the end it is how we respond to reality that will determine what becomes of us, now and way beyond now. Most of us live in states of varying degrees of denial. Reality is not changed by any degree of denial. It takes courage to face the truth, and this Age is largely a cowardly one. I don’t expect to be popular for saying such a thing, but neither do I consider myself answerable to anyone other than He who claimed to be the Truth Himself.

Nope, no hypochondiasis here. No blogstipation with rebounding blogorrhea. Just whatever bubbles up and froths forth, digital tappings upon my keyboard, on whichever of those days that distractions don’t detain me. So launching into a fourth year of cruising cyberspace, off goes I in Judah’s Journal.