I recently finished reading Why I Am Not Reformed by Matthew Cain, a short but direct little book that does exactly what the title suggests. Cain takes the time to lay out why he cannot align himself with the Reformed system, even while appreciating the good that came out of the Protestant Reformation.

It feels like I start every update the same way, by admitting that I’ve let too much time slip by. Maybe I should set myself a reminder that tells me to write even when I feel I have nothing of value to share. At least then I’d be forming the habit of putting words down instead of letting things drift.

Much has happened since the last post, though I’m sure I’ve already forgotten half of it. My attention has shifted from this site to building the Gospel site at gospel.fromgravelhill.ca. Progress is slow, but it’s moving along. Digging through the old site’s tangled folders to pull out audio and articles is not quick work, but it needs to be done, and I feel called to do it.

Over the past few days, I’ve been getting familiar with Porkbun’s domain management. It’s fairly straightforward, but some settings are labelled differently than I’m used to. Still, I’m finding my way around.

It’s been a semi productive stretch, and one of the steps I’ve taken was registering the domain fromgravelhill.ca. It’ll serve as the central hub for my various projects going forward. This blog now lives at blog.fromgravelhill.ca, and the tentative replacement for The Glorious Gospel has found a home at gospel.fromgravelhill.ca.

The bookkeeping is officially caught up.

Three weeks of (semi-)solid focus and effort brought the entire previous year up to datem along with a bit of housekeeping along the way. I’m grateful for the opportunity, especially considering how new I was to this. It helped that someone was brought in on two separate days to show me the ropes, and it made all the difference. Now that the heavy lifting is done, I’ll be shifting to just a few days a month to stay on top of things. It should be a much easier pace than the sprint I just finished. I look forward to getting better at it, step by step.

Tomorrow is the Lord’s Day. Am I ready for worship, for praise, for remembering Him? Yes. But have I done enough this week: enough study, enough prayer, enough giving of thanks to God? No. Not even close.

He asks so little, and I still manage to give even less.

Trying to keep up and clear the clutter, physically and mentally. Today’s been one of those day’s of playing catch-up with the random list of to-dos that always seems to grow faster than it shrinks.

Time passes. My mind wanders. Things get left behind. I’ve said all this before, probably too many times, and I know I sound like a broken record by now. The truth is I forget, or worse, I don’t always care enough in the moment to sit down and write. But here I am again, doing what I should have done a while ago. Trying, at least, to catch the trail before it goes cold.

Sometimes ideas need space to grow. That’s where I’ve found myself this week—thinking, building, and adapting.

I’ve quietly launched a separate GitHub Pages site for The Glorious Gospel project. At the moment, it’s just a simple shell: a default (and admittedly older) theme with some custom tweaks—components rearranged, header image swapped, and a new favicon added.

Didn’t I say I was going to fall behind on writing these posts?

I suppose part of me forgets, and another part just doesn’t care all that much in the moment. But eventually, I circle back around to the idea that it’s probably best to get some of this out on paper, or at least on the digital paper of the web.

I’m aware that not every thought or update I share here is particularly profound. Honestly, most of it probably isn’t. These entries are more like scattered trail markers across the landscape of my mind: uneven, personal, and not always scenic. But they’re mine. And hey, no one’s forcing you to read them. Hah.