Moving the Tree

Last Updated on Monday, 23 January 2012 10:14 Written by Ken Monday, 23 January 2012 10:14

Mickie was telling me this morning that she was praying this morning and felt like she should be praying for our church. Among the things she saw in prayer was that there was a tree that was being uprooted and moved to a new location – one that is dry and barren.

Aside from the obvious part of the Urban Vineyard looking to “move” to a new building (it’s a goal, not an announcement), she was concerned that the church (our local church, not the whole Body of Christ) was going to be in a dry place. This concerned her and she asked me my take on this “vision.”

I told her that the natural reaction is to be concerned for the tree (read: our church) and how it would suffer from being uprooted, but what I saw was that the Gardener knows how to care for a tree and make it flourish wherever it is. I saw that He was being more concerned for the people in the dry, barren land and how they would be fed, so he was moving a fruit tree to their location to feed them. I am fully convinced that we should be concerned for the feeding of those in the new community and not how much we would suffer from a move.

Trust in God.

Grrrrrr.

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 January 2012 11:43 Written by Ken Sunday, 22 January 2012 11:43

Why does this happen? I sit down at my computer today to spend an hour or so killing bad guys and saving the world (two different games, mind you). This is gonna be fun because there is no one around and I can kill/save all afternoon, if I so desire.

Part of the process involves sticking a CD into my computer’s optical drive. It’s been sticking when I press the button but I don’t give it that much of a thought because that’s what happens to drives when they get a couple of years on them, right?

Well, not only that, the drive doesn’t recognize my CDs. Nor does it recognize the music CD I got for Christmas, which I want to rip to the computer.

ARRRRRRGGGHHHH! Now I have to go out and buy a new CD/DVD drive. Hmmmmmm. Maybe it’s time to upgrade to a blu-ray burner.

Comments??

Whadda Joke

Last Updated on Saturday, 7 January 2012 04:14 Written by Ken Saturday, 7 January 2012 04:14

I was on craigslist last night and saw an advertisement (someone spamming the forums) for some wanna-be social network site, which I will not name because I am not interested in giving them… oh what the… You all need a good laugh.

myworldconnect.com

These clowns claim that their site is “the world’s most powerful social network…” and that they are a “leading social entertainment destination.” PUHLEASE.

Take a look at ranking site alexa.com

Facebook: “Facebook is the second most popular site in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. Search engines refer approximately 5% of visits to it. This site has been online since 1997, and the time spent in a typical visit to Facebook is roughly 25 minutes, with 49 seconds spent on each pageview. Relative to the overall population of internet users, this site’s audience tends to be users who browse from school and home; they are also disproportionately women.”
Alexa reports that nearly 40% of internet users hit Facebook.com in a given 3 month period.

MyWorldConnect.com: “Myworldconnect.com is ranked #763,942 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. Search engines refer roughly 5% of visits to the site. About 57% of this site’s visitors are in the US, where it has attained a traffic rank of 247,294. Myworldconnect.com has a bounce rate of roughly 12% (i.e., 12% of visits consist of only one pageview). The time spent in a typical visit to the site is roughly four minutes, with 30 seconds spent on each pageview.”
Alexa reports that 0.00016% of internet users hit MyWorldConnect.com in a given 3 month period.

What’s even funnier – they post fake reviews on websites trying to bump their ratings up.