Its Dec 1. Let the Christmas season begin! If you have some ideas for 2005, its about time to get the word out. As far as I know, there is no blog project lined up for this year. Some of us who participated in the world’s first GridBlog followed it up with an Advent :: Grid Blog a week later. I am often wrongly credited with it but it was actually Bob Carlton and Steve Taylor (Emergent Kiwi) who kicked it off by suggesting an image and bloggers responded with thoughts and poetry, adding the :: tag so it could be easily aggregated on Google. Each week had a different image and idea.
it
appears
backstage
the kingdom of God
an entrance
unpromoted
without applause
in genres unused
in fonts never bold
in places hidden
corners
it
appears
backstage
eluding those
who scramble for the prized
who lust after the spectacluar
who never find themselves
backstage
the presence of God appears
among poor people
seekers
who are learning where to look.
(backstage, by andrew jones, 2003)
Technorati Tags: advent, christmas, religion, spirituality
I’ve been blogging advent this year and also did not find any collaborative advent project.
i’m running with some friends an advent blog everyday at http://hopefulimagination.blogspt.com
should be good
Andrew,
i’m not tall enough, nor skinny enough for anyone who’s seen the two of us together to ever truly confuse us.
steve the shortlittleemergentkiwi
It is refreshing to browse your site and I know that you will continue to honor the Truth on the web. I would very much like your comments if you have time to check out my humble blog site “The Peek Perspective” at blogger.com- I have just started the blog and not so sure about the process, but would greatly appreciate your comments and your assistence or advice in promoting traffic to my blog, should you find it the right thing to do. Many thanks and keep the faith.-Peek
There’s a great community advent blog sponsered by the Boars Head Tavern over at http://advent.wordpress.com
Come and check it out.
Glad to link to ya! I really do like the poem. I love the last lines “seekers/who are learning where to look”. It’s why I posted the picture I did with it–it’s a neighbor hood I worked and lived at for a summer and found that statement true.
I have a meme-creation post on Advent grid blogging here, with a ton of RSS feeds to track the grid blogging. It also displays recent posts from these feeds on the page.
I recommended using Technorati this year (just link to this page), since it does basically the same thing, and Google Blogsearch will pick it up really well. My first entry is here.
Thanks for making it happen, everyone, and thanks for bringing it up, Andrew.