This Doesn’t Have Anything To Do With NASCAR, But I’m Sharing It Anyway…

… because it does have to do with this blog.

I’ve mentioned on occasion that I first started blogging about NASCAR in August of 2003.  I’ve saved all my posts from the first one onward, with the idea of perhaps eventually reposting them all here.  Even the really stupid and embarrassing ones.  I’m not much for revisionist history, even when doing so saves face.

As of yet I haven’t reposted much of anything.  Too many posts, not enough time, been busy doing other things.  There is however one post from August 2005 I’ve put back up.  Here’s the link.  Although I didn’t know it at the time, it’s a rather important one.  It chronicled an event that would shape and come to dominate not just my blogging, but my life.  Earlier this evening, what started on that August night in 2005 came to fruition when I sent the files for God’s Not Dead (And Neither Are We) to the publisher.

To me, GND is more than a book.  It’s the fulfillment of a dream I thought had died in 1994 when I walked away from what had been my overriding passion in life, namely spreading the word through journalistic efforts about the music and artists I loved.  It’s the living symbol of my broken, bitter, brooding heart again made whole.  It’s the final chapter of what was started in 1987, relating the stories of the artists I wanted to talk to all along but almost never had a chance to speak with except in passing.  It’s a reminder to those who remember and living history for those who want to learn where they came from.  The book is offered with the prayer that when read by others it will do for them what it did for me in writing it: bring me Home to once again taste life and love in the presence of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

This is why NASCAR’s played second fiddle for a while.

For the sake of the book I’d put this blog (and a lot of other things) on the back burner.  Late last year I walked away from the amazing SportsBlogs Nation to focus on it more fully and not abuse the privilege it was to write for SBN by delving into the book and related matters on its NASCAR site created for me.  Now that the book is done, while the plan is to resume regularly writing here, offering for your approval the mix of commentary and entertainment I like to present on this site, the book and the Spirit behind it will always be preeminent in my heart.  I hope you’ll excuse me when this manifests itself by my occasionally going into preacher mode.  Even we rat bastards can use a little churchin’ up now and then.

To those of you who’ve been kind enough to stick with me while I’ve been quite quiet on the NASCAR front, thank you doesn’t even come close to cutting it.  But it’s all I’ve got.  I pray as I gradually get back into the swing of things your patience will be rewarded.  Hopefully I haven’t lost my edge.  If anything, now that I’m back where I should be the edge should be even keener.  We’ll see.

Thanks for indulging my little musing about things.  God bless you all.