I hope all the loyal blog readers (which I think includes my mom and maybe one other person – love you, Mom!) have a wonderful Thanksgiving.   

As the two of you have no doubt noticed, the frequency of my blogging has decreased over the last six weeks or so.  I don't anticipate the frequency increasing much in the future.  My goal going forward is to blog twice each week: one entry on the upcoming Sunday morning and then one other entry on something I've read in the Bible, in some other book, or in the news.

However, I have begun a new way to stay connected through the miracle we call the enter-net.  Earlier this week I opened a Twitter account.  Twitter, for those of you who don't know, is basically a mini-blog; participants are limited to 140 characters per post.  The way you use Twitter is to sign on for yourself and choose to "follow" the posts of other people on Twitter.

Many people use Twitter to let their followers know the inane details of their lives: what they had for supper, their favorite television show, when they go to the bathroom.  If I begin to use Twitter that way, you have permission to shoot me.

Rather, I hope to model my Twittering after John Piper's – he posts three or more times a day not on Piper minutiae, but mainly on things that flow out of his daily Bible reading.  They read like very short sermons, and have all been encouraging to me. 

While I simply do not have at this stage of my life the intellectual stamina and/or ability to write three or four substantive blog posts to go along with two or three sermons each week, I think this twit can tweet three times a day.  At any rate, that's my goal.  If you're interested, my Twitter account is "jdshawms."  If not, good day, and God bless.