I was reading The Onion this morning and I came across this article. I thought it was just hilarious. It seemed appropriate to our blog, and so here it is:

• The Onion – You’re All In This Together

Also, I am wondering if we might want to think about adding into our prayers things that are related to prosperity, such as success, resources, empowerment, energy, enthusiasm, time, money, luxury, divine solutions, opportunity, etc etc.

Bye for now

Hi.. this post is still a work in progress. And I am not sure that I will ever get it “done”.

This morning I spent some time promoting our blog in a couple of blog directories. So we might even end up with some more visitors. I put it on Globe of Blogs, and Blog Explosion. And I downloaded a nifty tool for backing up the blog just in case blogger.com accidentally loses our blog altogether. So I have been working on our “work in progress” all morning.

Another thing I am looking into is spiffing up our page a little bit. And I was wondering if you guys would like it to be a little more colorful? And what about a logo? or a banner? I found a tutorial on how to do that kind of thing. What do you think? Or do you like it how it is… lots of white space and just plain and simple? Let me know.. because if you all really love the white space and the simplicity.. I will leave it at that.

So.. our project is a work in progress, our site is a work in progress, and each one of us is a work in progress.. and I like that because it shows a sort of continuity.. an “integrity” of sorts.

So I paid no attention to the time zones when I set up the blog. And since I posted in the wee hours of the morning on Thursday, the post showed a “time stamp” of Wednesday.. Hence the confusion. So I figured out how to fix it, and the time showing with each post will from now on be correct. I am really sorry for that, and I can see how it could really throw you off, especially if you had missed a day or two.

Cindy posted some great comments and brought up something for discussion, you can find it in the Thursday/Wednesday post otherwise known as Day Five. 🙂

And then this morning, I ran into a huge traffic jam on my way home from work and it took me an extra hour to get home. The traffic was at a dead stop for at least 7 or 8 miles of highway. It was very interesting because the longer I sat there, the more anxious I became. I was worrying about my dogs waiting to be let out to go potty, I was worrying about the blog post being late, and then I started worrying that maybe I was in the “slow” lane and I couldn’t decide if I should try to change lanes or not, and then (40 minutes later) as we began to inch along I started worrying that my car wasn’t running properly, and what if I had a flat tire, and what if my brakes were going out.. It was just plain silly.

I finally made it home, and my tire was fine, my brakes are fine, my car was running fine, and my dogs were fine. But I had a head ache and a stiff neck from all the worrying. And it occurred to me that this is a pattern for me. If things are moving too slow I begin to worry about all kinds of stuff.. Ridiculous stuff usually.. And I get all stressed out. But when things are moving along at a good clip, I am happy and exhilarated.. And feeling good.

So that was interesting, and something to think about. It reminded me of a quote I found a while back, here it is:

Anything worth doing is worth doing slow.
-Mae West

This awesome picture is by Rob Gonsalves.

It seems to me that putting the pieces together and creating a “whole” life.. something that feels complete and comfortable requires inner work as well as outer help. At any rate. This is a cool picture, and I wanted to share it. You can find more of his work here.

Our progress so far is as follows:

• Melissa won a sweepstakes and is waiting to see how much she won.
• Saskia and her husband have been enjoying unexpected gifts from strangers.
• Daniel had an enjoyable day shopping even though he has yet to see any returns on his “prayer investments”.
• Michelle has had an abundance of … well.. read her comment from yesterday.. She is now praying for “financial” abundance.
• Shirley found some money.
• And Cindy has yet to check in.

So far so good, I think. Nothing spectacular – and our results are inconsistent so far. Of course it’s way too soon to judge the effectiveness of this particular project, but I do think that we are all experiencing something.

As for our Blog, I spent the major part of yesterday configuring the advertising. I wish we could tell Google what ads to put up – but the only choice we have is where they go and how big they can be. We did, however, already make 20 cents. Each time an ad is clicked and that site is explored in a meaningful way, we make a little bit of money. So I thought it was worth trying out.

I also added a site counter. It’s at the very bottom of the page. And I configured our blog so that we can have it sent directly to our email and/or our home pages as an RSS feed.

Our links section is updated to include Melissa’s Travel Store, Saskia’s Blog, and the dog grooming shop where Shirley’s daughter works. If you have any more links you want to include, let me know.

Lastly.. I put prosperity blogs into my search bar, and I came up with the following quotes from a site about aquariums and feng sui. They really got me thinking .. and I thought I would share them here.

Wealth can not exist in the wrong place.
Growth can not exist where no foundation is established.
Prosperity occurs where good foundation is set at the right place.

If you want to go look at that blog, it can be found here: If you have an aquarium, it might be worth a try.