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It's become a tradition here at Notes from the Trail to look back over the past year's posts and find which ones were most trafficked. Here's the collection of the top 10 posts written during 2020, based on the site traffic/views.
The January episode of Ordinary Celebrity features Shelley Breen and Denise Jones, two of the founding members of the Christian contemporary music group, Point of Grace.
Enough was enough. I'd been debating for a looonnggg time. But this past week helped me push the button. I'm leaving #OSM (Old Social Media).
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 was an unhappy day for America. Not only were Constitutional processes interrupted and perhaps subverted by fear and unrest, but it was depressing. It seemed that 2021 was simply 2020 on steroids, an infinite Groundhog Day-ish loop of a repetitive cycle of mean-spirited vengeance.
Reading is deeply enjoyable for me, and as you’ll see from this year’s list, it involved spirituality, nonfiction, and fiction as brain candy. Let me know what you're reading and also if something I recommend makes it onto your 2021 list.
The annual Christmas tree toss - it’s become a sappy tradition that an international audience roots for.
We will all forever remember 2020. It has shaped our days and generation. Its impact will be felt for a long time. One of its strange gifts, for those who take the time to receive it, is its brutal reminder of helpless humanness. Oh, how we've tried to forget our frailty! Thank you, 2020, for reminding us.
Some numbers grow - like in a family due to marriage or engagement. Some numbers shrink - as in our days as they tick by. When we recognize increase and decrease and are thankful for both, we grow in spirit and perspective.
Truth, thinking and three commitments will help us encourage rather than vilify during these continuing hard days of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's past time to allow ourselves to ask our leaders significant questions, but we must do so with respect and a desire to genuinely provide solutions.