As In a Mirror

It was on the first day of September of 2009 I started this blog, and already it feels like a long time! I have not been writing as much as I used to, at least not extensively. Reason being… all right, there are too many! But one of them, I’m sure you all know, is our upcoming renovation! Yeah, Mom wants us to be plumbers.

Anyhow, I had a few spare minutes today of (mostly) clear headspace. A lot of this has been devoted to figuring out what we are going to do with half the house sealed off. I am more than confident we can do it, we just gotta figure out how!

ANYWAY… as I was saying, I started this blog a long time ago and today I was curious as to what my most popular posts are. So I figured out how to find out, and here’s what I found.

By far, I get the most visits from people all around the world checking out my photobucket page. Usually, they come to my site after looking at the different pictures of the Amazon region or people. My guess is that they have been looking for those pictures of the most recently discovered isolated tribe in Brazil. The most visited page on this blog is the Operation Auca category on the sidebar. This brings me great satisfaction, because I spent a very long time (I think a whole year!) looking for information on that topic. The Operation Auca story is monumental in my life, something that will not go away. The kind of information I wanted was the details; the little building blocks that don’t get talked about a whole lot, and I struggled to find them! The information that has been most helpful to me, I have posted here. Therefore, I really really hope that people find what they are looking for here!

My next most popular post so far has been my review of The Heavenly Man by Brother Yun and Paul Hattaway. My Dad got this book a few years ago, and it was… okay, read my review! I thought it was so cool to read about a Chinese house-church leader and evangelist who emphasizes the work of the Holy Spirit! So I am glad and hope that people find what they are looking for in this post.

Other popular posts include:

Inspiring Story: Choirs of Angels. This story totally changed my outlook on life, even on death! Once again, an Operation Auca story that took me a lot of searching to find! I know that people watch End of the Spear, and they become confused at the part when a bright light surrounds the scene of the massacre. If you don’t know already, you’d have no idea what that whole scene was about! So once again: I am glad people found what they were looking for.

LIFE Magazine article on Operation Auca. My sister found this link for me, and was I grateful! I SO wanted to see what the story looked like when it happened, just what people in 1956 heard and read! It was so exciting, and I had searched high and low for it! So I am glad that people found what they were looking for through my blog.

Word for Wednesday: Called and Chosen. The message that made me turn to the cross, the message that is still in my heart. Have you ever had a revelation so big that you were like, “I’ve got to tell everybody!” Well, this is that for me. I want everybody to know! So if that’s what you were looking for, I am glad you found it through my blog.

Word for Wednesday: Word. My study on how Christians are redeemed from sin. It’s like 2,000 words long, and I didn’t even quote every Scripture on the topic! I really hope that through this post, people who were looking for answers on this subject found them. It was in the Bible all along, but really you have to take off your rose-colored glasses to see this!

People who visit my blog also tend to browse my Music category, what they are looking for I am not sure, but I hope they found it!

What I think is also cool is that people in other countries can use Google translator to view my blog in their own language!!! Seriously, my blog has been viewed in Spanish and Arabic! I wish I could show you what it looks like; it’s so cool! (I hope they found what they were looking for…)

So to finalize, I would like to share some of my favorite posts from ages past. All the ones above are, too.

A Worthy Pursuit. My reflections on good Christian books.

I knew the Devil’s Advocate wore a baseball cap sideways! A hilarious Way of the Master clip. My readers got a real kick out of this!

Word for Wednesday: White as Snow. There is nothing better than knowing we have been made clean, redeemed unto God! Jesus isn’t just “the Reason for the season,” He’s the reason we live, the reason we offer up the sacrifice of praise!

Finally, Story Challenge Update: One Chance. This is the reason we live. This life on earth is the one chance we have to welcome somebody to enter into eternal life. This is our one chance to “Go and tell.” I wrote it to go with my Story (I know I haven’t worked on it in a long time… I am sorry! I honestly have NO IDEA when I will get to work on it again). So this song (or poem, as you can see it) communicates the message of the story Never Be Lost, but also the message of life as Christians.

So there. I have said it, and if you ever wondered what my most popular posts were, or if you were just looking for something on a particular subject, or you just wanted to hear from The Other Alice again, I HOPE YOU FOUND WHAT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR!!!

Have a great day!