May I have your attention please. May I have your attention please. We interrupt your regularly scheduled blogging on mj to bring you the following announcement from Knilram.

Not having enough to do around here, I’ve decided to start another blog.

I have a lot of fun posting to mj. I’ve changed tone a few times, moving from serious topics to more light-hearted ones. Almost all of my posts anymore are completely silly as I make fun of headlines and whatever happens to strike my fancy at the moment. Yes, I realize most of the time it is rather silly.

I’ve wanted to write something a little more serious, without giving up on the silliness. For years now our family has been reading through the Bible every year following Robert Murry M’Cheyne’s Daily Bible Reading Calendar. (A link to the readings is in the side bar.)

In the past, I would write some brief thoughts from something that strikes me during my daily Bible reading. It was very useful to help me concentrate on what I’m reading and not just go through the motions of working through the pages of the reading. Lately I’ve gotten out of that habit of writing a meditation from the reading, and I decided it was time to start again. Since I’m going to do it anyway, why not throw those meditations out as blog posts? Why not indeed.

But with what I’ve been posting to mj, that would mean posting a serious thought from scripture right next to a photoshopped ice hockey rink on a frozen Martian lake. The juxtaposition of secular and sacred could be a little odd. Hence the idea to create a new blog just for these daily scriptural meditations.

And so, today we roll out meditatio mea. Meditatio mea is Latin for “my meditations”, and comes from the Vulgate version of Psalm 119:97

“Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.”

I still plan to continue with the normal posts on mj, but if you are interested, check out mm for daily scriptural meditations.

We now return return you to your regularly scheduled blogging.