I have to confess this morning to a slight case of "sour grapes." I say that, partly in jest, because I just took my daily trip to a terrific blog written by a niece of mine and noted that my blog looks wimpy by comparison.....and it all started with grapes. Green grapes to be exact. So maybe I should have titled this Green With Envy.
My niece's blog, "From City Streets to Country Roads" arose out of two key facts in her life: 1) although born and raised in cities, God saw fit to hitch her to a "country boy" and eventually they moved out to a place I can find only with a GPS and some prayer, and 2) she loves photography and is very good at it. Consequently her life is full of interesting activities that always come complete with a plethora of terrific pics. So when I went to her blog this morning, right on top was a picture of a bunch of (green) grapes that, due to the wonder of God's creation and the quality of Suzi's photography, look just delicious. Her blog also contains a number of buttons, bells, whistles, referrals to about 217 other interesting blogs, etc, etc, etc.
My blog on the other hand, has only a fuzzy background of blue skies and a few clouds and the text. Her blog seems to say, "Here is a site done by an interesting person with talent and some good things to offer," whereas my blog seems to say, "Well okay...you're here, you might as well read on." Of course God has given me other gifts and it is poor faith and ungrateful theological second-guessing to complain that he might have added some other or different gifts to the mix. Also I have to admit that I do have enough creativity to make my blog site more interesting if I took the time and made the effort to do so.
So while I am green with envy at Suzi's grapes, I might be better off trying to improve my site. But that would involve work. It's easier to just wallow in my sour grapes............:)
