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O Lord, Give Me Patience Immediately if Not Sooner

O Lord, Give Me Patience Immediately if Not Sooner

The launch of a redesigned website requires a great deal of patience for the following reasons.OneĀ  Sunday morning our pastor described impatience, the attitude of demanding to receive what we when we want it, as a sin. His words made me feel quite smug. Because I’d just spent 3 months patiently doing hand exercises and patiently waiting for the thumb tendon I’d severed in a moment of impatience to heal.

Not once had I asked him to heal my thumb and heal it right now. Instead, I had entrusted its healing to God and hadn’t spent 3 months chomping at the bit. I was sitting pretty in the patience department. The pride thing not so much, but no need going down that rabbit hole. With my patience quotient at an all time high, I felt more than ready for the launch of the redesign of my other website, www.DifferentDream.com.

Just so you know, a redesign launch can bankrupt a person’s patience quotient faster than a person can click a button to begins the redesign launch. That’s not the best analogy I’ve ever made, but it’s the best an impatient person can do. Other than to explain to those who think they’re as patient as the day is long of how much patience is needed for a redesign launch.

  • Enough to delay the launch two days so a tech guy can manually transfer two months of posts which the test website didn’t pick up automatically.
  • Enough to figure out why ever blog post displays two of the featured image instead of one.
  • Enough to not become a quivering mound of jelly when you discover several years of archived posts have disappeared.
  • Enough to stay calm when Facebook refuses to pick up the featured image for posts you want to share, even though the blog continues to show two of the same image instead of one.
  • Enough to not burst into tears when the website is no longer mobile-friendly.
  • Enough to report all these things to the designer and tech guy in a calm and courteous manner.
  • Enough to wait for the designer and tech guy to fix all the snafus and to thank them profusely when they do it. Every. Single. Time.
  • Enough to accept the many compliments about the redesign.
  • Enough to realize that God can use the launch of a redesigned website as a way to grow your patience.

And enough to invite faithful readers of this website to visit the other website and enter the weekly book give aways to celebrate the new look at DifferentDream.com.

What Do You Think?

What Do You Think?

Email inquiries

Being a writer and blogger isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. We don’t all live in our parents’ basements and slouch around all day in pajamas. Some of us slouch around in yoga pants and sweatshirts.

Why? Because blogging and writing gets messy. If my email inbox is any indication of what other writers go through, a lot of blood, sweat and discernment goes into sifting through frequent queries sent by wannabe guest bloggers.

Some of the queries lead to productive and mutually beneficial relationships. The guest bloggers who contribute to DifferentDream.com, my blog for parents if kids with special needs, are good examples of this. But some queries make me wonder how gullible stupid gullible and stupid these wannabe authors and/or the organizations they think bloggers are.

To give you an idea, here’s the text of an email that landed in the DifferentDream.com inbox this morning:

Hi Team, (Team? What Team?)

We have better unique content on psychotherapy which we want to publish
this on your site http://www.differentdream.com as a guest post. (Tip: always begin a query by dissing the content published on a site.)

This content is good matching and useful to the readers of this blog.(Good matching and useful. What does that mean?)

Once this content is published will not be shared with any other site. (How reassuring!)

Do let us know if we can send the content to you for review.

Looking forward for your positively reply. (My positively reply? Someone’s clearly suffering from adjective/adverb confusion!)

This email is not made up. It was copied and pasted exactly as received. So what do you think? Is the email legit? Would their “better unique content on psychotherapy” lend credibility to DifferentDream.com?

I’m kinda waffling on how to reply to this one, so leave your positively reply comments below to help decide. Thanks!