new media midwife

We spent the afternoon yesterday at the home of Rajesh and Jill, who are about to head out to Hawaii and elsewhere for the next six months. Sounds exotic but they'll be there for the University of the Nations Crossroads Discipleship Training School. They'll be there to explore more about their relationship with God and the place he might intend for them in the world. An exciting opportunity. My small part in assisting this process was to step Rajesh through the initial steps of setting up their new blog, at his request. All enlightened self interest really, since that means I'll be able to read of their progress each step along the way! While it's yet to open its eyes, take a lungful of air, and scream out its first full blog post, this baby has been delivered. Assisting someone to bring their new blog into the world I feel like some sort of new media midwife... And I'm looking forward to seeing this baby grow and mature.

On the subject of bringing life into the world, a phone call from my brother in New Zealand this morning reminded me it is seven weeks today till their first baby is due. This will also mark my transition to uncledom, surely a most veritable land of boyish opportunity, not the least to assist said child to do (quite harmless) things the parents might tend to otherwise discourage.... Wicked.