New Blog

Welcome to Norvell's Notes

Thirteen years ago I started writing a weekly devotional "A Norvell Note" and sending it to a few friends and folks from the church where I was preaching at the time (Cameron Avenue in Colonial Heights, Virginia). My thinking was, "This Internet thing has come real potential. Although there is a lot of stuff that should be avoided, if we provide good quality writings, who knows people might actually read it." I had no way of knowing that 676 articles (or somewhere in that range) later I would still be writing, and some people would still be reading. And, sure enough the Internet thing has really caught on.

Thanks to the folks like Phil Ware at Heartlight.org and David Matthews at Faithsite.com these articles have been share with more people and in more places than my feeble mind can imagine. With the help of these guys I have met people via Internet and email from literally all over the world.

At some point along the way I began to post these articles on a website: www.anorvellnote.com. I have since learned that was an early version of a blog. When I started I had no idea what a blog was. All I knew was that it was a great way to store (archive) my articles and make them available for anyone who might want to read them, or share them. A little later a very dear friend, Dodd Hartness, began taking my articles, after I write them and send them out (usually late on Sunday night or early Monday morning), adding a photograph, doing some editing, making a few adjustments here and there, and posting them on my website for me.

Now, after all that time and all those words I'm starting a new blog. I'm still not exactly sure what that means. But, here goes.

Thanks to all these folks who have helped take what were very primitive efforts to share a few thoughts on how I see God work in my life and the world around me, to what is hopefully a less primitive effort. There are no words that can adequately express my appreciate for all who have had a part in the process of sharing these writings. I hope and pray you will continue. And, I hope you, the readers, will continue to read, respond, and share them with other people. That's what they are for. I am always grateful when one of the articles finds a good home.

I hope this effort at real blogging will be as rewarding and fulfilling as writing "A Norvell Note" has been. Oh, by the way, Lord willing and if my mind does not totally leave me anorvellnote.com will continue to exist, and each Sunday night/Monday morning a new article will appear in the mailbox of all who have subscribed.

Thanks for reading.

Tom