I’m jumping in on the blog recapping that so many seem to be doing with a look back at their statistics for the previous year. So, here’s a look back at Trying to Follow 2007 a number of different ways.
I wrote 379 Blog Posts, viewed by over 50,000 visitors who spent an average of 1:30 visiting about 2 pages at Trying to Follow.
Top 5 Most Viewed Posts:

Why I ditched Dave Ramsey
Jena Six: Racism Still exist in the South
Failing Reading Scores = Prison Cells
Fair Trade Footwear: Walk a Mile in Ethical …

Every once in a while, you run across a truly incredible person that you want to spend all of your time with. I had the fortune and privilege of marrying an incredible person about 4 1/2 years ago. She turns 26 today, an opportunity to remember how grateful I am that God brought her into this world and the impact she’s had on my life.

Find her on facebook, here, or email or call and wish her happy birthday too.

I’ve been driving my wife to work lately and as such I turn on the radio while the kiddo naps in the back. I get bored of the music easily and so I’ve been checking out talk radio. One of the stations I’ve been listening to is a ‘conservative talk’ station. I can tell they are conservative because anytime they’ve mentioned a Democrats name or the topics of Global Warming or Immigration it’s been prefaced by negative adjectives. They call people who believe the stuff all kinds of names, which …

Each year, Doctors without Borders publishes a report documenting the 10 most underreported stories of 2007. They are all humanitarian in nature and touch on many different places and needs throughout the globe. I believe it is an essential reading for anyone who considers themselves a global citizen.
After you read the report and view the slideshow, I’d pass it on to one or two friends who you think would be interested. And file away your knowledge on these stories to bring up a couple times through out the next few …

I thoroughly enjoyed Christmas. Time with family is always a good thing, and with lots of babies around, the joy is that much greater. However, here we are, the day after, and I’m experiencing the same Christmas Hangover I’ve experienced the last few years.
You wake up and there’s wrapping paper strewn about, the house is a mess. Your stomach aches from all the food you munched on through out the day, and your mental muscles are throbbing as you contemplate who gave you what, where your going to get thank …

I don’t usually use my site as support raising (though I might do it more then most, who knows), but today I wanted to make a special request.
My good friends, Beth and Curt, are doing some awesome work in Haiti helping raise support to build wells for clean drinking water. It’s great stuff.
And today, in the next five hours, they are trying to get as many individual donors as they can through the Facebook Causes and thus win an extra $1000 for their cause.
So, be a pal and …

Connie sent me this great quote by G.K. Chesterton about Francis of Assisi. It says:
“it is utterly useless to study a great thing like the Franciscan movement while remaining in the modern mood that murmurs against gloomy asceticism. The whole point about St. Francis of Assisi is that he certainly was ascetical and he certainly was not gloomy…there was nothing negative about it; it was not a regimen or a stoical simplicity of life. It was not self-denial merely in the sense of self-control. It was …

Discovered this great satirical video about Supply Side Jesus.
5.5 minutes

Hat Tip: Gavin –> John –> Richard
Bonus!
What happens when you try to take just the “20% Free” out of a box of cereal?

ht. Keane