A kind of valediction

Most, if not all, my writing for the foreseeable future will now be back at The Mercy Blog. I had thought, five years ago, to move my blogging activities entirely to An Open Ground, but things didn’t work out that way. An Open Ground seems to have been a more an account of my own five years’ deconstruction and reconstruction than anything else; it has not really ever done the work I originally sought to do by beginning The Mercy Blog 21 years ago last month. To underline the fact that that work is not finished, not by any means, The Mercy Blog seems to have retained a loyal readership even over the time when the site was lying fallow. I don’t know yet what the next months will bring – “All our steps are ordered by the LORD; how then can we understand our own ways?” (Proverbs 20:24 NRSV) – but I will try to remain faithful to the original premise of The Mercy Blog, and record there some of my own adventures and misadventures in prayer and contemplation, and more importantly, some of…