I do this because there is this urge inside me that has been there a long, long time.  Yesterday I was going through some files and piles of my stuff and I came across the out line of a book I started years ago.  I know that this blog also has the beginning of 'books' in a few places long past.  I thought about my desire to write so as to leave something for my 'posterity' and then it hit me.  I have done that.  I only need to turn stage left to see the book shelf in my office to see numerous volumes of books that I have written including some that we have given to each of you in certain years.  I wonder if you still have them.  I wonder if you use them.  I wonder if you ever think about them.  Part of that 'urge' is based upon commandment and promise about writing journals and family histories.  In that rummaging through stuff yesterday I also found a copy of Newel Knight's journals.  He is a grand father (great....)  of mine and I enjoyed reviewing his life and the part he played in early church history.  I hope that I don't have to wait 4 or 5 generations before my journals are 'discovered'.  The reason that I have organized them in that bookshelf in my office is to make them accessible to you.  Now you know, and are therefore accountable!   Even those 2 short thoughts I wrote yesterday are big to me.  I wonder if they can be to you.  It caused me to do that 'rummaging' in order to collect several of those from years past with the idea of putting them together into another 'book' that I would give to you.  I wonder if it would have any value as all of the other stuff that I have written does (?).  Anyway, it is my itch and my scratch.  Where it goes from there I cannot control.  I can only keep on and hope that there will be benefit to our posterity at some point in time now or in the future.