It’s hard to believe, but it was five years ago today that I first began blogging. As a way of celebrating my longevity in the blogosphere I’m going to highlight some of my better posts over the years. You may think this a rather self-indulgent post, but the fact is, unless prompted, most people will not take a look at a blog’s old posts. Regardless, it’s without question a very long post, so you may want to scan the subheadings for a topic you’re particularly interested in. I’ll start by giving you a history of why I began blogging in the first place and move on from there. At the end I’ll select my five favorite posts from the past five years.

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On the first Sunday of May two of my good friends, Kyle Kozloski and Nicki Nedelisky, got married in Ocala, Florida. Now, I know that I’ve been to a lot of weddings in the past eighteen months, but this one was special. No, I wasn’t in it, but I felt as much apart of this wedding as any other, including the ones in which I’ve had a role.

You see, this past year Kyle was one of my two roommates and Nicki one of my three next-door neighbors. On top off all that, all of us were campus ministers with The Navigators. When we all moved in to the respective sides of our hole-in-the-wall duplex in August ’07 Kyle and Nicki weren’t even dating, much less thinking of marriage. In short, I got to witness these chapters of their love story unfold from a very unique angle. Before I become too far removed from it, I’d like to try to tell some of that story.

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