When Human Nature Reveals God's Nature

I hope that you all are enjoying Christian Nature! This blog was a surprise birthday present for my mom, April, earlier this month. She really enjoys writing about nature through God's eyes, and I think she does a tremendous job! Her nature posts needed their own home, as her other blogs address entirely different issues.

After putting together the template, the colors and the elements, I knew that my mother would love the 'woodsy' and 'cabin-ish' feel to her new blog. Beautiful and functional. Success! Not quite. When the traffic started to roll in, many of you wanted to leave comments. When you clicked on the 'leave a comment' link... nothing happened. A blogger's nightmare!

Most of us know how frustrating the web and computers can be on occasion. This was a grand occasion! I tried adjusting the template code. I shopped for add-ons. I racked my brain. I even tried to convince my mom that only a small percentage of readers actually leave comments, and that emailed comments were easier to manage. She wanted commenting on her blog. Period.

Like so many men, I really tried to fix the problem without asking for help. I needed help! God, what do I do? Then, in a proverbial 'light bulb' moment, I thought: "Klodian". Who is Klodian?

Throughout February and March, thousands of bloggers were attempting to upload new templates to their Blogger-hosted sites. Blogger (owned by Google) decided to get picky about what template code they would allow. This resulted in "BX errors" which prevented uploading. Folks were referred to Google Help pages. The drama on these pages was fearfully intense!

Countless Google Help pages were full of thousands of angry bloggers who were losing visitors, losing customers, losing money... and losing their minds! I've never witnessed so much weeping and gnashing of teeth in my life. Surprisingly, there were no immediate answers from Google. All seemed hopeless.

Out of the angry online multitude, a helpful young man popped up: Klodian. He had a way to adjust templates' coding so that Google would accept new template uploads. He posted his method on his Deluxe Templates blog, then he left his link on many Blogger Help pages. Once people discovered that his solution worked, word spread like wildfire. Klodian experienced a virtual tsunami of traffic with questions and requests overnight.

Klodian spent many following days (and nights) helping bloggers from around the world. He was even fixing bloggers' templates manually, one at a time, with patience and some much-needed humor. Guess what? Klodian never charged anybody a penny for his heroic service to online humanity. Many were absolutely shocked by his helpful and generous sacrifice in such a competitive internet age.

It is so inspiring and encouraging to witness the patient, generous and loving qualities of God expressed through willing people like Klodian. It really makes The Golden Rule come to life once more! "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." "Love thy neighbor as thyself." These are not empty words. They live on forever through real people, like Klodian.

Now you can see why I thought of Klodian in my moment of need. I asked. I received. Klodian and I exchanged many emails over a long night until the Christian Nature blog, my mom's birthday present, was saved. Again, Klodian never asked for a penny for his help. This 'Good Samaritan' deserves trillions of pennies for his willingness to help strangers so graciously. He is a real friend.

Enjoy commenting!

This is a guest post from my son, Mark, who created the style of this blog.

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