My apologies for having gone so long without adding any meditation. I write as the Lord moves me, and if I have nothing new to say, then I keep my peace. Since the spring of this year the Lord has opened up a new area of working for me, and now at last the dust of this activity is beginning to settle, and I have more time to just think about life - and its challenges.

One of my correspondents let me know recently that she uses Netcaster's opening page as her homepage on the Internet. In other words, when she turns her browser on, this is the page she sees. I was thinking about this, and the whole idea of a default homepage for one's browser, and decided the sort of page I would like. I though I would like to see the date, and have a small clock to remind me of the time. Then I thought I would like to see a different verse from the Bible every day, to give me some prompting for my thinking.

So I designed a date mechanism and a clock mechanism. This was the easy part. The way it works depends on the inbuilt clock of your PC, so if this is wrong, the data on the screen will be wrong too. Right click on the very bottom right of your PC screen, where the digital time indicator is, and you can correct it if it is wrong. I chose a clock design from a website of the company that makes clocks and watches to the design of the Swiss Railway clocks, at www.mondaine.com. The design is recognised as something rather special.

Then I looked, using my favourite search engine, for a site that had a different Bible quotation every day, which I could perhaps link to. There are some 'near misses' for what I actually wanted, and in the end I decided to do the work myself. So I am building 31 separate pages, one for each day of the month, and linking to each one depending on what day of the month it is. It took me a little while to work out the Javascript technique for this, and you need to have Javascript enabled on your PC for it to work.

I have found selecting the 31 passages a wonderful challenge. I must try to provide a balanced overview of the faith. All the passages are from the New Testament, and I have decided to use the Revised Standard Version as the translation. This has the cadences of the oldest versions, while avoiding the errors and changing meaning of words that diminish the value of the old versions. There is a balance between the words of Jesus (which I always introduce with "Jesus said:") and other passages. I have typed out all the passages myself, which has been a wonderful exercise. Let me know if you find any typos. In the end I also decided not to give the reference for each quotation, as I wanted the words to stand alone. Any small omissions from a passage, for the sake of continuity, had been shown by the usual three dots. All the words are pure scripture, with no additions or changes.

If you are not sure how to set a live page from the Internet as your browser's home page, here is the method for MS Internet Explorer. Go to the page, using the link you have below. Then select 'Tools' and 'Internet Options' and you will see a button to select the current page as your homepage. Click this button, then 'Apply'. For Firefox it is virtually the same, except at the end click 'OK'.

To get there click on homepage.htm. The page will open in a new window. I pray that this daily word from God will be a great blessing to you.