RevRickC

If you’re reading today, there might be as many as 3 or 4 of you now—that assumes my wife and my mother are included. But you may be wondering about the goofy name I gave to the blog—see rick rev!

I have to tell you that naming this thing was a big deal to me. You see, I put a lot of stock in words. Some people, like my friend Matt, put a lot of stock in feelings that words convey. I should pay more attention to that. But for me, it’s the meaning of the words. So I choose them very carefully, sometimes painfully, looking for just the right thing to say, and I say it, and it’s gone, and in 30 minutes, no one remembers the word I chose, they just remember how it made them feel, if they remember any thing at all. See, Matt was right.

So choosing a name for the blog was a big deal.

For a long time, I’ve used revrick as a username, if it’s still available when I’m setting up some internet account. (You’d be surprised how many revricks there are out there. I was!) So when revrick wasn’t available, I’ve used several variations on it, including revrickc.

No one calls me Rev Rick, though Joy Deason does call me Pastor Rick. She’s a funny lady. I did use it as a title, after I was ordained and deserving of it. But titles have never been very important to me. (I’m always amused by those who introduce themselves by their titles—hello, this is Bro. Robert, or this is Dr. Bob.) That reminds me of a call I got one time from someone who wanted to convince me that he was a good friend of Robert Creech. And when he told me that he was a very good friend of Dr. Bob Creech, I knew just how close they were—NOT!) But I digress.


Anyway, it’s kind of a fun thing to me, to use the title revrick. So I just did a little variation on revrickc, to become see rick rev. You know rev, like, do his thing, and rev, like rev up for sabbatical get down.

You know, the more I write, the less it seems to make sense, and certainly, the less it seems to matter. Anyway, maybe you and my mother and my wife will remember it now—seerickrev.

Care-full-y,
Rick

I threw in a few more Richmond pictures—one of the administration building and one of the library at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, and one of the James River (breathtaking, in person).