So only 3 months between blogs, that’s pretty good, right? It is for me.

One of the best things about weebly.com, the website that hosts this blog and the rest of the awesomeness that is DonovanPotts.com is that it gives me statistics on the site, including the all-important page views. And that’s great because I love statistics! I especially love basketball statistics (ask me sometime about my NCAA tournament spreadsheets, yes, I said spreadsheets… na-HEY!). I like what numbers have to tell us about things, how patterns can play out,  and I hope someday if I look at enough numbers I might figure something out.

Plus, I sort of have this curiosity about how many people give a rip about what I have to say, and about my little corner of the web. It’s purely egotistical, of course.

But unlike other good websites with much more consistent numbers, my numbers are a little more up and down. For instance, on July 10, I had a total of 39 page views and 14 unique visitors. On July 11, both of those numbers dropped…

To Zero.

Nobody looked at the site on July 11.

See, the problem I have with statistics is too many people identify themselves with them.

“How much money did I make?”

“How many widgets did I sell?”

“How many people came to this website?”

They take a measurement of something arbitrary and make it into a measure of their self-worth.

People are more than numbers, and what they do are much more important. Our self-worth should come from God and from our relationships with each other.

So, I’m cool that no one came to the site on July 11. Because I’m worth more than web page views. And, it went back up to 20 on July 12. Maybe if I put more on here, you guys will want to keep coming back… so there definitely is more to come.