Welcome to the newly refurbished WunderKraut.com!

Sorry for the down time, but I feel it was necessary.

So, here we are. Now what are we going to do?

First off, there are a few cosmetic changes to the site. The first can be found on the right sidebar. Under Topics, I have a category called “The Best of WunderKraut”. Here I have carefully selected only be finest, hand picked Columbian posts for your reading pleasure. From time to time if lightning strikes or if I actually write a post deemed worthy enough to be enshrined in The Best of WunderKraut, I will add it to the list.

Secondly you will notice a drastically reduced archives.

I have been writing WunderKraut.com since February of 2005. You can imagine that in that time I have accumulated my fair share of posts. The old style for the archives had a very long listing of every month from the past 4 years. This took up a bunch of space and was a bit confusing. I found a wonderful WordPress plug-in that allowed the archives to be collapsible as you can see. But even that left me unfulfilled.

In the end I decided to “restart” the archives with the re-launch of WunderKraut.com. The reasons for this change can be found in my main motivation to reformat WunderKraut.com.

When I started WunderKraut.com I made a conscience decision to not share about my religious beliefs.

But, as time and my life went on, I found it harder and harder to square my private religious beliefs and with what I was writing on my blog. It wasn’t that I was writing anything that was heretical or that I was ashamed of, but it had more to do with what I wasn’t writing about.

Christmas of 2005 was a big event in my life in regards to my Christian faith. I will write about that night later, but just understand that in many ways my views on life and of God were forever changed. Later in March of 2006 Jen and I attended a parenting conference which further rocked our world. We were moving in new and exciting directions. Yet still, I kept it from my blog.

Things finally reached a breaking point between my and my blog in February of this year. I threw up my hands and quit. During the past few months I have been doing a lot of thinking and praying and I have made up my mind.

From now on all aspects of my life will be open to this blog. What that means is that you all will get to know a totally different side to WunderKraut.

This also means that I will be writing about my personal experiences with the Lord and how my life has changed. I will not be preachy or “religious”. No, I will simply attempt to put into words how my faith in Jesus Christ has changed my life and my family’s life.

So, this is the main reason why I changed my archive system. In a way, I am turning over a new leaf so I want my archives to reflect that, but at the same time what I’ve written over the years is still there for the reading. I am what I am due to the experiences I have written about in the past. I may not write about politics as much and I may not link to some of the things I linked to in the past but I am also not ashamed of what I’ve written.

I know that some of my readers have different beliefs or no beliefs at all, and that is ok. This is the truth that I know and that is all I can write about.

I have a few posts lined up to begin hitting as early as tonight. I hope you enjoy the shift and as always I welcome your comments, both for and against. If you’ve learned anything over the years, it should be that it is hard to hurt my feelings.

Take it easy.