About

Life is a Prayer is the personal website of Jeff Geerling, and has been around, in one form or another, since the late 1990s.

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About the Website

Life is a Prayer is the culmination of many years of work on more than eight different websites. Originally, I (Jeff Geerling) had the idea of making a simple page where I could put pictures up of family members to share with them, and post my resumé. This was back in the days of Netscape Navigator 3.0 and Claris Home Page.

Over the years, I started working on some more profitable ventures, including some websites for private small and large businesses, and my websites began to multiply. After I joined Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in 2004, I had less time to manage my websites, so I decided to consolidate my work on the web.

I'm happily able to control the look, style and content of my site with ease unheard of in my early days of web development (ca. 1996), using Drupal and semantic HTML and CSS.

The website currently runs on Drupal, and runs on a server at Hot Drupal.

About the Author

Jeff Geerling - Social Media Portrait I am a web developer and media consultant living in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri. I have been working on many different websites and applications over the past few years, and decided to begin a blog in my first year of studies (in 2004) at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary which I still maintain today. In 2009, I started Midwestern Mac, LLC, a company dedicated to web design, and mobile and desktop app development. I've built many websites since then, including the LOLSaints.com site and podcast, Catholic News Live, and Open Source Catholic.

I am currently working as a consultant (mostly for flockNote), increasing the Church's ability to communicate using new methods of social interaction and new technologies both online and in the 'real world.' View my resumé.

I am married to a beautiful woman, Natalie, and will be posting more stories from our marriage as time progresses on my blog. (We also have a website for our wedding/marriage: geerlingguyandgirl.com).

I love discussing faith, politics, religion, technology and philosophy on my blog and with others, and I try to glorify God in all my activities.

I have used Macs, Windows PCs, and Linux desktops and servers extensively, and use a Mac as my main desktop platform. I've only had one or two small problems with any of the Macs I've owned, and I can count on one hand the number of times the Mac I'm currently using has locked up in the past three years (without ever reinstalling the system!).

One of my other passions, photography, has grown from an enjoyable hobby to a passion in the past few years. I currently shoot with a Nikon D7000. With few exceptions, I shot all the pictures in the Pictures section of this website, and if you'd ever like to use one for something or another, please ask (I also have a bunch of photos on Flickr).

I pray daily for an increase in vocations to the priesthood, and remember fondly the five years I spent in formation for the Catholic priesthood. I ask that you pray for all seminarians and priests, as well as for those discerning a vocation to the religious life or to married life.

-Jeff Geerling, April 2011

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