So, yes. I have a big case of it.
I couldn't tell you exactly why my blogging is so irregular these days. I still spend a decent amount of time in front of the computer - especially editing photos and posting them on Flickr. But I just don't blog like I used to. I don't even read them like I used to. (sorry)
Maybe some of my blogging when I lived in Cleveland was for sanity - maybe some was out of boredom. I didn't really have a real community to talk with there, and the church and job there was difficult sometimes. Blogging in relative anonymity may have been a safe place to write some things then. And, sometimes it definitely was more fun than other tasks I had to do.
I think about things that I'd like to write about fairly regularly - I just don't do it. I almost do it a lot. But I most always put it off. Some other things that have been important to me are in that same status right now - playing my guitar, reading books on spirituality... I guess I'm trying to figure out if it's just the season I'm in right now or if I need to "get my butt in gear" and be more disciplined. Hard to say. I'm loving worship gatherings, I'm stimulated and challenged by the messages, I discuss them with my husband and my house church, I spend time in prayer almost every morning as I drive to the Y to exercise... It's just that some things have shifted.
Last week I pondered trying to blog every day - somewhat stream of consciousness - just to get back in the habit and to see what came out. I might still try that - I don't know. I think at times I'm just too hard on myself - I want people to read what I write, and I thus want what I write to be worth reading.
So anyway, I'm still around. Just an object at rest tending to stay at rest at the moment.
PS - But hey, I have a new profile pic - that's a start, right?
Comments (5)
I think at times I'm just too hard on myself - I want people to read what I write, and I thus want what I write to be worth reading.
I am so with you on that. I often don't write because it would just be, as you said, stream of consciousness stuff. Oh, the struggles with the blogworld. :)
I hear what you're saying - we have a new Lead Pastor, and I have found that I'm listening to fewer podcasts, reading other books less, and digging into the scriptures more than in the last few years. And I hear you have a pretty decent guy teaching you on Sundays as well. Faith is fluid, and I so I kinda suspect our reaction to it and demonstration of it will be too.
I think you're an object in motion, which will tend to stay in motion, but it's just a different motion than you're used to.
For what it's worth, I do still enjoy reading your stuff!
Peace!
Mike
ps Nice profile pic too! :)
I hear ya, girl. I have been "hit-and-miss" myself. Glad to see ya still around!
Like your pic. You are right, sometimes other things take precidence to blogging. For me, spreading Pastor Don's teachings keeps my blog a bit more active. I am glad you have such a vital church that it keeps you stimulated and talking and learning.
Heather
Hello Ms. Jennifer,
You worked hard to make your site simple yet elegant. I see that you have a wide variety of personal observations here!
I like to write articles about God and religion on my site to help people to really get to know God, especially in these troubled times. "All they have eyes for is the fashionable god of darkness. They think he can give them what they want, and that they won't have to bother believing a Truth they can't see..." (2Corinthians 4:4) (Message Bible) I hope you get a chance to look at them.