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I rather think that the kitchen of an innkeeper wrongfully accused by history of being a harlot would be a safe place to lay down my burdens and sorrows. I believe she would have a willing and patient ear, a compassionately forgiving heart, a nonjudgemental spirit, and the grace that can only come from enduring thousands of years of slander. I also think that, if I would like to talk to anyone about Jesus, it would be this grandma more than any other person in history.
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14 comments:
Sometimes blogging helps me work through to the truth of a matter. Writing somehow clarifies things for me.
I like being transparent. I think we would all be richer in Christ if we had the ability to be real and flawed with each other, and we would see that we are more similar than we know. I think that transparency gives birth to compassion and humility and to a real apprecaition of the reality of grace.
Sometimes it's just nice to be able to see into someone's heart in a world where we mostly all wear masks made of fear. Sometimes it's nice to see that someone survived and thrived after walking the same road you are on. And sometimes we get to glimpse a big truth from God through someone unexpected. :) That's my favorite.
To me, blogging isn't just about giving, it's about receiving. We need both giving and receiving in order to be healthy people.
I am with Tyler Dawn on everything she had to say. I view blogging as a chance to become as real and authentic as possible... I have also learned that when we put ourselves in a place to do so, we are also putting ourselves up to more challenges because we are not sure how people will react. At least that is what I have learned, however, when I write I usually write for me and what God is showing me, and not for everyone else. So I don't come across all knowing or preachy. I love to get comments and ponder a lot on what people think, and that helps me grow and understand or even confirm what Father is showing me... Another way I view blogging is it helps me release things that are tide to my heart and writing has always helped me let things go even if I no one responds. Its a lot like keeping a journal, but on the internet and anyone and or everyone are able to take a peak.
I love blogging!
Good question... Love the thoughts so far and so agree...
Bloggin rocks!
What cool, wonderful people you get to "see" and know through blogging. Most people who blog are so down to earth, most of the one's I've met (there always are exceptions). It's been such a blessing and I'm so grateful!
It has literally saved me.
I think it's so neat that blogging has sort-of reintroduced the art of writing for the whole world (or those who can afford the internet), when it was becoming extinct due to other faster forms of communication and entertainment (taking away our critical thinking and our souls)
I had always wished letter-writing was still around...
Writing (and blogging) is wonderful because it makes us slow down and be more thoughtful about things... I have journaled compulsively since forever and still do, but now if I need feedback or support or just wanna share, I can click a few buttons and voila, there it is, for anyone to read...pretty darn amazing!
I actually had written a post on blogging on my blog on august 17th, called ON BLOGGING, SATAN, AND BLOGGING (that was a lot of "blogs" there : )
I got a room in my house that needs serious dejunking... and I have to tell you dejunking is detestable work to me.
So blogging keeps me from getting to that unsavoury task.
A toast to blogging !!! lol
PS and ditto to what Manuela and TD and Nicole said ;-)
Jon ~ Wrapping up my week and the
Birthday party is tomorrow. I'll write something in here in a couple of days or so. I really like the subject!
I agree with everyone here that the blogging community invites an atomosphere of authenticity and transparency that is rare in regular life. There is something "safer" about writing than face to face combat. Oops I mean contact. (fruedian slip I guess) As Manuela said it makes us slow down and think about what we are saying.
In a way it is almost a testing ground for regular life. If showing my true self here goes over well than maybe I can give it a shot in the real world.
I find that you all are good company during my day, as I work from home on my computer. A light hearted distraction....a heartfelt comfort.
Jon - you mentioned the balance between managing time between the physical world and blog world. Funny isn't that? In a way, you people aren't even real. YOU ARE IN MY COMPUTER!!! But you know parts of me that no one else knows. And I care about you all and pray real prayers to heaven for you. It really blows my mind when I think about it too much.
Blogging for me is a way to share my thoughts with others. In particular, I have very much enjoyed my religion blog where I can testify to things that I believe to be true,and discuss things of a spiritual nature.
I started with a regular blog, just posting silly things each day. As the religious posts began to increase, I felt that they deserved a more sacred spot than amongst all of my silliness; thus the creation of my religion blog.
In addition to these, I started a photo blog to share pictures that I particularly enjoy. I recently lost my camera, so that blog is stagnate until I get a new one.
Some people have wondered if I spend hours and hours a day blogging. They are generally people who don't blog. I explain to them that I dont' spent a lot of time each week, maybe only a few mintues a few days a week. But it gives me a chance to highlight things that I find of interest, and to communicate with friends and family in a new way.
Blogging for me started as a sideline, something to do because it looked kind of cool. It has become something that I never dreamed of.
Blogging affords me a place to be myself. I can write about what I want, when I want and how I want. Blogging has also helped me to understand and process what I am going through in a lot of different areas in my life. There is always someone out there who is going through the same thing you are.
Blogging has given a voice to how I feel about God, Jesus and where that journey has taken me. Not only that, but in the blogosphere, the masks that we sometimes wear outside of cyberspace are not so prevalent. I like that I can be honest and real and transparent. I also like that no matter what any of us writes, there is always someone out there who needs to hear what we are saying. It is such a God thing.
More than that though, I have found like minded people here. I have found some folks that I call friend, some that I call family and also some that I have truly come to love.
On the dark side, it can become an addiction - that's all.
I love it!!
My initial reason to blog was for a self prescribed therapy. I hoped that having the ability to have my own blog site, rather than just a pen and paper, would motivate me more to keep it up. It worked that way for a while for me until some of you started showing up. Now I blog to continue the therapy for my soul but also to stay connected to you beautiful group of people. When life gets too hectic for me to think clearly or post anything I get anxious and want to return to center and be able to communicate clearly again so that I don't get lost from this family/friends.
I did finally get a bit out tonight on my own site if any one has a moment to take a glimpse into my craziness.
Michelle
I blog therefore I am.
Or something like that.
Seriously...I needed to work through crap, like most people, and decided to do so out loud. Finding people who share my experiences, who empathize with me, accept me and who tell me I'm not crazy has changed my life. I was, for so many years, so afraid to be myself, because my true self was unacceptable in my church circles, but because I have found acceptance I have learned to be myself.
I can't believe the friends I have made and the community I have found.
Ditto...to much of what has been shared.
I started blogging because I started reading blogs and found people that I wished I could get to know....Erin being one of them. She is the one who suggested I start my own blog, so others could get to know me.
It has been scary, cause I've chosen to be myself...which can come across completely crazy. But I've been embraced anyways..and that's continued to bring freedom.
I feel like I have some family here...good family.
I still get scared, and run and hide...like I did over the summer...but I come back.
God has brought healing to me through this venue.And clarity. And wisdom. And Life.
Which gets me to this: You guys Rock!
thanks for sharing and being trasparent.
i've been in blogland since the summer of '05. first as a casual obeserver (one of my good friends had one), then as a participant. august 4th, 2005 exfoliations was born. (did you see that? one paragraph and only 7 sentances. you can tell i was nervous and afraid to come out...) strangely enough, my break with the IC didn't come until after i started blogging. as it happened, i blogged it. so it's all there, frozen in time.
it's weird. reading my old stuff, i can remember being that guy and working though that stuff. but in a weird way it seems like memories from another lifetime. the freedom i have now compared to that old life, its almost like night and day.
i guess in another strange way, like so many here, i have found rebirth in having a space to be completely transparent and vulnerable. and it is something that continues to spill over into my regular life daily.
the way i talk here, the way i think here, it has totally revolutionized the way i live my life. and i'm much the better for it.
i can agree with mike that it can be addicting. i know i had problems with that early on. but my wife and i have worked through those issues and both agree that my presence here in this place is important. and what we do here is important enough that i need time set aside to do it. we have worked on it, and now we have a symbiosis worked into the fabric of our family so that i can balance family/work/and my super-blogging alter-ego which allows me the amazing capability to touch hearts and minds all over the world without having to leave my home. that's fucking amazing.
but of course the best, as everyone else has said, are the people. i look around the kitchen here and i see some of the world's finest people. it gives me hope to know that somewhere under this same big sky you fine people scattered all over the earth, reading this in real time and space. perhaps feeling alone. but having this space to encourage and edify and pray for one another, i know now, especially, that i am not.
and i, like erin, have just been having a good time hanging out here, enjoying the conversation, and taking a break from the normal labors of maintaining a "blog."
cheers and much love...
So Jon, does your super-blogging alter ego wear a cape?
no cape. hilariously offensive t-shirts. but no cape.
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