I've held off on re-entering the blog world for some time now. It's not that I haven't had anything to say, it's just I haven't been persuaded that there's a good reason to say it in a blog. Here are some of the pushbacks in my mind:
1| Don't I already output enough? I spend a good deal of my time in thought, and from that cerebral jogging I output the material for teaching at my church. Do I really need another venue to say things that I'm already saying? You can already hear it online.
2| The world doesn't need another blog. Not to focus the insult specifically, but there are enough banal blogs of mindless material clogging the pipes of the interweb. Do we really need one more guy draining a laptop battery and a caffeinated drink into the 'perfect' blog post?
3| Who would want to read it? Honestly, my life is as exciting as a middle school chess tournament. I generally enjoy it, but I doubt the masses are clamoring to be in vicarious relationship with me. If this blog falls in the forest, would anyone even notice?
These basic barriers kept me from striding back into the blogosphere with a shiny new blog. (There are more issues than this, but to discuss them would prove point #3.) So why am I blogging again?
I'm hardwired. I'm of the persuasion that God shapes each of us with a purpose in mind. My purpose is to communicate Christ. A barrage of free to medium-priced personality tests conclude that I absorb information, process it, and fit it into larger conversations of meaning and connectedness. I need to hone this gift, and I'll be sharpening the blade here. I reserve the right to re-use, delete, disagree with, and embellish anything I say here. Expect a magnum opus postus to be sandwiched between incoherent nonsense. You might find this blog interesting, or you might rather play sudoku with hexadecimal numbers. Either way, no one has a gun to your head.
