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August 09, 2006
Rambling on...
If you have noticed that my blogging has been sparse at best, well, that's because I'm trying to take my own advice, and follow something of the principle that I listed in my last entry: "Stress, Recover, Improve." I have been realizing how drained I have been in different areas of my life, especially in the blogging arena.
Therefore, my thinking usually goes something like this: "Rhett, I know you don't want to write a blog entry, nor do you feel like you have anything worthwhile to say, but if you don't just put something out there, then people will stop coming to your blog, and you will lose traffic, and all that hard work will go down the drain." Totally crazy, right? Totally irrational, right? And anyways, isn't blogging supposed to be fun as well as informative. This is something of the wrestling I have been going through.
I have also found that blogging has sapped other areas of my intellectual, creative, and reflective life. It's hard for me to sit down and work on some writing when I spend good time working on a blog.
So I'm just wondering where blogging fits into my life. How to properly integrate it, so that I'm not driven by blogging, or vice-versa. For now, I find blogging to be a great outlet to connect with others, to share ideas, to challenge one another. How that looks, I'm not sure.
I admire bloggers like Mark Roberts who are so disciplined and can blog so eloquently and comprehensive on one topic for months. It's like the unfolding of a book before our eyes. I also admire Brent Thomas who post different issues everyday that he is very passionate about. It's like a sermon everyday. I couldn't do that.
Then I also admire bloggers like Mike DeVries who seems to really enjoy blogging for itself, and doesn't seem to feel the pressure of putting out material everyday. He posts on what interests him, from what he is reading, to what is happening in his community, to what he thinks on issues relating to the church, theology, culture, etc. I admire someone like Andrew Jones who seems like he blogs non-stop, except when he is on one of his amazing pilgrimages, but even then he seems to find a wireless connection. Amazing. The breadth of his blogging, and the issues he tackles, from the "emerging church" to technology, to theology, etc. I love his blog.
These are just four of the bloggers I like to visit everyday, and they are all different in style, technique and theological outlook. But somehow, their differences contribute to a broader understanding of what the theological, Christian, blogging community looks like and I think we are all richer for it. So I guess I'm just wondering where I fit into all of this? What are my gifts? What should be my contribution?
Posted by rhett at August 9, 2006 10:27 AM
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