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The Start of Something New


After a long conversation with a friend and colleague in ministry I had the revelation that I am the only thing stopping me from blogging on a more regular basis. I am the one who comes up with reasons why I don’t have time, energy, or ideas to write about.  When I think about it, none of those things are true. I have time -- I just find other things to do, like waste time on Facebook; I have the energy -- I just expend it on other things, like reorganizing the piles of papers on my desk; and I have ideas -- I just always seem to convince myself that no one else would want to read them.  

This is why it is good to have friends! They are able to convince you, when you start down the "woe is me" path that no one cares what you have to say, that you are only holding yourself back.  They remind you that if you only have conversations with yourself you will never know if others agree with you. They share with you times when your insight and ideas have changed them for the better.

Unedited, often uncensored, constantly connected, continually streaming information is the way of life for many of us.   People --all kinds of people -- have thoughts to share: they type them out, hit enter, and BAM!!! there they are in black and white.  Too often though, these thoughts appear with very little thought put into how to best communicate them and with too little effort to check spelling and grammar.

I think that is why I have been so sporadic and haphazard with my blogging.  I know that I want to share my thoughts with anyone who wants to read them, but I wasn’t ready to have those thoughts commented on by others because I knew that they could never be taken back.  Now however, after some deeper thinking and conversations with several people about what to do, I am ready. I have discovered that all it takes to put your thoughts out there for the world to read is thick skin, the ability to formulate your thoughts into coherent sentences, a little organization and -- yes, the dreaded “s” word… schedule. I have created some organization and a schedule that will help me share my thoughts, prayers, concerns, joys, and random thoughts;

  • Sunday- A prayer for the week
  • Tuesday- Food for Thought
  • Thursday- Theological Thursday’s (I will post on something theological- a term, a concept, a theologian, etc.- I would be glad for suggestions as well.)

I am putting this schedule out there so that readers will hold me accountable by sending me email or commenting on a previous post if I am not living up to this commitment.


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