J.A. Greer commented on my reflective blog post "Journaling about life, and making it interesting is hard, which is why I don't think folks really do it."
I think that is a valid point. With a written journal, which no one but you and God ever sees, you can get away with vapid entries. On a blog, however, there is a little more pressure to spice it up and make it fun for others to read. Life is not always that interesting ... I concede that point.
However, some people seem to have a knack for writing introspective posts about what God is teaching them and letting us read their thoughts. An example is Steve Addison at World Changers. Check out his post What Am I Learning?
First off, Steve asks a great question. What am I learning? In other words, what is God teaching you?
He asks his friend in an email, gets a response, and gets the question thrown right back at him. This happens all the time to me, btw :-) ... ask a question and get your question asked of you.
I like the format he uses by sharing an email thread ... clever.
Look at some of the lessons he's learned. A couple jumped out at me.
One, "work with people who are passionate, don't try to change people who aren't." Steve's right. Look for the dry timber in your church that is ready to burn. So often we invest our time and energy trying to dry out the wet wood instead of striking a match and throwing it on the dry kindling.
A second thing jumped out. Steve wrote his post while suffering a bout of insomnia ( I have been there done that ). Then he writes rhetorically ... "I should be praying but instead I pick up my email. Why do I choose email over the living God?"
Ouch. That got me. That reminds me of the C.S. Lewis quote from the Weight of Glory :
"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."
I often have a choice -- engage in praise and dialogue with the one true, infinite, eternal and living God ... or read blogs. I am ashamed to admit how often I choose blogs... far too easily amused indeed.
Anyway, Steve offers a nice example of the kind of reflective blogging that can provide helpful insight to others ... as well as little rembrances of God's faithfulness.
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