My webmaster pointed out (several months ago, now) that the whole point of a blog is to, you know...write it. And that if I'm not writing new stuff, people won't keep reading. These were and are completely valid points, and were when he made them back in August.
One of the great puzzles of my life is why I am so impatient when I require so much patience from those around me. I gotta work on that.
Part of the problem with blogging more, I think, is figuring out just what this blog is supposed to be. I have a personal blog. It hasn't been written on in a while, either. But at least I know what that is: my own, personal, emotional vomitorium. This blog? This is connected to the website where I function as an actual pastor. That means anyone with access to the church website (i.e. everyone with an internet connection) can read it and know precisely who wrote it. Which means I can't come here and kvetch about a meeting gone bad, or how so-and-so is making me crazy, or have a single post that consists only of the f-bomb in 72-pt. bolded font. Or rather, I could, if I was interested in committing career suicide. And frankly? I like this place. I like these people. And I love being their pastor. So I'd like to NOT shoot myself in the foot, professionally.
So...what then? Faith from the point of view of a deeply flawed woman who was somehow called to be God's representative in the face of her flawed nature? Faith from the point of view of a member of Generation X? Faith from the point of view of someone who wonders if it's all too good to be true? Or faith from the perspective of a woman who--through that faith--has the ability to look the grinning head of death straight in the eye...and wink?
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