Since I'm new to the blogosphere, some friends have been wondering why I'm blogging. Blogging caught my eye when I began to follow the blogs of two super-creative pastors; Chilly Chilton and Mark Batterson. I read them for awhile and decided to give it a try.
What I've found out is that any external benefits like communicating with family and friends, or dreaming out loud with my church, have been exceeded by the personal benefits. Rod Pearcy captured my thoughts exactly in the last blogging church podcast. It's great for me to slow down for 15 minutes to process something God has been teaching me that would be worth telling someone else about. For me blogging is digital journaling.
Blogging is also autobiography. It is an opportunity to "share my life on the fly." Think about it for a minute. Who can you think of in your life that you would love to see with a blog?
Here's my top 3:
Grandpa Palmer: My grandfather was a pioneer and a trailblazer. He spent almost the entirety of his ministry planting and pastoring churches in Pennsylvania and Ohio. I would give anything to have 10 or 15 years of his life shared through a blog. It would be priceless.
Bill Leach: My dad is a lifelong learner. He already makes it a priority to share his life with leaders, but in 20 years I would love to be able to point my kids to their grandfather's posts. By the way, I'm actively working on this one!
AW Tozer: He is climbing the list of devotional writers who have impacted my thinking. Could you imagine having the raw thoughts of this spiritual thinker only a click away?
I think that everyone of us has a unique story to share. We all have our own priceless perspective on life. I don't think that blogging is for everyone, but I do think the world would be a richer place if we looked for more opportunities to deposit our lives into others.
In the words of an Old Testament poet:
Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the Lord (Psalm 102.18).
