For some time now, I have been contemplating a blog, but there were a number of obstacles, real and imagined, to be overcome.
1. I am ridiculously busy. Husband, home, two small children, full-time job, part-time job, and multiple church involvements.
2. I hesitate to share most of my personal views with the world. I am more conservative than most of my liberal-leaning friends, yet more liberal than my conservative-leaning friends. I am not entirely comfortable sharing my "Christian worldview" in case others don't share my perspective. If I talk about my kids, am I alienating those who aren't parents? If I talk about my job, how do the stay-at-home moms feel?
3. I have a continual fear that something I say will be misconstrued. [closely related to item 2] Sometimes my sarcasm just doesn't register the way it's intended. Sometimes I come across as arrogant and other times as a person in serious need of a self-image boost, and oddly enough both are probably true.
But in the end, I've decided just to be myself, as genuine as possible, as true to myself as I can manage, and to document my life and my family's comings and goings in a new way. So, enjoy, cyber-readers, and don't hold it against me.
Jessica
good for you...
ReplyDeleteGreat first post! I love how you tie the theme of the blog into the point of the first post. Great start!
ReplyDeleteI like this post. And you are right to fear that things will get misconstrued and that your Christian worldview might not be the same as others. But that's okay. To me, it's also the joy of grace, that at one time or another both sons were out of the house in the story of the prodigal son, yet the father went after both. What a great God we serve.
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