I'm thinking .............
I have had a number of people contact me after the blog regarding my slipping from one church to another. People have contacted me in person, by email and on the blog; I never know when a comment will turn up. It surprises me how many there are who read blogs but never comment, as if they have a secret insight.
I see the blogging space as a kind of window into my thought life and I feel a little nonplussed when people speak to me about my thought life. An email is almost ok because I can consider my response but I like the tidiness of blog responses, where the blog is written, to give the whole picture to a reader.
When you read a blog what do you think you are reading? I do not see it as a diary, which could become repetitive as daily life often is. I do see it as expressing part of an inner world.
How private do you consider it? Clearly it is not private because it is published on the World Wide Web ~ this is where the word 'blog' comes from; it is short for web log. Yet because it is in such a vast arena there feels like a measure of anonymity involved, like ‘How can I be found amongst so many people?’
Why is there a reluctance to write a comment there ~ even anonymously? I feel in writing a blog some deep thoughts are at times revealed. As I first wrote about Ian I was a mess, yet it was like a relief when I had put it out there. So there can be a cost, and reward, in the writing, it is an even greater reward when comments come in via the blog domain.
Back to my starting point: if you noticed that I was not around why didn’t you contact me? If you have missed me why haven’t you told me? If you have hardly spoken to me during the last 2 years why are you starting to now??
Like I said, I am just thinking.
I see the blogging space as a kind of window into my thought life and I feel a little nonplussed when people speak to me about my thought life. An email is almost ok because I can consider my response but I like the tidiness of blog responses, where the blog is written, to give the whole picture to a reader.
When you read a blog what do you think you are reading? I do not see it as a diary, which could become repetitive as daily life often is. I do see it as expressing part of an inner world.
How private do you consider it? Clearly it is not private because it is published on the World Wide Web ~ this is where the word 'blog' comes from; it is short for web log. Yet because it is in such a vast arena there feels like a measure of anonymity involved, like ‘How can I be found amongst so many people?’
Why is there a reluctance to write a comment there ~ even anonymously? I feel in writing a blog some deep thoughts are at times revealed. As I first wrote about Ian I was a mess, yet it was like a relief when I had put it out there. So there can be a cost, and reward, in the writing, it is an even greater reward when comments come in via the blog domain.
Back to my starting point: if you noticed that I was not around why didn’t you contact me? If you have missed me why haven’t you told me? If you have hardly spoken to me during the last 2 years why are you starting to now??
Like I said, I am just thinking.
posted by ElizabethB | 3:19 PM
2 Comments:
JUST THINKING Life is short and I'm getting to the stage where I don't care too much who cares about what I'm thinking. So here publicly the answers to your questions as they apply to me even though I know they were not aimed at me..........1. Why did you not contact me? Answer: because I had the feeling you were not interested in contact.....2.If you missed me, why did you not tell me?...Answer: For the same reason...3. Why did you contact me now?....Answer: Because I talked with someone about the fact that the loss of contact was a sad thing, without blaming you, and they said: Why don't you contact her?..........Maybe these are the answers or similar that other people would give you too. Mindswept
All the enemy needs to do,is, mess up our thinking, confuse us, thus destroy our connection with each other, which scrambles our prayers and hinders access to God. Result: No power....Sweeping once more
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