So, how many of you have blogs out there? I don't really know, to be honest I am not really much of a blog reader. I only read one consistently, one less so, though every time I do I think I should read it consistently, and one even less so, which I feel bad about. I am told by people that there are about a billion or so out there, which means a lot of people are typing and a lot of people are reading. I suppose that those are good things, but...at the same time how many of us are typing when we should talking? These are the type of questions I sometimes struggle with, after all I spend my Sunday morning partly in a time where I talk and everyone else sits a listens, unless they fall asleep, play Sudoku, or just stare into nothingness, and then I decide that for my Lenten spiritual discipline I will write 40 blogs, an outlet where the equivalent of I talk and you listen occurs through the power of the internet. The internet which allows the following to happen...
United States 1350 views
Germany 47 views
Russia 29 views
Netherlands 25 views
New Zealand 24 views
Israel 22 views
Malaysia 10 views
United Kingdom 8 views
Belarus 4 views
Ukraine 4 views
I have a friend who is working with a church in New Zealand so I know who that is, and I have friends who are becoming missionaries in the Netherlands, but Belarus? Ukraine? Israel? I have no clue who finds interest in the things in my mind in those places. And the fact that there have been 1350 views from the US is staggering to me, I mean, sure at least a few of those are me, and at least 40 or so is my wife, but I had one post that was viewed 70+ times. This is not to blow so kind of horn or something, Mary has several thousand more views than I do, and there are plenty of blogs out there, or so I'm told, that have millions of hits, some each day, I am fully aware of my small corner of the blog world, but the simple fact that I have a corner at all is immensely humbling. I really do appreciate whoever is reading this blog in the UK and Russia and Germany and each country and each state.
In my first blog in this series I wondered why people read the ramblings of this mess of a man. My friend Dan told me it was because I am willing to say I am a mess of a man, if that's true I wonder what it says about us all. How we are willing to accept people if they are real, and how devastated we are when we are deceived by the people we trust [Hello, Mr. Blade Runner, Mr Biker, and on and on].
It's weird in a way, when I started typing I had a whole different plan, one about how I have several posts that I have written and haven't published because I am just not sure if I am ready for the repercussions of them being read. But, then again, if I am a mess maybe I should just let the cards fall where they may, if I really believe something, really think it aligns with what Jesus would have me listen, believe, follow, should the repercussions concern me at all? So, what holds me back? Losing those people who care enough to read my thoughts.
Maybe tomorrow will be a day without fear, but then again, maybe not.
Peace and Love,
Pastor K
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