Categories: uncategorized
Date: 20 July 2007 18:27:17
I've just been reading some of Dave's recent posts regarding various awards and lists of the best Christian blogs, and it's got me thinking about why I blog. I must admit, I don't think I'm anywhere near an award-winning standard (unless there's an award for Most Inconsistent Posting Patterns or Most Random Gibberish), but if I were, I'm still not sure any of the categories for the Christian Blog Awards would encompass my ramblings here. Perhaps part of that's because I don't consider this to be exclusively A Christian Blog; I may talk about my relationship with God, aspects of church etc, but I'm just as likely to throw in some random tale of my weekend or a surreal thought that struck me after something or other happened, that have absolutely nothing to do with God or Christianity apart from the fact that I wrote them and I'm a Christian. So I think I can safely say I won't be rubbing shoulders with the great and the good of the Christian blogging scene anytime soon (unless it's at a Wibmeet, he hastily and somewhat cheesily adds...).
So why do I blog? I think there's a variety of reasons, but I guess they all boil down to one single point - I blog because I want to. Sometimes I don't know what to say or I don't know why I've said what I've said or I don't know why anyone would particularly want to read anything I have to say, but I just enjoy the freedom that comes with the internet, a computer and the power of thought. Sometimes I'll share stuff because it's amused me and I think others might be amused; sometimes because it's a form of catharsis; and sometimes just because I have nothing better to do (OK, more likely I do have something better to do but I'm avoiding doing it). If I wasn't blogging, it wouldn't be the end of the world - heck, I survived 28 years without doing it, and you survived many years without reading it - but I guess it would be less fun for me. It may or may not be less fun for you, that's up to you to decide, but certainly I'd find life that little bit less interesting without it.
OK, enough navel-gazing. Time to come out with something profound and insightful...
Today it's been raining so much, even Andie MacDowell would have noticed.