My new friend Aimee, over at Living, Learning, and Loving Simply tagged me to share the five reasons I blog. So . . .
1.) Blogging keeps me motivated to write regularly for an actual audience who has likes and dislikes and shares them freely.
2.) When I’m writing regularly, I have room to explore ideas that help me grow as a follower of Jesus. And it’s good to share what he’s doing to redeem this lowly life.
3.) If something is helping me grow, it might help someone else grow too. So I share those things here.
4.) I’ve “met” a lot of new people who like to dialogue and think about things like I do.
5.) I can share the everyday parts of life with the people who don’t live right here with me.
Now for the rest of you reading this who have your own blogs, why do you do it?
Ted — I think you do a great job of “making it real,” yourself.
LM — I also live in a big city and sometimes find myself feeling alone. “Reading? You’ve got to be kidding!” 🙂 That’s funny.
Charity — I’m glad you blog too! I love reading your thoughts.
And, Mark, I can’t resist commenting on your reason #4 for blogging: “I live in a small town. There aren’t many people like me here.”
I live in a large town, and there aren’t many people like me here either! 😉 (At a recent playdate I commented that I was re-reading Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” and the other Moms looked at me like I had three heads. Not because I was reading, “Animal Farm,” but because I was reading at all!!)
I love blogland.
Charity, You sound alot like myself on why I blog.
I really do appreciate your blogging. And you bring a nice freshness of creativity to it. And you bring things down to earth, better than I do. And in a good way.
And I think blogging is beneficial by us getting to meet people. A real and good fellowship. We benefit then, from that, being, in Jesus, blessings to each other (amazingly enough, in God’s amazing grace)
Aimee — Thanks for the tag!
Craver — I’m glad you blog too! But why do you do it?
Mark — Funny about the virtual Friends. I’ve sort of felt that way too. Except it would be an awfully boring show to see us all scattered around the country typing!
Ooh. Now there’s a tag I can’t resist.
1) I love the feedback and audience participation.
2) I can’t remember who had the theory of language that a thought doesn’t fully exist until it can be expressed in words (Vygotsky?). But that’s pretty much true for me. If I’m not talking (even in my own head), I’m on autopilot.
3) Did I mention the comments and the community? I don’t mean I like the strokes–although those are nice when they come–I mean I love the interaction.
4) I live in a small town. There aren’t many people like me here. Not a good place for conversation. But talking with you and Craver and L.L. and Al and Ted and Jenn and A Musing and Liz… It’s like my own little virtual Friends sitcom only more appropriate and morally centered.
5) Where else would I be able to make people read an ocassional poem?
Me too. (glad you blog)
Your 5 reasons… they make sense to me.
I’m so glad you blog Charity! 🙂