Why I Don’t Write Daily
I’m friends with internationally known writers and speakers. Their blogs are hotbeds for Christian discussion and debate over what it means to be a follower of Christ in the 21st or any century. None of my blogs have ever solicited that sort of attention. Part of the reason my be that I’m not that great of a writer or at least blogger. It may be that my target niche is a select audience that for the most part is uninterested in blogs in general. It may be that my blog is too specifically linked to my name and that my name doesn’t mean squat in a personality based culture. One observation I’ve made along those lines is that the post modern Christian tends to follow personalities or names rather than the more modern custom of denomination or movement. While the generation before that followed institutions and local parishes, the modern movement followed organizations and denominations that were structured more like the business world. The post modern person follows authors or schools of thought endorsed by personalities more so than a denomination or an institution. Think about how many people are molded and shaped by Don Miller, Len Sweet, Francis Chan, John Piper, etc etc without belonging to those persons respective denominations or theological schools of thought.
Back to the point. I’m sure all of the above are factors playing into by low readership numbers. The other factor is that when people do happen to stumble onto this blog they notice the scarce number of posts. I don’t blog daily or weekly for that matter. The truth of the matter is that I don’t have very much to say. I’ve got endless stories and travels tales. I’ve got some God encounters and some things that I’m sorting through and to be honest I’m not that comfortable with putting it all out there. For one reason I’m sorting out a lot of it and the blog world is more about conclusions and opinions than it is discovery. Another reason is that mediated communication isn’t relationship. I don’t know my readers and as such a blog is like writing on a piece of paper and posting it on a phone pole. Everyone is free to read it and come up with their own meaning because they lack the context that only relationship affords. Blogs are more individualistic than communal. They are ripe with self glorification and meditation. Frankly, there is nothing so amazing about my life that it requires me to daily inform you of my day to day doing and being.
One pitfall I want to avoid is over spiritualizing the minute details of my life. I believe that God belongs just as much in the simple as He does the complicated. I love the mindset of the Celts and the mystics. That God is in all events if we notice Him. Yet I can’t help but feel a little dumb when I’m making up the meaning of of my life and not allowing it to flow from union with Christ.
This is a long over wrought way of saying that as of now I can’t, won’t and am wholly unable to blog on a consistent basis. Which makes me wonder why blog at all?
