This blog has had some false starts. I finally figured out why: I was being perfectionist and prideful about the kind of content I would share on it. I had the idea that I was going to post well-worked-out ideas about how to think about, embrace, and be fruitful in the work God has for us in life. But I sat there not knowing what to post first, feeling frustrated and overwhelmed when I thought about this project.
Whenever I feel that way, it means I need to pray and think...to discern what God really calling me to, and what is holding me back. What I discovered is that a need a platform for working out those ideas, not a pulpit from which to preach them. I need a blog more like what Merlin Mann of 43Folders described in a recent post:
"Remember that your blog is only incidentally a publishing system or a public website. At its heart, your blog represents the evolving expression of your most passionately held ideas. It’s a conversation you’re holding up with the world and with yourself — a place where you can watch your own thoughts take different shapes and occasionally surprise you with where they end up…”
So, I have deleted some of my previous posts, and changed the blog subtitle from "Peace, purpose, and productivity" (which seemed to imply that I already arrived--the blogger's version of an overrealized eschatology) to "Pursuing productivity from God, for God, and with God" (which, I hope, implies that the blog is part of a pursuit in progress.) I plan to use the blog as a way to pursue a passion God has given me to be more faithful in everyday tasks, more peaceful in adversity, and more trustworthy in my relationships and commitments. May God bless this pursuit, this blog, and this weak Christian.
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