Pondiferous

26Jun07

So, I’m pondering.

I’m pondering this blog – am I really going to use it? Is it time to start blogging again? I have really wanted to get aaronklinefelter.com up and running with my own hosting package (through a friend) and running WordPres via that – instead of relying on the hosting foibles of someone else. Reason being is that I have 817 posts in Blogger that I have no way of accessing (publicly, atleast – I can still get them from the back-end and I have a copy saved locally). I really want to bring them over and have them and my new postings all in the same place, but I’m not quite sure how….

I’m also pondering the nature of my blog – I quit blogging for 2 reasons: 1) Blogger broke. 2) Work. How do I put this tactfully…. there was some tension around the fact that I blog… not just what I said, but the nature of blogging in general. I decided that I just didn’t want to mess with it, so I stopped. Perhaps I’m a wuss, perhaps I’m wise (good chance I’m both in fits and starts). Well, its summer now and I’ve been wanting to get back into the swing of things. But I’m full of questions…. Since I will invariably express my views theologically, socially, politically, emotionally what does that mean for those to whom I am accountable (be that for income or other)? Certainly I will endeavor to be respectful and honorable in all I do and say – but oft times it is the unintended that offends more than the overt. I’m not sure what to do with that.

There are 2 prevailing reasons why I’ve wanted to get back into the spiritual discipline of blogging. (And, yes, I really believe it is – or can be – a spiritual discipline) 1) We’re about to have a baby. Sarah is due in less than a month and our little family of 3 is about to become 4. We’re going from all pink, all the time to trucks and cars and the like. We are having a boy. Name… TBA. (And, yes, Cloey plays with trucks and cars and doesn’t only have pink… but on balance…)

2) We are in the discernment process of the possibility of planting a church. I need a space to ponder out loud about this process. What does it look like? How do we do it? Where do we start? What am I reading, thinking, praying, dreaming, hearing, seeing, regretting, fearing, hoping, expecting, believing, imagining, pondering? So many questions! It would be helpful to me if I had a space where I could process this stuff – out loud – with the option and hope of feedback. Connections and collaborations both globally and locally – with folks on the outside looking in and those who may engage with us in this planting/birthing process.

So there you have it, a post about posting, a blog about blogging.

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