Can't believe it's February already!!! Time seems to have it's way of slipping through your fingers before you even have a conscious sense that it's passing by.
Anyhow. I haven't written for a long while. Not that I have the intention to write something inspiring, but I think that typing a blog puts any writer of some sort in a different perspective. The style of deliverance is quite different might I say from at least in comparison to my personal journaling.
These days I've been pondering on the idea of community. Community of a secular world sense may simply mean a group of people of the same interest gravitating together. How about the Christian concept of community? (I'm refraining to go back to Henri Nouwen...as of now).
Been thinking occasionally about "private vs. public" and how it relates to community. To be honest, I don't know what I'm trying to type here...don't even have a title for this post yet :P Probably this is one of my mental dumps...ink just simply was spilled and it somehow formed letters and words HAHA. Okay. Back to my mental dumping. So you see...this randomness of writing is what you'll see in my journal - not like you'll ever get the chance to read it. Anyhow, this is the way I'd write in my journal, i.e. jumping back and forth, with no central theme, only to express my gratefulness or grumblings of life events. Prayers to God would also be seen in large proportions, but also intertwined throughout. The idea of it to me in journaling is to write what's exactly on your mind...allowing the words, the composition of sentences express your emotions as raw as it can be, and it creates this natural intimacy (and as you see...a lot of run on sentences too :P).
On the other hand, if I were to start typing a blog or even writing something for the public to see, the reader would sense formality. I would describe and explain so that it seems less of me talking to myself. Much effort will also be put in addressing certain things and relating things (though...it's really like free typing for me most of the time). Things are kept simple, details will be kept when I feel it's not necessary or edifying.
I'm still finding the line that draws a balance of public and private. And please someone enlighten me...how does community play a part in it? To what degree can brothers and sisters be completely open in confessing sins? If discernment or wisdom is needed...how have our hearts been opened to God? How should appropriateness be discerned for His glory while we testify His works in our lives?
So...no conclusion for me, but I have a lot of questions :P I hope this was not a random read...or a waste of time.
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