Believe it or not, I’m not much of a blogger. My mother set me up with a blog when I heartlessly decided to abandon her to live in Japan for a year. I blog for family and a few loyal friends and I read family blogs and check a few friend’s blogs now and then, but that’s because I don’t write many letters and it’s easier for everything to be in the same place. My mother is more aware of the fads that run within the ‘hip’ blog crowd, like such things are mims or whatnot. Yet I do follow a few blogs that I randomly came across (okay, so my mother sent them to me). One (If God is Love) had a post today that I appreciated. It happens to be a blatant rip from another blog. I feel a bit of a cheat doing the same thing, but I like it, so I’ll reference a reference to a blog. At least I’m not filling your inboxes with ten-year-old myths that just won’t die.
The following is from Prodigal Kiwi(s) Blog.
"Fear turns one inward, away from the “other.” Fear imprisons. Fear resists hope and life. Fear prevents us from knowing and being known deeply. Fear resists interdependency and it closes us to loving and being loved. Fear inhibits creativity and stunts growth. Fear doesn’t see opportunities. Fear risks nothing.
Love, on the other hand frees, love enlivens. Love holds the other as they are, and lets others hold us as we are. Love is vulnerable and open to others. Love says, “yes” to God’s desire to love us, and in saying “yes” we are able in turn to love God, others and ourselves.
God is love. To “image” God, we love."
Poking around his blog I found some other good stuff (like this). I think I’ll have to add him to the list of random blogs I read. Could I be in denial? No! There’s still a part of me that thinks I never got kicked out of No Evil-Mail club I started in high school. Oh, how we never know how we will change.
Man, that Kiwi has some good stuff. Check out this post on practical theology. Has anyone heard of it? http://prodigal.typepad.com/prodigal_kiwi/2007/06/on_earth_as_it_.html#more
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I'm not sure you have much to fear. Bloggers are an unusual demographic—and I don't think I have any idea what that demographic is. It doesn't seem, though, to be the same as the Myspacing web-teen that has never heard of Snopes and really hopes that if they forward this email to 10 people they'll have good luck for a year. Mainly they seem to be either progressive or unemployed journalists, plus the amorphous cloud of stridently, rigidly, and unceasingly opinionated political busybodies that orbits them. And since you don't belong to either, I don't think you need to let having a blog bother you. :) (If it makes you feel any better, maybe you can also print each post out on fake vellum and bury it in the backyard, or put it in a bottle and throw it down a manhole, or any of the other extremely inefficient but highly romantic forms of communication I used to love as a kid.)
