Stepping into the Great Unknown

There are many reasons I have not started blogging. Like using an Apple computer or owning an IPod (instead of just another mp3 player) I desired to rebel against the social movement. I have hoped all three of these items would go out of style and die before I had to drink the apple Kool-Aid and start revealing my life on the internet. Unfortunately and to no avail, about a year ago my mp3 player died and my sister gave me her old IPod. I fell in love with it as I started running periodically. I actually started running more once I had an IPod. Then this last Christmas I ended up with an Apple laptop. I despised who I was becoming because I was increasingly falling in love with overpriced Apple products. By no means am I propaganding for Apple. Rather I am simply hoping that blogging becomes one of these I despised items that I now love.

Part of the reason that I have avoided blogging is because I am self conscious about my poor writing skills. To thrust the dagger a little deeper I HATE BAD WRITTING! I believe that it is for this reason that I avoid writing at all costs. It is the black plague and I am Mary Lennox. With this in mind I have been confronted with the fact that I do a lot of reading but no integrating what I read. I was confronted by this first by Peter Rollins in his short video

I Deny the Resurrection from Peter Rollins on Vimeo.

and then by Will Willimon in his book "Why Jesus?" and then lastly this morning in Clille's blog Ministry, Theology, Reflections: Overcoming Writer's Block. The confrontation of the fact that I am in information dumpster. I read, read, and then read some more. I get all this information and endlessly keep dumping. I realized that of late I am not interacting with what I am reading and it just passes through me. Furthermore, as Clille said what I read "doesn't translate...to articulated thought" or into action. My hope is that this blog is an outlet for what I encounter and in turn process.

So with that...I am stepping off the cliff into blogosphere...