Why Blog? Why Post? To Whom?
I feel "called" to write. Ok! I'm doing the "calling"! Yes ... I just want to write and no one needs to read my posts, not really. "Need" is the operative word here. We are told "We need do nothing". Need implies something is missing. There is no "need" here since I want to start my thinking from the perspective of completeness. If I never wrote a thing, I'd still be complete.
As I begin this process, I'm not really sure where it will go or if it will go anywhere. My hope is that what I write turns out to be useful for me, others maybe later.
I am a believer. For now, I won't bother defining what that means. It's just a start. As a believer, I want to be Sprit led. I want to listen first and write second. I want to lose control of content and become the conduit for what is being said. In the process of writing, perhaps I'll learn when and how to do such a thing ... be Spirit led that is.
Today is the second of January, 2017. It's a Monday so it follows that it's a National Holiday. For me, every day is now a holiday. Yes, I am blessed and see myself as able to choose what to celebrate every day I wake again. Perhaps THAT is what I should celebrate, for simply being alive is quite the gift. It's not to be taken for granted, assumed, made ordinary. Life in all its vagaries should be celebrated. In this moment, focusing on that celebration is the most important thing I can do. It's just past midday so why not take a gratitude moment and help the balance of the day spring alive with me taking the time to notice?
To be honest, there's a hope that I must own, a hope that something I might write is useful to another. It doesn't really matter if it proves useful to someone else immediately, maybe ever. If it turns out that this simple act of writing is useful to me then that is how others might be touched by it. A healthier me, a me that takes the time to listen and to reflect on what arises within me, is likely a me that is more pleasant to be around. I've never been one to find mediation to come easily so this may be my form of mediation ... silent to what is outside of me and alert to what is within. That's kind of a lofty goal I suspect but one worth aspiring to I think.
Maybe I shouldn't bother with the "why" question at all and just follow my intuition. I want to feel that I'm not writing to get but instead to give. Yet I also know that this kind of writing, listening, reflecting, will be valuable to me. If not, this will become a very short blog rather than a kind of diary that I'd write in a public way. This is just day ONE so I'll have to wait to see if day TWO occurs and if so, when?
Meanwhile, I am a believer. Spirit led is my choice and today I listened.
