Ok, I'm way slack. Over 2 months! I guess I can't call myself a blogger...
Seriously, I took a bit of an enforced break from a lot of online stuff recently. After looking at some long term relationships I have (or used to have in some cases) and realized that I was neglecting many things IRL (in real life) because of the time and energy I was spending online. Between blogging, Facebook, Twitter, and various things in my feeds in GoogleReader, I was constantly feeding my attention appetite.
I was having a hard time find a way to summarize it until I found Tyler's post about Look at Me mentality. In other words, my online community wasn't about being a part of something, it was one attempt after another to get people to be apart of me.
I've struggled with selfishness for all my life. I mean, I help people and do things for people but a lot of times there is a hidden motive of "people like it when someone does nice things and think well of them." It's not always there, but too often for me to feel comfortable with it any more.
So, I've tried to purposefully redirect the energy I was using online into doing things in the world around me and for the relationships I have offline. With somethings I've been successful. With others, not so much.
One of the decisions I've made is that this blog needs to have a purpose and that purpose can't be so much about me.
Therefore, I'm pleased to announce that, for the foreseeable future, I'm going to dedicate this blog to reviewing books and magazine articles that I've been reading. this ties in nicely with the Thomas Nelson Book Review Blogger program that I have hooked up with. I'll be doing books from them as well as other books I've picked up. I also expect to review some items from Relevant magazine and Collide magazine periodically.
If you are a loyal reader of this blog I have two questions for you:
1) Why? :-) (No really, why?)
2) What are some of the books you have been reading recently?
Peace.
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i just read a new book titled the unlikely disciple recently and just blogged about it. i really liked it.
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