Eleven Month Blog Sabbatical

My blog probably doesn't even show up on your radar anymore.  And that's ok.  Enough people have asked me to start blogging again in the past few weeks, that I took some time and gave it some serious thought and prayer.

Eleven months.  That's quite a blog break.  Not only did I not post on my blog in the last eleven months, but I rarely read other blogs.  I actually rarely read much of anything (at least not at the rate that I was reading).

I think I stopped blogging because I needed space to listen.  In the beginning, blogging served as a way to sharpen my listening skills.  It was a way to actively practice listening to God and then respond.  But somewhere along the line, it simply became me writing about whatever the hell I had read or seen or heard or talked about recently.  And while reading, seeing, hearing, and talking are some of the ways that God speaks, I'm not sure I was really listening as much as I was simply responding.  Blogging became an out pouring of my head and not my heart.

So I've taken some time to re-find the heart part.  I've been doing a lot of listening over the past eleven months.  Sometimes I've been quite quiet, even with people who want to hear my response.  I've been trying to learn to respond with what God is whispering to my soul rather than the carefully constructed arguments that I have in my head.

I'm not sure I'm good at that...I'm not sure it matters.  I am sure that the last eleven months have changed me in very good ways.  They've made me a deeper person, they've taught me to trust, and I'm listening again.

So I'm going to reengage with the blogosphere.  And I'm going to start reading again.  I'm going to listen and respond.  I hope you're reading along.

Comments

[lauren]

and.....he's back :) you know what i'd like to see next? a blog begun by the wife!

[Adam Malliet]

Google Reader waited patiently for 11 long months and was all over it for your return

[Art Bucher]

Welcome back to the bloggosphere. I was gonna say I missed you but since I get to see you in person every so often and hear your actual voice, well, this blog is just like icing on the cake.