Yes, it’s true.  My blog is back after a good 2+ years away.  I’m not quite sure how I feel about this yet and I’m not quite sure I have much to say.  The reality is, I’ve been verbally blank for, at least, the last 6 months.  I have few thoughts beyond “mmmm….peanut butter” or “Drupal sucks, it should be better”.  My mind hasn’t been in the gutter or soaring to new hights…it’s pretty much been sitting in an Ikea desk chair staring at a screen.

ThinkingWhile I don’t know what I’ll write about, I know why I’m writing.  I want to start thinking again. Back when I blogged frequently, my brain was functioning at a higher level.  I had new ideas, new thoughts, new opinions.  I didn’t write because I wanted to get them out….I had them because I wrote.  There’s something about a consistent writing habit that makes the brain move and operate in ways that it doesn’t normally.  It forces you to put ideas to paper (or keyboard) which means they have to be formed into words and sentences and paragraphs…all with a lucid point.   I think this is why Journalling is so talked about in Christian circles:  It’s the written word that makes spirituality, the un-seen, visible.  It’s thereputic but it’s also inspiring.

In the past, my blogs have mostly been a venue for bitching about the world, the church, or pop-culture.  It made alot of people upset and alot of people uncomfortable.  Those topics caused me to stress-out when people disagreed, but they also help me GET the stress out in a way that, honestly, is currently destroying me.  Keeping that inside makes you sick…and I’m tired of feeling sick.

I’m always passionate about the right and wrong paths that the Christian church in America is taking.  But I think, in some ways, I’m beyond that.  Not because I’ve gotten older or more mature…but because I see The Church (in general, yet not specifically) as a total mess which is beyond repair.  So, while I’m sure I’ll complain about and jab at Christianity, I have a feeling it will be with less vigor…kinda like a Mike Tyson who would rather just eat a cheeseburger than fight Holyfield.

So, here’s to blogging and it’s remedy for the soul.  May it (this time) live long and prosper.

(oh, and yes, this is a Wordpress blog for any nerds that care….)