Compartmentalizing

My friend Carrie recently published a blog about a verse from Philemon, "I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ." (verse 6)

I have been thinking lately about starting a separate blog pertaining to matters of spirituality. I have been coming up with names and possible topics and so on, encouraged by different friends I have who write of such things. Blogging is one of my favorite things to do and it comes quite naturally to want to share with you what is going on not only in our exterior lives but in our hearts.

One reason I want it to be separate is simply because I like that kind of order. It is often missing in my thought process, so if I can pretend to have it by having blogs of different topics, I'm that much closer! Plus, in the event that I become one of those "famous bloggers"with hundreds of loyal followers who get recommended by people like Dustin, I will prefer the blog be a little distanced from all my family stuff. (Yes, that was rather tongue-in-cheek. Please laugh. :)

But other reasons creep in as well. I think it's because I'm a fairly newish (as of May 2006) Christian...I have many friends and family members who probably don't "get" what it is we're about up here, other than spending a lot of time at church now. :) I think there's an expectation that we have joined a church in order to fit into a community, have lots of built-in friends, and have a place to go with the kids. Also, I have several very good friends who are atheists, whom I fear will think I'm trying to change them, along with the mutual understanding that I will hope they convert anyway (yeah, you know it's true), and how that's kind of paradoxical. Plus, there's the embarrassment factor...like, if you really knew just how much I view my life as the consequence of God's active hand in it, you will find me foolish.

I don't want to feel that way. The Lord does not call us to live this way, as mentioned above in Philemon 6. So I hereby decompartmentalize the future of my blogs, and will tag each post accordingly, and you can read them or skip them. :)