Many question the value of having a blog, after all there are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Many question putting your thoughts and feelings onto a medium where everyone in the world can be privy to them. I think ultimately we, as bloggers, have to be honest and admit that our blogs are for ourselves. Yes some strive to share pertinent news of world events and offer great social, political and or religious observations and treatise, but in the end it’s really about ourselves. I truly believe that no matter how justified we strive to be in our postings there is an underlying self-serving and narcissistic tendency where in we hope that we will have readers and responders thereby affirming not only the worth of our blog but more importantly our self worth.
Yet even in this depraved and fallen nature of ours there is often light and love and hope. And in the seeming vastness of this world the Internet can draw together people who would otherwise never know one another. A couple of months ago I posted a tribute to my father-in-law Tom. An old friend of his from prior to 1950 must have been “googling” his name and found my site. “Randy” has been kind enough to write to us and sent us some old pictures that he had. I know my wife and my mother-in-law have been amazed by this voice from the past. It’s trully a blessing that would not have happened if it hadn’t been for my prideful desire. Obviously God can work good with anything.
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