Jesus Geek

Today my daughter sang at church for the first time.  It was awesome to see her up there singing to God.

I have no pictures or no video of the event.  Why?  I experienced it.  Rather than look back at pictures or video I experienced it without the interference of any electronic devices.

These days so many people want to record their lives.  They think they’re sharing what happened when in fact all their doing is providing their viewers with a cheap replay of what happened.

You see, our imaginations and the memories we have paint a much more vivid picture than any video or photo can.  We can remember how the room smelled, what the temperature was in the room and most importantly we can recall the emotions we felt while we were there.

When you’re taking pictures or shooting video you get preoccupied with with the technology you’re using to store your memories when, in fact, you’re failing to record memories where they will be the most vivid: in your mind.

The title says it all: blogging every day is hard.  I really admire people who can churn out four or five posts a day.  I struggle just putting one together.

Right now I have 19 draft posts sitting in my blog waiting for me to take action on them.  Some just have a title and a brief summary of what I plan to write.  Others are about halfway finished and yet other are almost there.  There they sit, haunting me like the ghost of Christmas past.

Since I started my “Advent Challenge” I’ve written five posts.  This will make the sixth and I’ve thought to myself, “I must be nuts trying to write a blog post every day!”  This is especially difficult because I’m producing a daily podcast right now too.  That means that there are two daily requirements I’ve placed upon myself.  I must be crazy.

I know that this exercise will only strengthen my writing abilities.  Post will come easier and ideally I’ll have articles waiting in the can to be released which will actually relieve some of the pressure of having to write every day.

Until then I’ll continue to fret over getting a post up every day.  Hmm…I’ve exceeded my minimum number of words for this post.  Maybe I’ll amend my personal guidelines so that some words can count towards future posts.