I have decided to call it quits with blogging online. I haven’t had much to say in quite sometime, so this is where the line will be drawn. If anyone knows how I can save my entries to a hard copy, I would appreciate it if you would let me know.
My wife bought me a journal a few years back and I actually wrote some thoughts down in it! I would like to pick that up again for a few reasons. The main reason is the death of my mamaw.
After her death, I, and other family members, went through alot of her things. Among her keepsakes are a few letters from my papaw while he was in the service, one from POW camp! This made me think that I wanted to put thought to paper and one day my kids and grandkids can go through my things and find a handwritten treasure like we found. My handwritten thoughts being read one day after I am gone by my boys and there kids really appeals to me. A sort of eternal life.
Unfortunately for this blog (and it’s readers if there are any left), these thoughts will be private thoughts meant for my family’s eyes only and will no longer be thoughts broadcast on the web for all to see and praise or scrutinize. My voice will be much quiter by the world’s standards, but aren’t those things hardest to find more precious?
Good night and good luck.
Hey, Preach. Don’t be too hasty, man. You’ve got good things to say and thoughts to provoke. At the very least (until you feel the call to come back) don’t be a stranger.
I’ll be sorry to see you go. You are a true gentleman and the blogosphere needs more like you. Good luck yourself and may you realize God’s blessings.
A dios
Hi Preech,
Lookng back over all the many months that you have been blogging, it is amazing to see how far you have moved in your thinking from your posts of even this time last year! Wo would have dreamed that a blog that started out as SimChurch would finish up here? Of course the christians weep and wail and express sorrow, but only because they are destablised by the fact that you have had the courage to openely question and confront their myths and see them for what they are.
I wish you well as your “great awakening” takes you “further in and higher up”, I salute your integrity, and I know that you and truth will find each other because no other outcome is possible.
All the best,
Jon
Like many people I started blogging as an outlet of personal expression with an agenda in the back of my mind that people would read it (and like it, and tell me how good of a writer I was, etc…) I really don’t care anymore, but I can’t stop writing. I do it for me, not that I go back and read many posts. It helps me to get a grasp on my experiences, thoughts, and emotions. Writing about them enables me to face them, assimiliate or reject them, and to move on. Whether anyone ever read anything else again, I would still write, although my desire to do so wanes at times. I hate long hand. I don’t like my penmanship and the cramps in my hand. I’ll print these posts one day or save them to a disk. I’d like to think my kids might read my thoughts one day and know it’s ok to be screwed up and uncertain. No matter.. it’s been fun. Maybe I’ll see you in the flesh from time to time.