Blog Slumps

Anyone familiar with blogs knows there is a period when you can't write enough...everything that happens around you presents topics, people connect well with what you are writing and you find the process enjoyable. However, there are also times when life seems a little mundane, things seem confusing no matter how you write them, and your hobby just becomes more laborious than you first expected. Add to that critiques/comments you receive from others, and sometimes you just don't feel like writing.

I'm in one of those phases.

Carnivorous Caribou isn't going anywhere, I'll get back to posting. But it may not be right away. In case you're keeping score here are some reasons for my blog abscense:

The holidays. We've been having a blast with our kids this season. By far, this has been the most enjoyable Christmas in my brief tenure as a father. There have been far too many memorable moments with family and friends to have my face buried in a laptop.

My Mother. We had a bit of a scare the week before Christmas as she underwent a serious procedure due to concerns about cancer. Praise God the surgery went very well, and the results were non-cancerous! (Of course, we'd praise God had the results been different too.)

Lots of Discouragment. There is just a lot in Christendom that has me down right now. Not here at Grace, but more general things, visible across our national landscape. Quite honestly, it's made me rather cynical/critical recently. I've posted before that I don't want to become "that guy," so I thought it best not to comment at all.

Shopping. I do have one cool post (in my humble opinion) coming that compares a recent shopping experience with the "corporate church worship experience." I still want to produce the post, but so far, it's not coming out right. Can you get writer's block if you're really not that good of a writer anyway?

Comments. Not here on the blog, but a couple of comments outside of the blog just discourage me. I'm weak, I'm frail, and I let people's opinions sway me far too often. But I plan to learn from those comments, adapt and hopefully do better than ever.

New Blog Coming. Blogger updated their system and claims to offer some pretty cool things. To be honest, I have no idea what they even mean by some of their functions, so I want to play around a little and see what I can do. In the meantime, I working on a new blog concept that I can't wait to develop. It's more driven by the Text, and I hope it will be edifying.

I John. It's not too early to be thinking about next fall's preaching series, and since we'll be in I/II/III John, I've been reading through it a lot. I have this vision that the children could be learning the same thing as mom and dad in the service, we'll see how that goes. But until then, I'm having a blast studying I John. (It's very hard to preach Joshua and not want to make many cross references to I John in the process. I have to save that for later!)

Pharisees. Believe it or not, I've been studying the pharisees lately. I'm nearly finished examining every passage in Scripture that refers to the pharisees or where Jesus interacts with them. I'm starting to compile the observations and finding many correlations to our culture. I've had less time to blog because this has taken up more time as well.

I still desire that the function of this blog be that it honor and glorify Christ. Like it's a good idea to regularly take inventory of our life, I'm running inventory of this blog.

Semper Reformanda!