So no one has posted a comment on my first blog.
Patiently for the last 22 days I've waited for even one brave soul to make some comment - even if it is from a blogroach. But nothing.
Zilch. Zero. Silence.
Is it because something has entered the blogosphere and inflicted all bloggers with blogstipation?
Is it because it's only blurkers who are reading my blog and you're out there lurking around quietly?
Is it because commenter's are blego-ing and in measuring this bloggers worth that too has been zilch!
What is it? Why?
How do you think this makes me feel?
Is this both the genius of a blog while at the same time the curse of a blog?
If no one comments - a blogger can say whatever they want. Its a bit like the speech you've gone over a hundred times in your head that you'd like to give to your boss, your colleague, your neighbor with the cat (for no reason other than they've got a cat!), or your mother-in-law.
So you say it.
But here's the curse - no one heard it! Or if they did - it wasn't your boss, colleague, neighbor or mother-in-law.
But this brings me back to my blog.
Does silence mean I stop and just return to my day job of saying what I want to say from the pulpit on Sundays ....which come to think of it can often be like my first blog - zilch, zero, silence!
Do you just say something when you're guaranteed a response?
Do you only say something for a response?
Is there value in just saying?
Let me put it this way. "Silence", wrote Stephen Webb, "is constructed not natural."
The zero, zilch, silence my first blog has incurred doesn't mean there hasn't been a response. The response has been the construction of silence.
So I'll keep saying, because in saying something is always constructed.
Parents, lovers, teachers, preachers need to keep saying ...... even in the silence.
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Sub(cyber)space silence. How difficult to endure. Should you pursue those whom you intended as your audience?
You are much like God. He spoke "the Word," yet no one seemed to be listening. One might ask the proverbial question, "If One speaks a Word into the void, but no one hears the Word, was the Word truly uttered?"
But of course it was! Your comment, much like the Word of God spoken over a vast expanse of nothing, carries great power. We have in our possession the same creative power that exists in our Creator, in whose image we are created.
In Genesis, we see that God SPOKE things into being. It was THE WORD that created! Nothing was made that has been made EXCEPT through and by means of THE WORD!
Therefore, whether one hears it or whether one comprehends it or whether one responds to it really is of little consequence to the Truth of its creative existence!
Yet, once said, the Word cannot stop its prophetic, creative course! And so, member of the Clan of Issachar, your word, spoken to a seemingly unresponsive, deaf crowd, has piqued these ears, and will doubtless transform some thought process that will create a new existence--and all because your word can be traced back to its Origin: the Word of our God!
Therefore, speak on! Blog on! Write with boldness! Take thy pen in thy hand! Let the creation begin!
The power of the Word will not be thwarted. It is eternal. PRAISE GOD through JESUS CHRIST, the LIVING WORD in our lives!
is silence a response, in silence is there contemplation? Are we slow to speak quick to listen. Does God reach thru our speaking or our listening
Perhaps no one is reading it and commenting because we didn't know it was out there ;) I just made my very first stop on our church website. You need to get the word out more that you have a blog, and all the other great things on our website.
Then you'll probably have more comments than you know what to do with
Lorie
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