I just finished reading I should say skimming an article (” Personal Blogging, Privacy, & Keeping It Real.”) posted on Mrs. FussyPants.
What caught my eye was the last part of the title “…Keeping It Real.”
I have wondered sometimes while reading blogs if people only post the joys of life and if so why not the trials?
I have started a handful of blogs in the past and I must admit that I have never stuck with any of them because of my fear of being too honest. I do not want to “sugar coat” my life. It has it’s moments of joy, goodness, kindness, and mercy for sure but it also has moments of hurt, pain, suffering, and anxiety.
Since I was a little girl, I have always wrote letters to “God”. Yes, it’s odd. Many people write to their “journal” or “diary”. I understand it and have tried many times when I was younger I tried but it never stuck and slowly I developed a prayer-letter writing style where I wrote letters to “God”. Over the years, I have kept the letters and I can look back and see how God has used me for HIS glory. I have to add that a lot of the entries were full of selfish desires or feelings sometimes asking for God’s guidance, other times just complaining or “venting” about life. I know that my letters to “God” are personal and no one knows about them except my spouse.
I understand that blogging allows the world to see a side of a person or many sides of a person and it’s up to the writer to decide what is ok to give to the world and what is private or not for the world to see. I know there are some things I will never tell my children nor even my mother about my life I reserve those things ( reflections, thoughts, and emotions) for God and my spouse.
I hope to show the joys of my life and the trials of my life (generally speaking) on this blog. I am pretty positive I will leave out some joys and some trials but I hope to find harmony with my blog just as I am finding with my home. Just as I do not eat sugar all the time I do not want my blog to be an unrealistic portrait of my life and thoughts. I instead hope for this blog to be a bit salt and pepper. Salt being the joys of life and Pepper being the trials of life.
If you now blog, I ask you to consider letting your readers see the real you and not blogging about the you, you want people to see or you think people what to see.
If you are not currently blogging about your life but enjoy reading them I urge you to consider blogging. Just as you enjoy reading others perhaps someone will enjoy reading yours.
